Guidance
Putting Standards into practice: guidance for responsible engineering.
Our guidance helps engineers and technicians understand and apply the professional Standards set out in UK-SPEC.
It provides trusted, practical advice on issues that affect professional practice and the responsibilities engineers have to society. From sustainability, risk and ethical practice to building safety, security and diversity and inclusion, our guidance supports professionals to make responsible decisions throughout their careers.
Our guidance provides a broad view of each topic and should be read alongside guidance from professional engineering institutions, including discipline-specific guidance and codes of professional conduct.
Diversity and inclusion
Guidance for engineering professionals to help understanding and application of Standards relating to diversity and inclusion.
Diversity and inclusion
Guidance on building safety
Keep abreast of developments in building safety as the profession seeks to apply lessons learned from Grenfell
Guidance on sustainability
Professionally registered engineers and technicians are required to carry out their work in a way that contributes to sustainable development, outlined in UK-SPEC.
Guidance on risk
The Engineering Council’s guidance on risk describes the role of professional engineers and technicians in dealing with risk, and their responsibilities to society.
Guidance on ethical principles
This guidance contains four fundamental principles and is designed to form the core of the codes of conduct published by the Licensed PEIs.
Guidance on security
This guidance contains six principles to guide engineers and technicians in identifying, assessing, managing and communicating issues about security.
Guidance on whistleblowing
Our guidance on whistleblowing describes whistleblowing and the processes that engineers and technicians should follow when confronted by a potential whistleblowing situation.