On-Demand Webinars

ETHICS FOR GEOLOGISTS AND ENGINEERS:
Realizations of Everyday Decisions and Common Behaviors

Ethical challenges often come without warning while most professionals do not realize when they are making an ethical decision or when their behavior crosses the boundary.

This 90-minute webinar provides geologists and engineers with an understanding of how to identify an ethical situation and make an ethical decision or behave appropriately in the everyday work environment. It will help you more easily make decisions while equipping you with a clear process that you can comfortably discuss issues with colleagues, supervisors, clients or regulatory staff.

The webinar included opportunities for participants to vote on scenarios during the presentation.

Thinking about potential problems and brainstorming with your colleagues about possible solutions can also help prepare you for the moment when the actual challenges arise. But there are also those moments when we are presented with immediate challenges when we are called to make the right choice. This webinar addresses the typical kinds of problems we face in working in the environmental and engineering industry and identifies resources and thought processes we can use to make ethical decisions.

This webinar includes:

• How subtle and not-so-subtle personal values affect our everyday professional decisions: and their consequences.
• Methods to address ethical issues with other environmental and engineering professionals.
• Insights from the Code of Conduct for Legislative Staff.
• Case studies that highlight subtle but very common ethical dilemmas.
• Live quizzes that can serve to prompt discussion following the session.

The most obvious benefit of creating an ethical corporate culture is avoiding the financial penalty from litigation and a potential conviction for civil or even criminal crimes. Fines, settlements, and fees can easily run into the millions of dollars while often adding the cost of external auditors and monitoring controls.

Possibly less obvious but equally compelling to establish an ethical corporate culture is promotion of solid leadership, project management and technical excellence while avoiding the inevitable cost of an unethical workforce to the company, its shareholders and the public at large.