Board takes regulatory action against engineers in Queensland

Key Points:

Queensland engineers should check that anyone providing a professional engineering service is either registered, or being supervised by a registered engineer.

The Board of Professional Engineers Queensland has recently been very active in enforcing compliance with the Professional Engineers Act (Qld) 2002, particularly in respect of registration, provision of engineering services by unregistered interstate and overseas engineers, and supervision of unregistered engineers.

In this article we will consider the lessons to be drawn from these cases, affecting engineers both in private practice and those employed by a company or government department.

Providing services outside of an engineer's field of registration