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Time for licenced Engineers?

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As a result of a discussion within a Linkedin group. I had originally raised the issue of the EC UK or IET legally licencing Engineers and had agreed to bring this discussion from Linkedin to the IET members in an appropriate community for a frank and open debate.

​The circumstances surrounding this discussion was the tragedy of Grenfell Towers and my personal observation that some of the alleged decision makers, had no technical qualifications to make decisions on public safety. I am wondering how far the inquiry will go to reveal that issue. 

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As I currently work in Canada we do have an act of law governing the conduct of its licenced Engineers and this makes the Engineer have some higher degree of responsibility for public safety.


​Questions

1)    Given the impact of Grenfell, does EC(UK) have to now start considering licencing? What are the perceived hurdles to achieve this?

​2)    If not. What can we do within our profession to improve pubic safety with an objective to prevent another 'Grenfell' ?


I am ​Interested to get IET members responses.

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    Roy,

    Well said! I can't see that the advertising of Trainee Engineer opportunities can have any detrimental effect on the profession as a whole. It is also potentially accurate even by the narrow definition of the 'snobbish', as with 3,000 openings it is quite likely that some will progress to CEng. I think you are right in your last paragraph that we need to demonstrate unity. However to demonstrate unity we need to have some compromise, and that can be notoriously difficult (just look at the Brexit discussions in parliament). The big problem with negotiation and compromise is everyone needs to participate and if parliament has trouble with only 650ish people trying to find a compromise, how are we going to manage with hundreds of thousands. Though if we don't try, we certainly won't solve the problem.

    Alasdair
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    Roy,

    Well said! I can't see that the advertising of Trainee Engineer opportunities can have any detrimental effect on the profession as a whole. It is also potentially accurate even by the narrow definition of the 'snobbish', as with 3,000 openings it is quite likely that some will progress to CEng. I think you are right in your last paragraph that we need to demonstrate unity. However to demonstrate unity we need to have some compromise, and that can be notoriously difficult (just look at the Brexit discussions in parliament). The big problem with negotiation and compromise is everyone needs to participate and if parliament has trouble with only 650ish people trying to find a compromise, how are we going to manage with hundreds of thousands. Though if we don't try, we certainly won't solve the problem.

    Alasdair
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