[ Professionals ]

“Professions are characterised by a collective body of knowledge, and education process, standards for admission to the profession, standards of conduct, a recognised status, and collective values. A key value for professionals working with potentially hazardous infrastructure, is that public safety is paramount.”

This is from the recently published engineering practise guide: ‘Public Safety in the Pipeline Industry’, a document for which I was part of the author team.  Those 45 words  are really… dry, hard to interpret, and often skimmed or overlooked entirely.  Yet they mean so much.  That’s what the 25-page guideline is trying to bring to life.