A code of ethics is a guide of principles designed to help professionals conduct business

honestly and with integrity. A code of ethics document may outline the mission and values of the
business or organization, how professionals are supposed to approach problems, the ethical
principles based on the organization's core values and the standards to which the professional is
held. A code of ethics, also referred to as an "ethical code," may encompass areas such
as business ethics, a code of professional practice and an employee code of conduct.

The truly sad part about this collapse is that it was entirely preventable. There was no
crazy weather phenomenon or act of god that caused this it was simply a case of complete and
total failure from design to construction. In the future countries such as this must enforce much
stronger codes of ethics and standards of work for all buildings. In the design process something
like a per-review should have been utilized for a structure this large and with such high risk to
human life. As for the construction process it seems like there was no standards followed at all.
With such giant failures from the contractor one must look at the owner as to how a company
like this could be hired in the first place for a job this significant. These question again lead back
to the notion that corruption of the owner in this case the government might have been at work
do to how easily all of this could have been prevented.

Construction and site supervision is the part of the work by the contractor that needs
close attention and supervision because the final outcome of the finished product depends on the
quality of work produced by the contractor on site. Hence, it is expected that the contract
workers will be supervised by the site engineers or clerk of works to ensure there is no
compromise in design and actual construction work. It is the responsibility of the consultants
(both the architect and engineer) to carry out periodic, if not regular, inspection on site to ensure
that the quality of work done by the contractor is up to par. The standard site inspection usually
carried out to verify everything is within acceptable limits.

Engineers have to follow the design rules and in fact they have to pay the risk by
designing something so that any accident can be averted. By generating the owner's manual,
maybe the user can use the device or the technology in the right way and it also can reduce the
chances of getting any accident that can lead to death or injury. So engineers are born to help the
people in the world by inventing the advance technology and designing it with the prospect of
safety too. All the design must meet their specifications and standards to ensure a good and safe
design. Federal safety laws are different for each departments or industries.

Engineers are professionally responsible for ensuring that their products or system are
safe enough before they are established. They are legally bounded through law and regulations to
ensure that their designs are safe from concept through disposal. To ensure a safe design,
engineers must foresee the possibilities about the misuses of the products and implement ways to
minimize the cautions of product misuses by the users. By adopting a safe design approach, it is
possible to design-out health and safety hazards to create a design options that meet both clients
need and our obligations as an engineer.

Accepted engineering practice is a safety issues that involve fundamental ideas about
how we view the world and what we believe is important and right. A designer has a
responsibility to ensure that their conceptions do not put the others on risk. They can't just create
the design by simply ignore insignificant risk even it consumes lots of cost. For good engineers,
they must always find alternatives about how to improve their current products to improve safety
effect besides implementing new ways of design. However, after designing, the products and
finished devices must be tested rigorously to see whether the products are safe and meet the
specifications needed.

The ethical code that can be applied to this case is utilitarianism, duty ethics, and virtue
ethics. Utilitarianism means that the engineering company should use the good quality of
material and monitor the workmanship of their workers. They cannot just think of mere profit
without considering the adverse effects which may occur in the future. Duty ethics means that
the responsible parties should take immediate action when they notice any problem happen.
However, they turned a blind eye and act like nothing has happen. Virtue ethics means that the
engineer should show good character instead of bad character other than they should follow all
the rules and specification use in that project without neglecting even one of it to prevent from
anything bad happen and the must ensure every single specification that has been set by the
responsible should be obeyed because there must be a good reason behind each point.

An investigation of the Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin Stadium roof collapse was
performed after the collapse by the government of Malaysia. The report was finished in
December of 2009 but has not been released to the public and to obtain a copy it costs a large
amount of money to purchase from the government. As long the full report is not published to
public, the integrity of the people who manage the project is highly in question. It is as if they
want to avoid taking any blame and quietly make their way out. This is in stark contrast to how
most investigations of building failures are conducted in the United States. In the States this
report would have been made public so that the engineering and construction community could
learn from the mistakes made. This along with other issues in how the stadium was originally
constructed imply the presence of corruption in the government [3]. Luckily there are summaries
of the report available as an alternative.

For the cause of failure ten independent investigators from government agencies and
professional bodies appointed by the Public Works Department (JKR) have made investigation.
As for the cause of the failure in short everything from the design through construction was done
incorrectly. Failures in every aspect of the building also leads to questioning about the owner
which is also the government and their motivations when starting the project [1]. Even after
eight months waiting for full report and investigation, the report that is being released are not
thorough. It also does not indicate who or which party should be responsible for the ruin of the
stadium. With project this big, there is no way that no one can be held accountable. For worse,
the party who are is not even responsible for the failure are being judge by public guilty. Hence,
it is important that whenever accident or incidents occur, the party who responsible for the
occurrence need to take the blame. This will put public to calm and move forward with more
imperative action and avoid never ending blaming event.

Reference

[1] Ir. Assoc. Prof. Dr Jeffrey CL. Chiang ,“Quality Engineering Design and Construction in
Malaysia: A Fast Disappearing and Endangered Commodity?” , December 2010
[2] Essays, UK. (November 2013). Risk And Engineering Code Of Ethics. Retrieved from
https://www.ukessays.com/essays/construction/risk-and-engineering-code-of-ethics-
construction-essay.php?vref=1

[3] Abu Hassim, Aliza, Stephen L. Kajewski, and Bambang Trigunarsyah ( November 19, 2010).
"Factors contributing to ethical issues in project procurement planning: a case study in
Malaysia." In Proceedings of 2010 International Conference on Construction & Real Estate
Management Volume 1, pp. 312-317. China Architecture and Building Press, 2010.
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Ethical Code

Utilitarianism

The engineering company should use the good quality of material and monitor the
workmanship of their workers .They cannot just think of mere profit without considering the
adverse effects which may occur in the future.

Duty ethics

Responsible parties should take immediate action when they notice any problem
happen. However, they turned a blind eye and act like nothing has happen.

Virtue ethics

- Should show good character instead of bad character.

- They should follow all the rules and specification use in that project
without neglecting even one of it to prevent from anything bad happen.
- Every single specification that has been set by the responsible should be
obeyed because there must be a good reason behind each point.