Current Ethical Issues

In this course we talk about some of the issues facing the profession that are most relevant to today’s practice of surveying. We also discuss how making a personal commitment to ethical behavior is much more important than trying to follow some rules. Some of the topics discussed include pincushion corners, moonlighting, recordation, and using insufficient or improper control to perform a survey.

Objectives

• Develop an understanding of what some of the issues face surveyors most commonly
• Develop an understanding of why personal commitment to ethical behavior is more important that following rules
• Learn from ethical situations that a surveyor may encounter. In these situations we discuss proper ethical responses to these situations.