Regulation of Engineering in Australia and its Impact on Productivity

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Previous Attempts to Regulate Entry Standards to Professional University Degrees in Australia
and their Eventual Impact................................................................................................................5
Impact of Engineering Registration Systems in Australia...........................................................6
The Impact of Regulatory Schemes on Productivity and Efficiency...........................................8
Comparison between Australia’s Engineering Regulations with Policy Measures Enacted in
Other Countries..............................................................................................................................10
Registration and Licensing of Engineers Internationally...........................................................11
Canada........................................................................................................................................11
United States of America...........................................................................................................11
United Kingdom.........................................................................................................................11
New Zealand..............................................................................................................................12
Japan...........................................................................................................................................12
Greece........................................................................................................................................13
Germany.....................................................................................................................................13
Korea..........................................................................................................................................13
Comparison between Australia’s Engineering Regulations with Policy Measures Enacted in
Other Countries..........................................................................................................................13
The Sustainability Implications of Lower Entry Standards to the Engineering and Information
Technology Professions from Civil Engineering Perspective.......................................................15
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................16
References......................................................................................................................................18

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Introduction
Currently, there is no society or nation that can thrive without embracing of engineering
at some point. In regard to the teaching perspectives the principles of engineering as well as the
products of engineering are all around teachers and students. For instance, objects such as seats,
buildings as well as other teaching materials among many other things around the world could
have been in existence without engineering and engineers (Bong, Rameezdeen, Zuo, Li, & Ye,
2015). Therefore, education is important to both present and future generations. Hence, the
prospect of education will make engineers ever more important. Engineering services are crucial
to the economic progress of Australia as well as its social well-being. In this sense, Australia is
fortunate to be in passion of a solid base of globally treasured engineering expertise and
experience in its engineering colleges, corporations and specialized associations. Nevertheless,
as Australia endeavors to become a unified competitive nationwide economy at both local and
international in driving continued production growth; it is believed the inconsistent legislation
has been creating a hindrance and red tape layers hindering certain critical service suppliers
within the engineering economy. Hence this issue need to be deliberated and addressed.
Scholars and academicians are certain that similar considerations should be provided to
harmonize the Australian engineers’ regulation in all territories and states. This could serve as a
significant milestone in reforming the productivity of Australia (Dandy, Daniell, Foley, &
Warner, 2017). In this sense, this paper seeks to investigate ways that engineers are presently
regulated in Australia and demonstrate the actual as well as probable adverse effects the existing
regulatory framework has on the productivity of engineers and the safety of the public (Bong et
al., 2015). In addition to that, it demonstrate how the regulatory framework is worsening the skill
scarcities with possibly harmful effects to the national economy. This paper will as well as

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compare Australia’s existing reengineering regulations with policy measures enacted in other
countries and assess the desirability of their applications to the engineering professions in
Australia. Lastly but not least, the paper will assess the sustainability implications of lower entry
standards to the engineering and information technology professions from the perspective of civil
engineering.
Previous Attempts to Regulate Entry Standards to Professional University Degrees in
Australia and their Eventual Impact
Currently Australia does not have a uniform regulatory regime that convers engineers.
Engineering services are controlled by several Acts: orders-in council, by-laws and regulators. A
majority of the regulations are connected to the construction and building industry. For instance,
in Queensland State engineers are required to be registered to render proficient engineering
services. This means that in other states in Australia engineers are not registered but they provide
professional engineering services. In some states they have de facto registering systems, whereby
engineers carrying out certain work should be registered on a nationwide engineering index. The
National Engineering Registration Board (BERB) governs the voluntary cataloging of engineers
and sets competence criteria. NERB is supported by the Association of Consulting Engineers
Australia, currently referred to as Consult Australia. The NERB has representation by all
Territory governments and States, professional associations and community organizations
(Dandy, Daniell, Foley, & Warner, 2017). Therefore, NERB supervises several National
Registers governed by Engineers Australia such as National Engineering Technologists Register
(NETR), National Professional Engineers Register (NPER), and National Engineering
Associates Register (NEAR). These registers are tasked with administration services to safeguard
the community.