NPPE Topic 2: Professional Practice Part 2

Question 1

What is sustainable development?

Answer 1

Using recourses (environment, people) in a way that is conducive to being able to make use of them in the long term

Question 2

Engineer’s duty requires them to ____ environmental law

Answer 2

meet

Question 3

What does ISO 9001 focus on?

Answer 3

Quality management - ensuring that products and services that an organization produces and delivers are consistently at a high standard and are produced and delivered efficiently

Question 4

What does ISO 3100 focus on?

Answer 4

Risk management - establishing systems to identify risks and minimize both their chance of occurring and their impact when they do occur

Question 5

What does ISO 14000 focus on?

Answer 5

Environmental management - a set of strategies for organizations to eliminate pollution in all of its forms, quantify the effect on the environment, and ensure that they are complying with relevant environmental standards

Question 6

Engineers are required to ____ of data produced by software packages

Answer 6

Verify the reasonableness (need to conduct a reasonable amount of sense checks to confirm that the software solutions are reasonable).

Question 7

Can professionals writing software be responsible for negligent errors made by softwares?

Answer 7

Yes

Question 8

When are engineers required to seal work?

Answer 8

Engineering work that is issued to the public

Question 9

Is it professional misconduct to seal something you didn’t actually prepare or check?

Answer 9

Yes

Question 10

What does a seal mean?

Answer 10

That the documents were competently prepared by an engineer

Question 11

The seal needs to be accompanied by:

Answer 11

A signature and date

Question 12

Can you seal work done by others?

Answer 12

Yes, for subordinates or people you’re collaborating with, but only if you have intimate knowledge of the work and control over it

Question 13

Can an external authority require you to seal a document?

Answer 13

No, the engineer assesses if something involves the practice of professional engineering done for the public

Question 14

Does the seal expire?

Answer 14

No

Question 15

Paper sealing SOP

Answer 15

copy the document to be sealed then seal the copy

Question 16

What is whistleblowing?

Answer 16

Exposing (publicly or to a client or regulatory agency) the secret illegal or secret unethical actions of your employer or fellow employees

Question 17

When would engineers need to whistleblow?

Answer 17

If necessary to maintain the safety & welfare of the public unless time allows to resolve things with your employer

Question 18

Levels of escalation when it comes to whistleblowing:

Answer 18

1. solving the problem yourself or having a friendly conversation with the one responsible
2. Going to higher management with the concern
3. Going to top management with the concern
4. Going to the relevant government authorities

Question 19

Whistleblower protection is converted under the:

Answer 19

Criminal Code of Canada, public servants disclosure acts, securities act

Question 20

Whistleblower protection provisions under the Criminal Code of Canada

Answer 20

• No person of authority over the employee can take or threaten disciplinary measures/demote/termination to prevent whistleblowing OR as punishment
• Failing above will lead in punishment (fines or imprisonment)

Question 21

Rule of contra proferentem

Answer 21

Where a contract is ambiguous, it’s interpreted against the party who wrote that part