ENGINEERING ETHICS AND ENGINEERS ACT

There are 3 laws that stated in Board of Engineers (BEM) which is Engineers Act 1967 (Rev.
2007), Regulations of 1990 (Rev. 2003) and Code of Professional Conduct. In Engineers Act
1967 (act 138), there are list of guidelines to be followed for those engineers that interested in
offering their consultant to customers such as
Every application by a sole proprietorship, partnership or body corporate for registration
as an Engineering consultancy practice shall be made to the Board in the prescribed form
and manner and shall be accompanied by the prescribed fee.
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Board of Engineers Malaysia (BEM) has received complaints from the public about the
conduct of engineer relation to the Registration of Engineers Act. Since then, they have
produced the guidelines for engineers. Based on Brief Introduction to Code of Ethics for
Young Engineers that has been published on 9th of August 2005, several of the guidelines are
related regarding our topic. Under the Registration of Engineers Act. 1967 (Act 138), the
most recent being year 2002, it is a must that any person providing engineering service must
be registered with BEM. There are some of the Dos and Donts related.
Donts

An engineer should not enter into partnership with any party not permitted

under the Engineers Act

An engineering Consultancy Practice should not provide professional services
in any branch of engineering where none of its directors are registered to

practice in that branch of engineering

An engineer must not practice in the branch of engineering he is not
registered in.

Meanwhile for consultancy, in the Registration of Engineers Act 1967 (Revised 2002),
provision is included for the registration of Accredited Checkers.
Dos

A checker engineer should take full responsibility for the checking work
himself

Donts

An engineer should not endorse any work not performed and/or supervised by

him.
An engineer should not have any conflict of interest whatsoever with the work

he is undertaking unless prior approval from BEM and client are obtained.
An engineer should not accept work outside his regular work without the
expressed permission of his employer

The supervision of works designed by the submitting Engineer is a requirement under the
UniformBuilding By-Law 5 (UBBL 5).

Dos

An engineer who is the submitting person should be responsible for the project
regardless of whether it is self-supervised and/or delegated supervision

The above stated law that related when an engineer want to divert the passion on something
else than his/her usual job. Assuming in the case that practice engineer want to build a
company, they have to follow this Dos and Donts.