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Roles Responsibilities in Engineering

The document discusses the roles and responsibilities of various stakeholders in the engineering profession in South Africa. The government established the Engineering Council of South Africa (ECSA) to regulate the profession by setting standards, accrediting programs, registering professionals, and enforcing codes of conduct. ECSA works closely with voluntary associations (VAs) who represent members' interests, promote ethics and best practices, provide experts and mentors, and contribute to policy development. The roles of ECSA include setting standards, registration, and discipline, while VAs focus on education, training, advocacy, and services for members. Both work to advance the profession in the public interest.

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Roles Responsibilities in Engineering

The document discusses the roles and responsibilities of various stakeholders in the engineering profession in South Africa. The government established the Engineering Council of South Africa (ECSA) to regulate the profession by setting standards, accrediting programs, registering professionals, and enforcing codes of conduct. ECSA works closely with voluntary associations (VAs) who represent members' interests, promote ethics and best practices, provide experts and mentors, and contribute to policy development. The roles of ECSA include setting standards, registration, and discipline, while VAs focus on education, training, advocacy, and services for members. Both work to advance the profession in the public interest.

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A Note on Roles and Responsibilities in the Engineering Profession

A number of role-players and stakeholders have an interest in the regulation of the engineering
profession: government, the profession itself (statutory and voluntary), industry, higher education
and the public. Government recognised the need to regulate the profession and legislated the
establishment of a professional regulatory body, Engineering Council of South Africa (ECSA) to
perform defined functions.

ECSA’s core functions are: setting standards for education and professional competence, evaluating
and accrediting education programmes, assessing the competency of applicants for registration,
maintaining a register of registered professionals, setting and enforcing codes of conduct and
practice, and investigating misconduct.

ECSA operates closely with the voluntary associations (VAs) whose task is to promote the interests of
their members and discipline with due regard to the public interest. VAs promote technical,
professional and ethical behavior in the practice. They promote education, training, render services
to their members and recognise their achievements.

The table below lists various responsibilities for ECSA and the VAs
It is important to note that not all voluntary associations perform all the functions listed. VAs work
closely with the statutory body and are in fact, the main source of nominations for persons to serve
on council, committees, as programme evaluators, assessors and mentors who also make inputs
into policy development.

The input of the VAs is a critical success factor for ECSA to achieve decision making by peer
judgment. Individuals play roles in one or more of the areas identified above: education, industry,
the voluntary associations or the statutory regulatory body.

Table: ECSA and Voluntary Associations


Mission and Functions of ECSA Generic mission and functions of a VA having
individual members
To regulate the profession of engineering in To act for the benefit of members and in the
the public interest through the following public interest through some or all of the
specific functions: following functions:
 Setting standards for education and  Promote education and training and the
competence of engineering professionals renewal of the profession
and specified categories  Maintain contact with appropriate national
 Quality assuring and accrediting educational and international organizations
qualifications  Advance the science, technology and
 Seek and maintain international mutual professional knowledge and improve practice
recognition of accredited qualifications in the discipline
 Evaluates qualifications that are not  Be a source of programme and qualification
accredited or recognised evaluators for ECSA
 Be a source of expertise for setting standards
 Providing guidance on training toward  Be a source of (external) mentors for

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registration candidates and assessors of registration
 Assessing applicants for registration applicants for ECSA
 Maintaining a register of registered persons  Maintain a list of members
in the categories
 Publish and enforce a code of professional  Advance and uphold the professional ethics
conduct  Uphold the profession’s image, status and
 Identify work reserved for registered interests
persons  Advocacy for the discipline and profession
 Investigate complaints about registered  Advance best practice in engineering
persons and conduct disciplinary action as  Encourage members to strive for excellence in
required engineering practice.
 Participate in international mobility  Participate in mutual recognition agreements
agreements; maintain a section of the and maintain contact with international
International Register organizations
 Setting CPD requirements and monitoring  Promotion and provision of CPD and
achievements validation of CPD offerings
 Provide engineering leadership and advice  Contributes to development of national policy
to society & government  Act in the interest of the sector or public in
 Act in the public interest in any way relation to sector
necessary
 Be a voice for the profession in common  Represent and render services to members
and regulatory matters  Enhance the recognition of the discipline as a
 Develops policies, positions and guidelines highly respected profession and a desirable
 Communication and provision of career
information  Contribute to and comments on government
 Uphold the status and public recognition of policies and white papers on discipline specific
the profession issues.
 Contributes to the common interests and  Facilitate national debates, conferences and
welfare of the engineering community colloquiums
through recognition and close co-operation  Facilitate information exchange (Journals etc)
with engineering VAs  Recognise achievement by advancement of
individual members by higher grades of
membership and awards
 Contributes to the common interests and
welfare of the engineering community
through close co-operation with ECSA.

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