GOFSEA

For the fire and life safety educator, professional and ethical conduct includes a commitment to:

• Achieve and maintain professional competency.
• Advance the professional competency of other fire and life safety educators through networking and mentoring.
• Teach only those subjects which the fire and life safety educator is qualified to teach.
• Prepare for each presentation because a life in the audience dependsupon it.
• Evaluate program results honestly.
• Continually improve programs and presentations.
• Use only current and accurate material and information, including statistics.
• Perform the duties fo fire and life safety education with integrity.
• Respect the work of other educators, through the courtesies of crediting their ideas and materials where appropriate and through compliance with copyright laws.
• Recognize when your own conduct does not fully meet this canon of ethics, and resolve to improve.

Source: Pam Powell, Fire and Life Safety Educator, Second Edition, Fire Protection Publications, Oklahoma State University, 2002, p. 12. Edited by Marsha Sneed and Richard Hall.