DESIGN VERIFICATION
 

Index Engineering Ltd is a Type C Inspection Body.

This means that we have satisfied IANZ that the inspection body activities of Index Engineering are a clearly identifiable part of our business, and that we provide safeguards within the organisation to ensure adequate segregation of responsibilities and accountabilities between inspection and other activities. We have been approved to design AND design verify pressure piping and pressure vessels, with assurance of impartiality. For this kind of work, we satisfy the requirements of PECPR Regulations  Policy - Type B&C Design Verification [Regulation 25(1)(i)] and follow the required reporting path configuration, giving you confidence that an engineer does not design verify his or her own designs.

Four of our design verifiers have a signatory role.

MBIE has recently (24th March) announced that Cabinet will be progressing a new regulatory regime for professional engineers. Cabinet has agreed to proposals to develop a bill to introduce a new 2-tiered regulatory regime for engineers, and to establish a new regulator to oversee the regime. "The bill will require all engineers to be registered, and for those in higher-risk disciplines to be licensed in order to practice. While a large number of engineers are highly professional, there are too many that are practicing with no checks on their professionalism or competence and there are few means to hold them to account if their standards slip," says Amy Moorehead, Manager Building Policy, MBIE. 

The bill is expected to be introduced later in 2022. We will be watching how this develops and what the implications are for our work. You can be assured of the professionalism of the Index Engineering team: we require our staff to be members of Engineering NZ (if eligible) and five of our engineers are Chartered Professional Engineers.

In 2017, WSP Opus was involved at a site where scaffolding collapsed (fortunately there were no serious injuries). It was not clear which party had specific responsibility for the scaffold design/supervision, but all parties had responsibility for the site to be safe to work at. WSP has subsequently produced a document providing guidance for the profession, to ensure that the learnings for this incident are shared.  
https://www.wsp.com/en-NZ/campaigns/engineer-in-safety