Avoid the professional embarrassment and financial loss associated with breach of ethical obligations regarding a public project.
Public sector infrastructure work involves high levels of responsibility with satisfaction and profit, and can offer advancement from successful projects that meet the needs of people and nature. However, the work also involves ethical and legal dilemmas that can cause loss of jobs, business, money, reputations, and licenses to practice. It can involve lawsuits, investigations, official inquiries, and in extreme cases, indictments, trials, and convictions based on civil or criminal law. Most public works practitioners do not experience such situations, but avoiding them requires knowledge, experience, and judgment. The maze of ethical and legal norms and rules arising in public works projects can be confusing, but practitioners can be equipped with basic knowledge through a framework of situations, rules, and guidelines that will enable them to avoid mistakes and provide guidance to other stakeholders in the arena of public works projects. These involve a hierarchy of things you must do to achieve compliance with those that you should do in areas of choice based on codes of ethics and situations where practitioners have discretion. Situations range from project planning through regulation and include activities of players like designers, contractors, public agency employees, vendors, and public officials responsible for governance. Dilemmas include lack of competencies leading to design mistakes, incompetence in constructed projects, bid rigging, favoritism in contracting, negligence and incompetence leading to public health and environmental emergencies, inattention to environmental and social justice, supervisory mistakes, violation of public trust, substandard materials by vendors, careless financial accountability, and improper competition for business.
Learning Objectives
- You will be able to define ethics, law, and professional requirements and relate them to work responsibilities in public works.
- You will be able to describe situations that might lead to ethical and legal situations and risks.
- You will be able to identify how to apply ethics, law, and sound judgement to decision making.
- You will be able to recognize traps that are created by unclear situations and slippery slopes.
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Agenda
Risk Framework for Ethical and Legal Dilemmas of Public Works Projects
- Design and Construction Mistakes
- Mistakes Relating to Workforce and the Public
- Mistakes With Environmental and Social Consequences
- Other Dilemmas of Participants in Public Works Projects
Ethical and Legal Constraints on Public Works Projects
- Ethics, Morality, and Law in Public Works Situations
- Laws, Rules, Codes, and Standards Relating to Infrastructure
- Codes of Ethics and Major Legal Controls on Public Works Projects
- Roles, Responsibilities, and Transparency in Public Works Projects
Common Ethical Situations Confronting Project Stakeholders From Owner to Regulator
- Engineering Planning and Design Phases
- Preconstruction, Bidding, and Contracting
- Operational Situations Affecting Public Health, Justice, and the Environment
- Other Ethical Situations Confronting Participants in Infrastructure Life Cycle
Guidelines for Navigating Situations to Achieve Favorable Outcomes
- Preparation to Confront Ethical and Legal Situations
- Setting Your Personal and Professional Compass
- Decision Making, Learning Lessons, and Providing Leadership
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This course was last revised on March 23, 2023.
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- AK ENG 1.0
- This Ondemand program is applicable for professional development hours through the Alaska State Board of Registration for Architects, Engineers and Land Surveyors. Professional development hours: 1.0.
*Please check the rules and requirements in your state for compliance.
- AL ENG
- This Ondemand program is applicable for professional development hours through the Alabama Board of Licensure for Professional Engineers and Professional Land Surveyors.*
*Please check the rules and requirements in your state for compliance.
- AR ENG
- This Ondemand program is applicable for 1.0 professional development hours.*
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- FL ENG 1.2
- This course has been approved for 1.2 PDHs by the Florida Board of Professional Engineers in the Areas of Practice.
- GA ENG
- This Ondemand program is applicable through the Georgia State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers.for 1.0 professional development hours.*
*Please check the rules and requirements in your state for compliance.
- IA ENG
- This Ondemand program is applicable for professional development hours for engineers. Please refer to Chapter 3, 193C IAC.*
- ID ENG 1.0
- This Ondemand program is applicable for 1.0 professional development hours through the Idaho Board of Professional Engineers and Professional Land Surveyors.*
*Please check the rules and requirements in your state for compliance.
- IL ENG 1.0
- This course has been approved by the Illinois Society of Professional Engineers for 1.0 professional development hours.
- IN ENG 1.2 including Ethics 1.2
- This Ondemand program is applicable for 1.2 professional development hours through the Indiana State Board for Professional Engineers.*
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- KS ENG 1.0
- This program is applicable for 1.0 professional development hours for engineers.*
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- KY ENG 1.0
- This Ondemand program is applicable for 1.0 professional development hours for engineers.*
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- LA ENG
- The Louisiana Professional Engineering and Land Surveying Board (LAPELS) no longer approves providers or courses. Lorman Education Services believes that this course is worth 1.1 PDH(s). According to LAPELS' rules, It will be the responsibility of the licensee to determine if a Course/Activity offered by an unapproved sponsor/provider is an Acceptable Activity.
- MD ENG 1.0
- Lorman Education Services is a board approved sponsor with the Maryland Board of Professional Engineers. This course qualifies for 1.0 professional development hours.
- ME ENG 1.0
- This ondemand program is applicable for a maximum of 1.0 hours toward the annual PDH requirement. Please note: The State of Maine Professional Engineers Registration Board does not pre-approve courses for professional development credit.*
*Please check the rules and requirements in your state for compliance.
- MN ENG 1.0 including Ethics 1
- This course is applicable for a maximum of 1.0 hour(s) toward the PDH requirement for engineers including 1.0 ethics hour(s). Please note: The Minnesota State Board of Registration for Engineers has final authority on the acceptance of individual courses.
- MO ENG 1.5
- This ondemand course is applicable for 1.5 professional development hours for engineers.*
*Please check the rules and requirements in your state for compliance.
- MS ENG
- This course is applicable for professional development hours (including ethics) through the Mississippi State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers.
- MT ENG 1.0
- This ondemand course is applicable for 1.0 professional development hours for engineers.*
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- NC ENG 1.0
- This program may qualify for up to 1.0 professional development hour(s) for engineers. Please note: The North Carolina Board of Examiners for Engineers and Surveyors does not require that licensees take their CE from a Board approved Sponsor. The onus is on the licensee to make the determination of whether a course or activity has a purpose or objective which will maintain, improve, or expand the skills and knowledge relevant to the licensee's field of practice.
- ND ENG 1.0
- The North Dakota State Board of Registration for Engineers and Land Surveyors does not pre-approve courses or providers.
This course may be applicable for professional development hours in your state. Please check your rules and requirements for compliance.
- NE ENG
- This course is applicable for professional development hours for engineers if the course is continuing engineering education for you.*
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- NH ENG 1.0
- This course is applicable for 1.0 professional development hours for engineers.*
*Please check the rules and requirements in your state for compliance. The New Hampshire Board of Engineers has final authority on granting approval.
- NJ ENG 1.0 including Ethics 1
- Lorman Education Services is authorized as a provider to offer courses through the New Jersey Board of Professional Engineers. Approval number: 4GP000004700.
This course is applicable for 1.0 CPC credits including 1.0 hour(s) of ethics for engineers. *
*Please check the NJ State rules and requirements for compliance.
- NM ENG 1.0
- This course is applicable for 1.0 professional development hours for engineers.*
*Please check the rules and requirements in your state for compliance.
- NV ENG 1.0
- This course is applicable for 1.0 professional development hours through the Nevada State Board of Engineering and Land Surveyors.*
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- OH ENG
- This ondemand course is applicable for ethics continuing education credit for engineers through the Ohio State Board of Licensure for Professional Engineers provided it is a relevant managerial, ethical or technical topic relevant to the practice of engineering or surveying.*
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- OK ENG
- This course is applicable for professional development hours for engineers.*
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- OR ENG
- This course is applicable toward engineering continuing education hours in Oregon, please refer to your rules and laws.
- PA ENG 1.2
- This program is applicable for 1.2 PDHs for engineers through the Pennsylvania State Board of Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors and Geologists.*
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- SC ENG 1.0
- This course is applicable for 1.0 hours toward the PDH requirement for engineers through the South Carolina Board of Registration for Professional Engineers.*
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- SD ENG
- This course is applicable for professional development hours for engineers in South Dakota.*
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- TN ENG
- This course is applicable for professional development hours for engineers.*
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- TX ENG
- This Ondemand course is applicable for professional development hours including ethics for engineers.*
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- UT ENG
- This course is applicable for professional development hours for engineers.*
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- VA ENG 1.0
- This program is applicable for 1.0 hours of continuing education through the Board for Architects, Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors, Certified Interior Designers and Landscape Architects (APELSCIDLA BOARD).*
*Please check the rules and requirements in your state for compliance.
- VT ENG
- This course is applicable for professional development hours for engineers.*
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- WI ENG 1.0 including Ethics 1
- This ondemand course is applicable for a maximum of 1.0 hours toward the PDH requirement including for engineers.*
*The Wisconsin Engineer Section has final authority on the acceptance of individual courses and providers.
- WV ENG 1.0
- This course is applicable for 1.0 professional development hours for engineers.*
*Please check the rules and requirements in your state for compliance.
- WY ENG 1.2
- This course is applicable for 1.2 professional development hours for Wyoming engineers.*
*Please check the rules and requirements in your state for compliance.
This program does NOT qualify, nor meet the National Standard for NASBA accreditation.
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Neil S. Grigg
Colorado State University
Neil Grigg
- Consultant in public works industry in US and other countries
- State government service with responsibility for environmental regulation
- Legal experience as Supreme Court appointee and as expert witness
- Graduate of US Military Academy with experience as Corps of Engineers officer
- University experience with conflict resolution involving diverse employee issues
- Involvement in faith and volunteer communities, including Rotary Club
- Professional association involvement in workforce mentoring program
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