Comparative Ethics DVD Rental (3 PDHs)

This course, presented by Dave Ingram during the 2014 WVSPS Convention, covers the ethical considerations of business and professional practice of concern to surveyors. Attempts are made to impose ethics on surveyors and engineers from several directions including legal, professional and moral. An understanding of the implications of each is important. Additionally, surveyors find themselves interacting with other professions on a daily basis where an understanding of their ethical obligations is critical to a positive outcome for projects that require input from many different sources. However, it is frequently observed that priorities of different professions may be in conflict with each other. To focus thoughts for the class, the workshop will begin with a review of ethical guidelines that surveyors are expected to adhere to. After a discussion of the history of ethics for surveyors and an examination of modern ethical guidelines for surveyors, ethical guidelines for several other professions will be examined with an eye towards areas of commonality as well as areas of conflict. Some of these groups will be closely related professions to surveyors while others will be examined not for their areas of common interest, but rather to see what we can learn from them. Finally, the workshop will conclude with a guided discussion time where the class will discuss what ethics guidelines should be included in a code of ethics for surveyors and why these are important for professionals to keep in mind and adhere to. DVD Rental System This DVD is a rental only and must be returned to the WVSPS Administrative Office. After your order is completed, you will be shipped the DVD, an instruction sheet and quiz to verify you have completed the course. Upon receiving the returned DVD and quiz, the WVSPS Admin Office will send your PDHs.