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Re: Standard of Care Requirements for Fire Investigators
Posted by: Jim Mazerat (IP Logged)
Date: February 28, 2007 11:00AM
Pat
I may have tried to simplify the proposed wording too much. Would you and the others wanting a standard of care be willing to accept the following wording as the standard of care for our profession?
In performing professional services for a client, a investigator has the duty to have that degree of learning and skill ordinarily possessed by reputable investigators, practicing in the same or similar locality and under similar circumstances. It is investigator’s further duty to use the care and skill ordinarily used in like cases by reputable members of the profession practicing in the same or similar locality under similar circumstances, and to use reasonable diligence and investigator’s best judgment in the exercise of professional skill and in the application of learning, in an effort to accomplish the purpose for which the investigator was employed.
Jim
I may have tried to simplify the proposed wording too much. Would you and the others wanting a standard of care be willing to accept the following wording as the standard of care for our profession?
In performing professional services for a client, a investigator has the duty to have that degree of learning and skill ordinarily possessed by reputable investigators, practicing in the same or similar locality and under similar circumstances. It is investigator’s further duty to use the care and skill ordinarily used in like cases by reputable members of the profession practicing in the same or similar locality under similar circumstances, and to use reasonable diligence and investigator’s best judgment in the exercise of professional skill and in the application of learning, in an effort to accomplish the purpose for which the investigator was employed.
Jim
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