Professional ethics codes

General / public employees

• OECD's Principles for Managing Ethics in the Public Service gives a common frame of reference
• United Nations' Draft International Code of Conduct for Public Officials contains more resolute guidelines
• The UN has also issued a convention against corruption
• See also the Council of Europe's suggested "Recommendation (2000) 10 on codes of conducts for public officials" which includes a "model code"
• From the United Nations we have Norms on the responsibilities of transnational corporations and other business enterprises with regard to human rights
• The Council of Europe's 20 guiding principles for the fight against corruption, and their Criminal Law Convention and Civil Law Convention on Corruption
• Lima Declaration against Corruption (8th International Conference Against Corruption 1997)
• OECD Guidelines on Managing Conflict of Interest in the Public Service
• Applied Ethics Case of the Month Club: Recommended Core Ethical Values
• In the Toronto resolution a framework is given for working out professional codes of ethics

Agrologists

• A Guideline to the Ethical Responsibilities of Agrologists (US)
• Statement of Ethics (American Society of Agronomy)

Anthropologists

• Code of Ethics of the American Anthropological Association, AAA
• Principles of Professional Responsibility (AAA)
• Handbook on Ethical Issues in Anthropology (AAA)

Arborists

• ISA Code of Ethics

Archaeologists

• World Archaeological Congress - First Code of Ethics
• Svenska Arkeologiska Samfundets riktlinjer för god arkeologisk praxis (the Swedish Archaeological Society's principles for good archeological practice)

Bioethicists

• Draft Model Code of Ethics for Bioethics (Canada)
• Code of Ethics and Professional Responsibilities for Healthcare Ethics Consultants (American Society for Bioethics and Humanities)

Biotechnologists

• Europabio's Core ethical values

Botanists

• Society for Economic Botany Guidelines of Professional Ethics

Chemists

• The Chemical Professional's Code of Conduct (American Chemical Society)

Communication professionals

• Yrkesetiska riktlinjer för kommunikatörer (DIK)

Conservators - Restorers

• Code of Ethics (the European Confederation of Conservator-Restorers' Organisations)
• AIC Code of Ethics and Guidelines for Practice (US)

Dentists

• Swedish Dental Association: Etiska riktlinjer (Ethical Guidelines)
• Council of European Dentists: Code of Ethics for Dentists in the European Union
• FDI - World Dental Federation: International Principles Of Ethics For The Dental Profession
• International Association for Dental Research: Code of Ethics

Dieticians

Etisk kod (Dietisternas Riksförbund)

Doctors

• The Oath of Hippocrates
• Swedish Medical Association's etiska regler (ethical rules)
• Guidelines from The Swedish Society of Medicine
• Medical Ethics Manual (World Medical Association)
• World Medical Association (WMA):
• Tokyo declaration
• Hamburg Declaration
• Geneve Declaration
• Statement on Patient Advocacy and Confidentiality
• WHO, UN: Principles of Medical Ethics (on the protection of persons subjected to detention)
• Le code de déontologie
• Medical Professionalism in the New Millennium: A Physician Charter (Project of the ABIM Foundation, ACP–ASIM Foundation, and European Federation of Internal Medicine)
• Code of Ethics (Endocrine Society)
• Code of Ethics: New principles for an Ethical base of Research on Human Remains (Institute of Evolutionary Medicine, University of Zurich)

(Swedish) economics school graduates

• Yrkesetiska riktlinjer (professional ethics guidelines)

Emergency Physicians

• Code of Ethics for Emergency Physicians (US)

Engineers

• Hippocratic Oath for Scientists, Engineers, and Executives
• Hederskodex för Ingenjörer (Honor code for engineers)
• IEEE Code of Ethics (The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
• ASME International: Code of Ethics of Engineers
• The Model Code of Ethics from World Federation of Engineering Organizations (WFEO)
• Earth Charter
• The Order of The Engineer
• Code of Ethics (The International Federation of Consulting Engineers)
• NSPE Code of Ethics for Engineers (National Society of Professional Engineers, US)

Environmental professionals

• SETAC Code of Ethics (Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry)
• Ethics Guidelines for Environmental Epidemiologists (The International Society for Environmental Epidemiology)
• Guidelines for Good Epidemiology Practices for Occupational and Environmental Epidemiologic Research
• Professional Code of Conduct and Ethical Responsibilities (The International Association for Impact Assessment)

Forestry

• Good practice guide to meeting FSC certification requirements
  for biodiversity and High Conservation Value Forests in Small
  and Low Intensity Managed Forests (Forest Stewardship Council)
• A Forest Ethic and Multivalue Forest Management (article in Journal of Forestry)
• Forest Ethics: the role of ethical dialogue in the fate of the forests. Comparing and contrasting the international forest policy dialogue with the Earth Charter Initiative (International Institute for Environment and Development)
• Reverence and responsibility in forest ethics: Inserting the meaning of life back into the culture of possession (International Institute for Environment and Development)
• Code of Ethics (Canadian Institute of Forestry/Institut forestier du Canada)

Genetic counselors

• Code of Ethics by The National Society of Genetic Counselors, US

Gynecologists / Obstetricians

• Guidelines produced by The FIGO Committee

Historians

• Statement on Standards of Professional Conduct (American Historical Association)
• Oral History Evaluation Guidelines (Oral History Association)

Infection control professionals

• APIC Professional and practice standards (Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology)

Information technology

• ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct
• BCS Code of Conduct & Code of Good Practice
• Software Engineering Code of Ethics and Professional Practice
• The Ten Commandments of Computer Ethics (Computer Ethics Institute)
• Standards, Guidelines and Procedures issued by the Standards Board of the Information Systems Audit and Control Association

Journalists

• Code of Ethics (Society of Professional Journalists)
• Statement of Principles of the Association of Health Care Journalists (AHCJ - Association of Health Care Journalists)
• Constitution (World Federation of Science Journalists)
• Ethics of journalism - Resolution 1003 (Parliamentary Assembly, Council of Europe, 1993)

Judiciary

• God domarsed - grundsatser och frågor
• God domarsed - om etik och ansvarstagande
• God domarsed – om tjänsteansvar och tillsyn
• Basic Principles on the Role of Lawyers (UN)
• Basic Principles on the Independence of the Judiciary (UN)
• The Bangalore Principles of Judicial Conduct

Librarians, etc.

• IFLA Code of Ethics for Librarians and other Information Workers
• Code of ethics for members of European Association for Health Information and Libraries

Logopedists

• Yrketisk för logopeder (The Swedish Association of Logopedists)

Mathematicians

• Ethical Guidelines by the American Mathematical Society

Medical laboratory technologists

• Yrkesetiska kod för biomedicinska analytiker (professional ethics guidelines) by Institutet för biomedicinsk laboratorievetenskap (the Swedish Institute of Biomedical Laboratory Science)
• International Federation of Biomedical Laboratory Science: IFBLS Code of Ethics

Midwives

• International Code of Ethics For Midwives, also in Swedish from Swedish Midwives Association (Svenska barnmorskeförbundet)

Museum profession

• Code of Ethics for Museums (The International Council of Museums - ICOM)
• Declarations and Statements (The International Council of Museums - ICOM)
• UNIDROIT Convention on Stolen or Illegally Exported Cultural Objects

Nuclear Energy

• Charter of Ethics (World Nuclear Association)

Nuclear Medicine Technologists

• Code of Ethics
• Advanced Performance and Responsibility Guidelines (European Association of Nuclear Medicine)

Nurses

• ICN Code pf Ethics for Nurses (International Council of Nurses)
• Position statements from International Council of Nurses
• Nightingale Pledge
• Ethical guidelines for nursing research in the Nordic Countries (Northern Nurses' Federation)
• Medical Ethics Manual (World Medical Association)

Occupational and Environmental Hygenists

• Etikregler (ethics guideline) (SYMF)

Occupational Therapists

• Code of Ethics (World Federation of Occupational Therapist - WFOT)
• The Swedish Association of Occupational Therapists (FSA): Etisk kod (ethics guideline)

Operational researchers

• The Oath of Prometheus

Pharmacists

• Etiska riktlinjer (ethics guidelines) from Sveriges Farmaceutförbund [The Swedish Pharmaceutical Association]
• Code of Ethics from the International Academy of Compounding Pharmacists
• Code of Ethics from the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP), including Good Pharmacy Practice (WHO)
• Policy documents from FIP

Physicists

• Guidelines for Professional Conduct (American Physical Society)
• APS Statements (American Physical Society)

Physiotherapists

• Etiska regler (ethics guidelines) from the Swedish Association of Physiotherapists
• Ethical Principles (World Confederation for Physical Therapy)

Professors (see also universities)

• Professorernas hederskodex (the Professors' honor code) from Sveriges Professorers Förening (SULF)

Project Management

• IPMA Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct

Psychologists, etc.

• Hawaii declaration by WPA 1977 (1983)
• Madrid declaration by WPA
• Etik & Psykoterapi. Etisk kod för psykoterapeuter (Akademikerförbundet SSR)
• Etiska riktlinjer för psykoterapeuter (ethical guidelines for psychotherapists) (Riksföreningen PsykoterapiCentrum)
• Etiska riktlinjer för psykoterapihandledare (Riksföreningen PsykoterapiCentrum)
• Etiska regler för terapeutisk verksamhet (ethical rules for therapeutic work) (Sveriges Auktoriserade Gestaltterapeuter)
• Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code Of Conduct (APA)
• Ethical Guidelines from the European Association for Psychotherapy
• Yrkesetiska principer (professional ethics guidelines) for psychologists in the Nordic countries (The Swedish Psychological Association)
• Code of Ethics (European Federation of Psychologists' Associations)
• Code of Ethics and Standards of Professional Practice (The Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology)

Radiographers / radiological technologists

• Yrkesetisk kod för röntgensjuksköterskor
• Code of Ethics (ISRRT)

Research administrators

• SRA International Code of Ethics

Social workers, sociologists, social scientists etc.

• Etik för samhällsvetare (Akademikerförbundet SSR)
• Etisk kod för socialarbetare [Code of Ethics for Social Workers] (Akademikerförbundet SSR)
• Yrkesetiska regler för chefer i offentlig verksamhet (Vision)
• Statement of Ethical Principles (International Federation of Social Workers)
• Code of Ethics (The International Sociological Association)
• American Sociological Association Code of Ethics
• Code of Ethics (The U.S. National Association of Social Workers - NASW)
• Standards for integrating Genetics into Social Work Practice (The U.S. National Association of Social Workers - NASW)

Statistical practitioners

• Ethical Guidelines for Statistical Practice (American Statistical Association)
• Declaration on Professional Ethics (International Statistical Institute)

Toxicologists

• Code of Ethics

Universities / Lecturers (see also professors)

• Ethical guidelines for university teachers (SULF)
• The Magna Charta of University
• European Commission: Communication - The role of the universities in the Europe of knowledge
• Recommendation concerning the Status of Higher-Education Teaching Personnel (UNESCO)
• Rekommendation (2000)8 of the Committee of Ministers to member states on the research mission of universities
• The Association of University Leaders for a Sustainable Future (ULSF): The Talloires Declaration of a commitment to environmental sustainability in higher education
• Graz Declaration on The Role of Universities - to 2010 and Beyond (European University Association)

Last updated: 2020-01-30