Standard of care
Definition
The level of skill, knowledge, and practice that a reasonably competent engineer in the same discipline and jurisdiction would have exercised under the same circumstances. Standards are evidence of the standard of care but not always co-extensive with it.
Related terms
- Mandatory code
- A standard incorporated by reference into statute or regulation, such that violation constitutes a legal breach and may support negligence per se...
- Negligence per se
- A common law doctrine under which violation of a statute or mandatory code is treated as automatic breach of the duty of...
- NFPA 921
- US National Fire Protection Association Guide for Fire and Explosion Investigations. The internationally accepted methodology Indian fire investigators and SFSL fire divisions...
- State of the art
- The level of technical knowledge and practice available at the time of design or construction, used in some jurisdictions as a defence...
- Voluntary standard
- A consensus document representing best practice at the time of publication, departure from which is relevant but not conclusive evidence of negligence....
Explained in
- Engineering Standards and Codes in Failure AnalysisThe level of skill, knowledge, and practice that a reasonably competent engineer in the same discipline and jurisdiction would have exercised under the same ci...