Personal Code of Practice

I am a Fellow of both the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) and the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM), both of which set high professional standards for their members. Relevant parts of the RSC's Code of Conduct and Guidance on Professional Practice and the full text of CIWEM's Code of Ethics are reproduced below to indicate the standards which I attempt to employ in my own professional work for Envirocell.

RSC Code of Conduct 1999 (extracts)

Impact on the environment

Chemists should use their knowledge and experience for the protection and improvement of the environment.

In addition to legal obligations, chemists also have a duty to minimise adverse effects on the environment, to recommend and use best environmental practice and to seek opportunities to promote sustainable development.

As part of their obligations to their employers and top society, chemists should assess the environmental impact of their activities and give appropriate advice.

The Chemist as a Consultant

All consultants must maintain a confidential relationship with clients and must not divulge information obtained from clients to a third party. This may preclude the consultant from accepting work for another client working in the same field as an existing client.

CIWEM Code of Ethics 2001

Members of the Institution will be expected to use their influence to the fullest extent and to behave to the best of their ability to maintain a sustainable environment in the following way:

  • ensure that the uses of natural resources are fair, equitable and sustainable and take account of the needs of a diverse environment
  • never knowingly or deliberately over-exploit natural resources
  • never knowingly or deliberately cause the environment to be damaged or nuisance to be created by the discharge of unacceptable quantities of any substance of energy in any form
  • recognise that in contributing to the provision of environmental services they provide an important contribution to human well-being
  • ensure that the uses of the environment do it no harm or to the native wildlife within it and, wherever possible, enhance it
  • embrace the needs of the community
  • promote the concepts of integration of the management of the wider environment
  • use their wisdom in serving the community and constantly strive to learn more
  • serve as an example to others for responsible behaviour
  • never engage in corrupt practice and maintain a high standard of professional behaviour which will serve as an example to others.