British Consultancy Ltd
(BCL)
Code
of Practice
Objectives
The objectives of a Code of Practice (CoP) for BCL Consultants
(Consultants) are:
-
to indicate to Clients and Consultants the nature of services
being provided
- to reinforce to Consultants that there are certain
standards that are expected
- to provide a framework for corrective
action if any becomes necessary.
Summary
This BCL Consultant Code of Practice is for Consultants prepared
to transfer their skills through the provision of advice and executive
responsibility. For this process to be effective it is required
that you, as a BCL Consultant (Consultant), will agree to:
1. Consult with professionalism
2. Consult with integrity
3. Always act sensitively
4. Avoid discrimination or partisanship
5. Encourage better occupational health and safety, and environmental
practices
6. Use electronic communications responsibly
7. Recognise the origins and management of the Code of Practice
8. Undertake
training as may be deemed desirable by BCL management
9. Accept the
appeals process.
The Code of Practice
By signing this Code of Practice you agree to:
1. Consult
with professionalism
1.1. Providing,
balanced, comprehensive and specialist advice and decision making
that is appropriate to the needs of the Client, in a professional
manner, avoiding any circumstances which may compromise professional
objectivity.
1.2. Ensuring that your professional
competence as a Consultant is adequate to perform the Assignment
as has been specified by the Client before you, as a BCL
Consultant, arrive on the Client’s site.
2. Consult
with integrity
2.1. Providing all relevant details about yourself
so that BCL, and thence any Client, receives a complete, clear
and accurate picture of your skills, experience and all other information
which will or may be relevant to your involvement as a Consultant. If
any of these details change, you agree to inform BCL as soon as
possible. BCL relies, in good faith, on the information you provide.
BCL therefore invests a high level of personal trust, in your submitting
representative, accurate and current details of your capabilities.
2.2. Utilising fair and best practice procedures,
including personal professional accountability, for your actions
taken while representing BCL and for all funds and time expended,
including any charges incurred - always recognising that BCL relies
on a high level of personal trust.
2.3. Not becoming involved in any activity during
the Assignment which could be seen as a conflict of interest as
far as the Client and/or BCL are concerned, and not entering into
any commercial relationship with the Client during the Assignment
or to carry out any work for any third party(ies) except as covered
by the Contract for Assignment, without the prior written agreement
of the Client and BCL.
2.4. Both during and after the Assignment, respecting
all confidences and not disclosing any confidential or sensitive
information (commercial, personal or otherwise) that has been identified
to you as a Consultant by the Client as being confidential or sensitive,
and as belonging or relating to the Client, or which comes to your
knowledge as a result of involvement in that Assignment and which
may reasonably be assumed to be confidential or sensitive to the
Client.
3. Always
act sensitively
3.1. At all times dealing with the Client, and
all BCL and Client staff and their representatives and any other
persons encountered on the Assignment in a fair, objective, polite
and sensitive manner. The Client and staff, and all BCL staff
and their representatives, are expected to treat you in the same
way.
3.2. Abiding by, and being sensitive to, the
laws and customs of the country and culture where your Assignment
takes place.
4. Avoid
discrimination or partisanship
4.1. Not treating any person
differently on the grounds of race, religion, gender, disability, age,
sexual preference, ethnic or national origin; but including due regard
for the impartial operational constraints of any applicable BCL
activities.
4.2. Not offering any statements and/or undertaking
activities during or after the Assignment that may reasonably be
construed as being partisan to a particular viewpoint except as
required by the Contract for Assignment, or as not representing
the levels of professional involvement that BCL could reasonably
expect of its Consultants. This would include you representing,
or being reasonably construed as so acting or speaking on behalf
of BCL, without you having obtained authority before the event
from a Head Office officer of BCL to so speak or act on behalf
of BCL.
5. Encourage
better occupational health and safety, and environmental practices
5.1. Encouraging, through discussion with the
Client, the awareness, adoption and implementation of appropriate
health and safety practices, training and support, in the task
areas of the Assignment where you are involved in offering advice
and where you have professional and practical competence.
5.2. Advancing only activities within BCL Assignments,
which improve the status of the environment. Such activities should
comply with agreed practices based on current environmental science
and any appropriate national and/or international guidelines.
6. Use
electronic communications responsibly
6.1. Having the ability to access the Internet
and being able to communicate via email with BCL, its Clients and
other Consultants.
6.2. Maintaining and at all times routinely using
current anti-virus software in all electronic communications.
7. Recognise
the origins and management of the Code of Practice
7.1. Recognizing that the ownership of this Code
of Practice is vested collectively within BCL and BCCT, with the
Directors, Regional Managers who consult one another, and with
the Administration Management and Recruiters within. This Group
has the responsibility for the guidance of this Code and its implementation.
By accepting this Code of Practice you, as a BCL Consultant, acknowledge
the role of this group in the implementation of the BCL Code of
Practice.
8. Undertake training as may be deemed desirable
by BCL management
8.1 Undertaking training in preparation
for an assignment or potential assignment in topics deemed desirable
by BCL management and which are likely to cover conditions relevant
to the country being visited and associated topics within a multi-staffed
project
9. Accept the appeals process
9.1. Accepting that all appeals against any decisions
taken by BCL on infringements of this Code of Practice should be
addressed to the Directors of BCL for review.
Accepted by: ........................................................................
BCL Consultant
Name: ........................................................................
Title: ........................................................................
Date: ........................................................................ |
