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ENGG942 Professional Practice

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Professional Practice (ENGG942)

   

Added on  2020-05-03

ENGG942 Professional Practice

   

University Of Wollongong

   

Professional Practice (ENGG942)

   Added on 2020-05-03

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Ethics: Engineering Professional Practice 1ETHICS: ENGINEERING PROFESSIONAL PRACTICENameCourse: Professor’s NameInstitutionCityDate
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Ethics: Engineering Professional Practice 2Ethics in the Engineering Professional PracticeIntroductionEthics in the organization are principles set by an organization management system to guide inits smooth running without being bias to any individual. The code of ethics set determines theemployee's discipline and tolerated behavior in an organization. The higher the ethical standardsthe more the workers are encouraged to meet the level. In the engineering professional practice,a code of ethics for occupational health and safety is vital in ensuring the social, physical andmental well-being of the workers, employers, and the public is fully protected and satisfied. Theoccupation health safety covers on prevention of injuries and other work-related diseases, and theactions to be undertaken in case an impairment resulting from working conditions (Grammeno,2009). The engineering professional is a very interesting career as it entails the creation of, stateof the art structures that meet top quality designs, inventions of great scientific and technologicalprojects that help in making the world a better place and improves the work processes andprocedures. Literature reviewIn the Promotional Framework for Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 2006 held atGeneva by International Labor Office, they recognized the need to protect workers againstinjuries, sickness, diseases which arise from their workplaces. The International Labor officeconveyed that there is need to reduce and eliminate the occupational injuries and diseases whichlead to poor productivity in work, lack of motivation among workers to achieve high yields, thepoor relationship between the workers and employers as well as loss of life and ability to workamong employees (Saul, Kinley, & Mowbray, 2014).According to Quinlan, Bohle, & Lamm (2010), a good organizational management systemshould ensure the occupational health safety policy is a key principle in order to achieve
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Ethics: Engineering Professional Practice 3maximum productivity. In engineering occupation, health safety is very vital as the sectorinvolves being exposed to dangerous work activities that can cause injuries and death to theworkers as well to the public as a whole. The Occupational Health and safety policy in theorganization should involve the worker's information contribution, assessment of the areas oractivities that can pose a risk to the workers and the general public, review and monitor thepolicies effectiveness and the actions or compensation to be carried out in case such an incidentoccurred (Reese, 2008).In engineering sector work hazards are of different categories ranging from; lifting, mechanical,pressure, explosion, fire, falling, noise, and sound, temperatures, electrical, harmful and toxicgases, radiation, chemical, biological, automation, ergonomic, psychological factors andconfinement in an enclosed structure (Friis, 2015). All these are hazards that are to be consideredwhile implementing an occupational health and safety policy. The hazards are bound to affect thevarious stakeholders involved that are the; workers, employers, the public, the regulatory andgoverning authorities and insurance or compensation providers.According to Barnett-Schuster (2008), the occupational health and safety are important inimproving the economy through minimizing the costs spent during compensation of injured orsick workers, the cost resulting from time lost from absent employees and cost related fromdamage caused by the hazards. Legal matters are also improved through provision of workers'rights to work at safe conditions while providing detailed statements and rules on compensationand action to be taken in case of a hazard. The occupational health and safety also ensure moreemployee responsibility and protection of morals and ethics in the sector (Barnett-Schuster,2008).
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