CFSE/CFSP Code of Conduct

The CFSE Governance Board considers ethical conduct of all those achieving the CFSE/CFSP to be a vital part of the designation and requires signed acceptance of the following Code of Ethics:

A Certified Functional Safety Expert and a Certified Functional Safety Professional has clear obligations and duties to exercise his or her skills toward the creation, promotion, and maintenance of functional safety.

Toward that end it shall be considered professional and consistent with honorable and dignified bearing for any Certified Functional Safety Expert and a Certified Functional Safety Professional to:

1. Use reasonable and careful judgment to ensure that one’s work is executed to promote safety of both those directly employed in using the particular equipment or process as well as those in the general public who also could be adversely affected.
2. Confine one’s practice of engineering and safety fully within the limits of one’s skills and proficiencies.
3. Continue to develop one’s skills and knowledge in the field of safety as long as one continues to practice in the safety area
4. Comply with all codes and standards appropriate to the work undertaken
5. Act for one’s client, customer, or employer in all professional matters with complete integrity as a faithful agent or trustee
6. Accept no remuneration other than one’s stated recompense for services rendered.
7. Never attempt to injure falsely or maliciously, directly or indirectly, the professional reputation, prospects, or business of anyone.
8. Never use or permit the use of one’s signature on work over which one was not in responsible charge.
9. The CFSE/CFSP certificate is a certificate that can be suspended or withdrew if the candidate has violated the terms described in the Code of Conduct. Certificates can not be signed by Course Providers, Proctors, or Authorized Grading agents of the exams they graded or taught.