Ethics education a must for safety professionals, study says
A recent study examining ethical reasoning among safety, health and environmental (SH&E) professionals is expected to help educators determine how to integrate a moral and ethical base within safety curricula to prepare future safety professionals to have an ethics based thought process when they enter the work force. The study is the subject of Commitment, Ethics and Compliance, A Look at Perceptions in the SH&E Profession, a peer-reviewed feature in the September issue of Professional Safety, the journal of the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE).
“This is one of the first snap shots taken of the safety and health profession as far as an ethics review,” explained the article’s author John (Jay) Wells, Jr., Ed.D., CSP. “Many other professions have ethics standards, and we are in an industry that is impacted by ethical and moral decisions.”