NDT Ethics: Maintaining Ethics and Integrity While Satisfying Production and Aerospace Prime Requirements
by Antionette (Toni) Bailey . Welcome to our quarterly column on NDT Ethics from the special edition of Materials Evaluation issue focusing on women in NDT. This month, we take a different twist and take a moment to highlight ethical practices (instead of focusing on nonethical practices) regarding maintaining ethics and integrity while satisfying production […]
NDT Ethics: Production, Management, and QA—NDT Viewed as a Cost Burden
This month’s column discusses ethics in scenarios regarding production, management, and quality assurance’s approach to NDT, and the effects those behaviors could have on NDT.
I Just Want My Certs, Bro!
Being asked to let something slide or just “pencil whip” the certifications puts an inspector in a tough position. It is the NDT inspector’s duty to perform their job with integrity and professionalism, even when under pressure.
NDT Ethics: Combating Unethical Certification Examination Practices
This month’s ethics column discusses unethical practices regarding the development and administration of qualification examinations for NDT certification.
An Existential Crisis for NDT
Is the nondestructive testing (NDT) field facing a crisis of ethics? If you judge the state of the profession by the number of reports of professional fraud I’ve seen recently, the answer may be “yes.”
Preventing Unethical Behavior in NDT
Leaders can contribute to the unethical behavior environment in many ways. Leaders can make it psychologically unsafe to speak up, can apply excessive pressure to reach unrealistic performance targets, or not set a good example. In this blog post, the author provides recommendations to prevent future unethical behavior.
Professional Ethics: Falsifying and Failure to Report
Ethical violations that escape detection at an early stage can cause critical failures over time.