Duty to act in professional manner and abide by standards expected by community

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A registered professional engineer—

(a)

must act with honesty, integrity and in a professional manner, and

(b)

must act towards the person for whom the professional engineer is doing professional engineering work, and carry out the work, in good faith, and

(c)

must not unreasonably discriminate against a person or organisation, and

(d)

must not knowingly act or enter into conduct that could bring, or tend to bring, the profession of engineers into disrepute, and

(e)

must take all reasonable steps to protect the health and safety of the community when carrying out professional engineering work, including by doing the following—

(i)

identifying hazards,

(ii)

assessing risks,

(iii)

implementing appropriate strategies to manage risk, and

(f)

must take all reasonable steps to manage and avoid foreseeable adverse impacts of professional engineering work on the natural environment.

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9 Duty to act in professional manner and abide by standards expected by community