Tennessee Burglar and Fire Alarm Association

The following code is intended to aid member firms of the Tennessee Burglar and Fire Alarm Association (hereinafter referred to as Members) and their employees individually and collectively in maintaining a high level of ethical conduct. It is evolved out of the experience of Members and is binding on all member firms and their employees.

1. We will further the public interest by contributing to the development of a better understanding and use of the capabilities, abilities, and technical skills of the electrical protection industry of the United States of America and neighboring countries and by accepting our responsibilities to the communities within which we live and work.
2. We will represent our qualifications to prospective clients solely in terms of our ability, experience and reputation and will strive continuously to improve our knowledge, skills and techniques to make available to our clients the benefit of our professional attainment.

3. We will always be mindful of the trust placed in us by our subscribers and of our responsibility to render services at the highest level of quality.

4. We will assure that all of our employees are carefully oriented so that they will clearly understand company operations, policies, and procedures and their relationship with subscriber companies and their employees.

5. We will apply uniform and equitable standards of employment opportunity and assure that the best possible use is made of the abilities, technical and other, of our employees regardless of race, creed, color, sex or age.

6. We will endeavor to provide opportunity for the professional advancement of those employees who enter the electrical protection industry by assisting them to acquire additional knowledge and competence in their technical skills and to keep up with the significant advances in the state of the art.

7. We will maintain a wholly professional attitude toward those we serve, those who assist us, toward other firms in the industry, toward the members of other professions, and toward the practitioners of allied arts and sciences.

8. We will respect the reputation and practice of other firms in the electrical protection industry but we will expose, without hesitation, conduct which may be unethical to the proper NBFAA authority.

Be it resolved, then: that the Tennessee Burglar and Fire Alarm Association Members be guided always by a spirit of justice, honor and fairness in all dealings with subscribers, other clients, and members of their own and associated industries.