The Ontario Professional Planners Institute has outlined a standard of practice in which professional planners part of OPPI have certain rights and responsibilities. These guidelines are outlined in the Professional Code of Practice and focus on promoting higher professional standards by improving ethics and practice (OPPI, n.d.). The Professional Code of Practice is the basis for planning practice. The CIP outlines its core values which focus on addressing public interests and values. The values are standards that planners must consider when taking on professional planning responsibilities. The CIP is also broken down into three categories; planner’s responsibility to the public, to clients/employers, and their responsibility to other members …show more content…
At my last co-op placement, I worked as land development student for a private residential development company. I was given the opportunity to work with many planners from consulting firms and municipalities. One of the projects the company was in the process of getting approved was a 250-home community in the Town of Oakville. This was a controversial subdivision proposal since it was being developed adjacent to an environmentally sensitive area. The area of concern was a large, diverse and relatively undisturbed forest that many plants and wildlife need to survive and reproduce. The forest also provided environmental services for existing communities such as capturing stormwater runoff. The development of a large community would put strain on the forest and its services. To address public concern related to the project, employees from the development company including myself and a planner from a hired consulting firm attended a public meeting held by the Town. The planner in this situation was there to address concerns raised by the public but also present an environmental analysis report of the proposed …show more content…
There is emphasis on the responsibility that planners must serve the interest of the public through techniques that inform and structure debates and foster understanding (OPPI, n.d.). Members should respect the diversity of needs and values of the public while providing clear and accurate information on planning matters. These sections also cover the consequences on the natural and built environment. Through the planner’s action it is evident that he has neglected the interest of the public and has put the values of the developer first by presenting limited information. The planner did not foster understanding by providing clear and accurate information. Instead the information provided was vague and was not accurately represented since affects were not covered adequately in terms of the long-term consequences. Section 2.7 to 2.9 in the CIP addresses the fact that planners are responsible for disclosing full information when possible conflict of interest arise (OPPI, n.d.). In this case the developer and their proposed development and the public and the adjacent environmentally sensitive area created a conflict of interest. the conflict of interest was that the developer wanted to develop a community that aligns with their proposed plan whereas existing residents wanted to change the proposed plan to protect the forest. Since a conflict of interest arose the planner was responsible for
The NMC succeeded the United Kingdom Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health visiting (UKCC) which was until 2002 has a core responsibility to register UK Nurses, Midwives, and health visitors as well as handle professional misconduct complaints and issue guidance for registered practitioners. The NMC was set up with the core responsibility of protecting the public by ensuring appropriate standard are set, reviewed and monitored for education, training, professional conduct and performance (Nursing and Midwifery Council, 2015). The core function of the NMC, as a regulator, is to establish and improve standards of nursing and midwifery care in order to serve and protect the public (Eaton, 2012). This assignment will focus on how NMC protects the public by carrying out its statutory roles. The writer will discuss the code of professional standards of practice and behaviour as it concerns Adult Nurses registration and deregistration of Adult Nurses, education and training, investigation and dealing with complaints, revalidation, criticisms of NMC, as a well as have a look at the future of NMC in regards to protecting the public.
The assignment this week challenged us to utilize our course objectives to address the requirements of the assignment. The objectives include how to apply the concepts of political ecology to environmental concerns, analyze the link between social, cultural, geographic, cultural, political factors, and environmental change, as well as assess methodological approaches used for research in political ecology. In addition, this assignment will discuss how reserves and national parks have been socially constructed/produced to be protected areas. Following this discussion, the conversation will include an overview of how this construction of national parks and reserves may result in the property rights reconstructing the resource into a rival good. Moreover, I will provide a brief discussion on the relationship between social construction of nature and environmental change. In conclusion, I will briefly review case studies and frameworks that are related to the conservation of biodiversity.
The NMC (2015) Code of Professional Conduct states that the nurse should "...act at all times in such to safeguard and promote the interests of individual patients and clients". The action of AMU nurse did not comply with this clause while caring for Ms Lisa. It was the ignorance and placed Ms Lisa in a position that was about to cost her Life. Therefore this attitude can not be acceptable.
Legislations and codes of practice help us to better understand the school policy in which we work. We are not expected to know all the details of each and every code and legislations but as a practitioner working with children, we need to identify the main one that has to do with promoting equality and valuing diversity in school. We need to show that we are aware of them in our practice. Each school must produce a range of policies which formally sets out the guideline and procedure for ensuring equality. These must take into account of the rights of individuals and groups within the school. Policies should also provide guidance for staff and visitors to the school on ways to ensure inclusive practice. There may be a number of separate policies or they may be combined. Policies must include ways that schools work in relation to:
The AICPA is a Code of Professional Conduct that inform individuals what they are mainly accountable for and what their performance on professional services should be comprise of. Throughout these codes, there are many guidelines that range from the most to least authoritative. The principles provide and overview of what the code of conduct is, meanwhile the set of guidelines helps enforces the code to individuals. The code of conduct has four parts including the preface, a part that applies to the individual in the public practice, business members, and the rest of other individuals.
Life is all about making decisions. Every day we are faced with situations that lead us to making decisions. At times those decisions might be wrong, sometimes right. When facing a dilemma it’s easy to make a decision, but it’s even more difficult to make a right and ethical decision. Any person can make a decision, but they won’t always make the right decision. Decision making gets tougher when it comes to making the right and ethical decision, especially when it comes to the business world because your decision will no longer affect you, but it would also affect others. Therefore, you must always be aware of your decisions making. Due to unethical decisions,
Both in the UK and internationally there exists a code of conduct within which police forces are expected to comply while operating in their line of duty. These codes of practice have been introduced in both international law and domestic law to ensure that the decisions and actions taken by the police are accountable to the public. This paper will analyse and evaluate the balance between police powers and how accountable they are for the actions they take, the decisions that they make and how these actions and decisions can be challenged by the public. The police are charged with the task of upholding the law within society and as a result the police have greater powers than those of ordinary citizens and a significantly greater access
The introduction to the old AICPA Code of Professional Conduct of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants provides guidance and rules for all members as it explains the composition of the code, application of standards and compliance enforcement procedures. The code consists of two sections principles and rules. The Principles provide a general framework for the Rules which CPAs have to adhere to the rules of the AICPA Code when practicing. The AICPA Code of Conduct consists of three levels: Principles of professional of conduct, Rules and interpretations and rulings. If a member violates the Code rules, disciplinary actions would be taken. The Principles of Professional Conduct (Sec 50) explains the responsibilities, public interest, integrity, objectivity and independence, due care and scope and nature of services for professional accountants. The rules of the AICPA Code are (Sec 90) Applicability and Definitions, (Sec 100) Independence, Integrity and Objectivity, (Sec 200) General Standards and accounting principles, (Sec 300) Responsibilities to clients, (sec 400) Responsibilities to colleagues and (sec 500) Other responsibilities.
A code of practise is all health care professionals being regulated by their own governing body. The governing body set out guidelines on professional conduct in order to uphold the professionalism and give the best possible care to patients. To follow these will create a positive care environment as it allows all patients to receive the same high standards of care as they have set rules and regulations to follow.
(Bixler et al. 2015; Robbins 2006; Wilson 1997; Wilson 1999). The relative success of the Klamath Basin Restoration Agreement, in that irrigators and tribes were able to collaborate despite a history of animosity and a century of entrenched power relationships (Most 2006), is surprising in the context of the political climate that must be overcome. Environmental groups however, were not part of this new coalition and are still pursing alternative ways to influence policy outside of CBRM. In the case of Walker and Hurley (2006) historical political animosities worked against the process and resulted in its dissolution, whereas in Yung, Patterson, and Friemund(2010) diversity resulted in an overly compromised “watered down” agreement that avoided any contentious issues, and therefore also avoided resolution since the real issues were never brought into discussion. I am interested in exploring how the Klamath Basin Settlement Group as a case study of community management will support or contradict the findings of other scholars. Wilson(1997) states “… while the symbols of conflict may change—a reintroduced wolf, a hydroelectric dam, a proposed timber sale in a national forest—the social meanings that undergird them remain embedded within persistent and divergent sociocultural contexts. Landscape itself thus can be conceived as a symbolic medium—a social resource—through which differing social groups express deeply held beliefs about relationships to society and nature(p.
What do you think about your being able to follow the ethical codes for our profession? I believe that it is very tough to follow the code of ethics in the helping profession. There is a two-way street that one side protects the welfare to the client and the other side of the road protect the counselor.
Acres and acres of irreplaceable forests and wetland taken away for one purpose: more money. PolyMet wants to build a copper-nickel mine in northern Minnesota. They don’t want to just build this mine on a black field in northern Minnesota but on Chippewa National Forest. PolyMet does own the mining rights of this specific chunk of land, but USFS owns the land on top. I think this mine is a terrible idea because it will create both land disturbances and air and water pollution.
Firstly, I have to state that I'm a firm believer in the need for establishing codes of ethics and in the need for the employees to follow these codes. Many ethical issues can be resolved up front by establishing such codes. This is the reason why a code of ethics for CPAs' called Code of Professional Conduct was created (AICPA, 2115). Of course there will always be a situation that is not covered by the code of ethics and in this case my personal ethics and the sense of integrity and responsibility would play a major role. My assumption is that in the described scenario there is no rule in the code of ethics that covers this issue or there is no code of ethics written for this company at all. I'm a person who has no problem taking responsibility
Codes of practice specify details in order to resist cracking in the concrete structure, for example the minimum area of reinforcement required in a section and also the limits to the maximum and minimum spacing of the bars. There are few rules that need to follow which is specified in the codes of practice is shown in Table 2.4
I am writing to you to address the problems our town will face in the future due to recent plans. In addition, I will discuss the impacts of the plans in regard to the citizens and town reputation, along with alternatives and ways to educate citizens about their ecological impact. Currently, the town’s carbon load is increasing due to an office park building several manufacturing factories and in the future if the proposal for a landfill is passed. Both of these events will take a toll on our environment and neighboring town if they aren’t terminated.