Engineering Ethics Code

Carol has been working for a local oil company that has been in operation for over a decade. She has been able to establish a strong and a trusting relationship with John who is the manager of the local facility. The company has adopted Carol recommendations of the environmental regulations so that it can solidify its reputation to the society at large. Carol has been promoted to be the company consulting an engineer. The company receives petrochemical products via the pipeline which it blends them for resale to other companies. John the manager tells carol about an incident that happened some time back it was found that the company has lost over 10,000 gallons of chemicals that were being leaked through the pipes that have corroded. After some sampling was carried out it was found out that there was no surface or underground pollution within 400 feet the wells were capped and the press never came to learn about it.

In this scenario, John and Carol owe the society a professional conduct. LOS A (1 & 2) says that the licensees should be in the performance of the responsibility for the public welfare. They should be protected from any harmful effect due to the operation of the company (Harris, Pritchard & Rabins, 2013). This means that there should be a survey conducted in order to safeguard the society health, life, and property. The FE ethic codes arises in LOS A (4) whereby the manager and the engineer Carol should be truthful about the eventful happening that could have an impact on the environment later by releasing a statement and the findings of the survey carried out to assess the damage caused by the leakage (Harris, Pritchard & Rabins, 2013). Mr. John broke this code by not releasing the information to the society by choosing to be quite about it.

 

Reference

Harris, C. E, Pritchard, M. S & Rabins, M. J. (2013). Engineering Ethics: Concepts and Cases. Retrieved from http://implicit.che.utah.edu/Teaching/4203/FE-Ref-9.0_Web.v2.pdf