Becomings: A Human Relations Code & Bias Incident Policy*

APS DPP is working to evolve from the current Code of Conduct for meetings to a Human Relations Code (HRC) and Bias Incident Policy (BIP) that will cover all members at all times. We will report on progress of the code and policy development. We contracted academic consultants to facilitate our grounding in Restorative Justice ideology and methodology to devise an HRC/BIP for DPP with a Restorative Justice mechanism and Conflict Mediation scaffolding. The APS DPP Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Accessibility (DEIA) Organizing Collective Committee (OCC) champions this effort as it addresses Recommendation A-2 from the Community Plan for Fusion Energy and Discovery Plasma Sciences. We are a DPP community member collective, affectionately deemed the HB Crew, tasked with growing our HRC/BIP. Specifically, we are completing Tools #3 & #4 of the Evidence-Based Practices (EBP) toolkit, a resource provided by the OCC, to improve the institutional climate at each workplace associated with the DPP community. We center on a systemic approach, employing the Healthy to Innovative (HTI) Framework, as the foundation for three major strategic action areas: the EBP Toolkit, the Diamond Model Implementation, and the Queryable Equity Database (QED). For references and more information, see: https://engage.aps.org/dpp/programs/dei-organizing-collective.