Registered Occupational Hygienists® & Registered Occupational Hygiene Technologists® shall:
- Place the health and safety of workers above all other interests in the performance of their professional work.
- Direct professional activities toward the protection and improvement of the health, safety, and well-being of all persons.
- Make every reasonable effort to protect the environment from adverse effects resulting from the performance of their work.
- Perform their work honestly, objectively, and in accordance with currently accepted professional standards.
- Respect the privacy of confidential personal, professional, and business information.
- Participate only in projects or situations that do not place them in personal or business conflicts of interest. This provision is waived if the principal parties to the ROH®'s or ROHT®'s conflict of interest have given their informed, specifically expressed, consent.
- Conduct themselves with integrity.
- Maintain a working knowledge of current developments in the profession and a detailed knowledge of areas in which they claim expertise.
- Promote activities that advance and disseminate occupational hygiene knowledge.
- Co-operate with the directors of the Canadian Registration Board of Occupational Hygienists in administering this Code of Ethics. Adopted June 19, 1992