[ 2016-11-12 ]

Enforce regulations on engineering practice
The Managing Director of the Graphic
Communications Group Limited (GCGL), Ing. Kenneth
Ashigbey, has urged the Engineering Council to
strictly enforce the rules and regulations
governing the engineering profession.
He said the council needed to step up its efforts
to root out all the quacks in the profession and
ensure that all engineering professionals were
certified by the council.

“We have lots of people coming as engineers, but
most of them do not have qualifications and the
expertise,” he said.

Ing. Ashigbey, an engineer by profession, made
the appeal when a delegation from the Engineering
Council paid a courtesy call on him at his office
in Accra yesterday.

The delegation explored the possibility of using
the company’s newspapers to propagate the
council’s activities and mandate.

Continuous learning

Ing. Ashigbey said most of the country’s
challenges were engineering problems and it was
the duty of the council to help solve those
challenges.

He recalled the Melcom disaster which claimed more
than 14 lives as being the result of an
engineering problem.

To remain relevant in the fast changing world,
Ing. Ashigbey said engineers needed to upgrade
themselves through continuous learning, suggesting
peer review of engineering projects.

Ing. Ashigbey pledged GCGL’s support for the
council.

Registration of engineers

The Chairman of the council, Ing. Augustine
Kuuire, indicated that the council was working to
ensure that the proper structures were put in
place to ensure the effective regulation of
engineers in the country.

As part of its mandate, he said the council would
soon start registering and enforcing the
discipline of registered engineering
practitioners, engineering companies and firms, as
well as regulate and certify the education,
training and practice of engineering.

He added that the council would collaborate with
the National Accreditation Board (NAB) and other
bodies to certify programmes of education for
engineering practice.

While fostering international cooperation with
other engineering councils, Ing. Kuuire said the
council would license relevant and appropriate
engineering bodies to certify individuals and
corporate bodies for initial and continuing
registration.

“All engineering practitioners, engineering
firms, licensed bodies and educational units that
offer engineering as a course of instruction, as a
matter of necessity must, therefore, register with
the council,” he added.

He listed the engineering practitioners obliged to
register with the council to include professional
engineers, professional engineering technologists,
engineering technicians and engineering
craftsmen.

Ing. Kuuire said the council was seeking a
partnership with the media to sensitise the public
to its mandate and regulations which would be
enforced.

“The need to assure the highest professional
standards in the practice of engineering for
society and national development and to
effectively promote the advancement of science,
engineering and technology cannot be
over-emphasised,” he said.

Source - Graphiconline

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