Guidance
The Engineering Council produces guidance material covering a range of topics to support professional engineers and technicians to understand and apply the standards set out in UK-SPEC.
This guidance provides a broad view of each topic, to be read alongside materials produced by professional engineering institutions relating to specific disciplines 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.