Professional Behavior

Safety professionals should be professionals, and not generalists who accept tasks that should be allocated to other specialists in their specific fields. For the profession of safety to be respected, safety practitioners have to practice pure safety on a management level and not become manipulators of injury statistics to make the company s safety efforts look good. Much harm can be done to the image of the profession if its members do not act according to the ASSE Code of Professional Conduct. 

Here is an example of a young person s entry into the safety profession that was sent to me. (Minor changes were made to protect the identity of the writer.) 

There is a lot to learn at the plant and I m excited. I just finished my first week there. The safety manager who was hired in with me is a big behavioral safety advocate and these questions spurred from me listening to him. 

Is behavioral safety good The way it is set up here is they have SUBO cards (Safe, Unsafe Behavior Observation) and they write down either safe or unsafe acts that workers find. They are forced to do at least 1 or 2 a month. I m just afraid that it turns into a worker catching another worker doing something wrong. 

How do I go about teaching management that safety is not everyone s responsibility I m still a little confused by that part actually. I understand it but not enough to explain why it is true to another person. Maybe you could make it clearer to me  

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Preamble. Engineering is an important and learned profession. The members of the profession recognize that their work has a direct and vital impact on the quality of life for all people. Accordingly, the services provided by engineers require honesty, safety and welfare. In the practice of their profession, engineers must perform under a standard of professional behavior which requires adherence to the highest principles of ethical conduct on behalf of the public, clients, employers and the profession. 

She argued that many of the difficulties faced by women in the workplace—difficulties reinforced by the small numbers—arise from discord between the schema for acceptable behavior of women and the schema describing appropriate professional behavior in an organization. 

At times, patients want therapists to choose the physician they will see. If their insurance allows that freedom, we are happy to comply. We maintain relationships with different types of physicians, each with different strengths. At times, two psychiatrists may be equally qualified but have different areas of expertise. We hope that our patients benefit from onr detailed knowledge of possible referral sources. We try to match the patient with the physician by thinking about the personality of the patient and the physician s interview style. In addition, we often offer to call our colleague, to say that we are sending a specific patient. We hope that this process communicates to the patients that they can expect the same kind of caring, professional behavior from our respected colleague that they have come to expect from us. We find that these personal relationships provide a safe, calm context in which patients can consider their treatment options. 

Ethics—Maintain professional behavior in the practice of health services delivery and maintain the confidentiality of clients in all settings. 

Declining an offer graciously is standard professional behavior. Respond to the offer quickly. You have to draw a clear line about when you have enough data to accept a job or decline it. Once you ve made that decision, follow through. 

Hazard reporting should be an ongoing activity. However, beyond that, it s a professional behavior that every employer should desire and expect from their employees. Some questions to ask in evaluating this item include ... 

Rules for professional conduct are contained in the COM, Section 2, Part B, "Professional Behavior," Items addressed include formality of activities, distractions, work environment, and courtesy. The evaluation team observed personnel in the Central Control Room and found they were conducting their activities in a professional manner. Based on the above, we find that the criterion to establish rules for professional conduct is acceptably satisfied. 

Requirements for training operations personnel on the access policy, professional behavior in the control room, and operation of plant equipment shall be addressed by the operator training program. The review of the operator training program is addressed in SER Section 10.2 "Training."... 

At the time of shutdown, central control room requirements, such as professional behavior, monitoring the main control boards, control room operator ancillary duties, the operation of control room equipment, and access to the central control room, did not reflect commercial industry standards. 

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