1. An Introduction to PPIR
Christine Kanellakis,
Implementing PPIR Project Director
This slide set was presented to the a specialist engineering group (Biomedical Engineers) in Melbourne. A video of presentation and the following Q&A session is also available.
The annotation of this slide set is provided in order to assist other members of the PPIR Project teams who need to prepare presentations, especially for similar specialist groups representing a single industry sector or engineering discipline.

2. What is the Warren Centre for Advanced Engineering?
Self-funding, non-profit, independent, industry-linked institute
Based at the University of Sydney
Fostering excellence & innovation in engineering
Projects on issues of national significance
Around 6 or 7 years ago, we were approached by the Warren Centre to be a sponsor for the PPIR project.
The Warren Centre is essentially an industry funded think tank which addresses issues of importance to the Australian engineering professions and industry
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In 2004 they started the project Professional Performance Innovation and Risk – or PPIR.
They set up a project team of leading engineers, many retired senior managers and held workshops and discussions with a wide range of engineers.
They carried out a detailed review of professional performance innovation and risk in the Australian engineering practice
Focussing in particular on what constitutes performance for the professional engineer
So how does the PPIR Protocol add to the professionalism of engineers

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5. Why Do We Need PPIR?
“A common underlying theme is that there is no shared and accepted view within the engineering profession, and between buyers and sellers of engineering, of the engineering perspective that should govern the relationships between the parties to an engineering task and of the professional engineer’s duty and standard of care in that task.”

6. I guess I should have defined the job a bit better
The engineer told me he’d done one of these before.
We actually would have preferred a tunnel

7. What is at the core of PPIR?
Engineering profession already has Ethics and Competency standards
Ethics
Competency

8. Ethics

9. Competency
Demonstrated when judged by one’s peers to be eligible for registration by:
National Engineering Registration Board
(and in Queensland by
Board of Professional Engineers QLD)
Elements of Competency
Knowledge and skill
Engineering application ability
Professional and personal attributes

10. What is at the core of PPIR?
Engineering profession already has Ethics and Competency standards
The PPIR Protocol defines “professional performance” in engineering
Ethics
Competency
Performance
Performance :
“How does the professional engineer approach, arrange and undertake a new task to ensure delivery of the final agreed outcome”

11. The PPIR Performance Protocol
The eight elements of
The PPIR Performance
Protocol

12. What is our plan for PPIR?
Benefits
Integrated Change Program
PPIR Protocol
AS.PPIR Guide to Contracting
Risk Framework
Improving Liability Framework
Defines role, obligations and “duty and standard of care”
“Best practice template”
A formal, fully integrated “best for risk management” approach
Including approach to expert witnesses

13. The PPIR Protocol offers
Employees & employers:
A guide on how to perform tasks professionally
Clear definition of individual and team expectations & responsibilities
Greater confidence in future assessment of professional judgment
A complement to top/down corporate processes
More effective & productive employees & higher standards of commercial decision making

14. PPIR Protocol & Change Plan offers
Buyers:
Best for project/ product philosophy
Mechanism for measuring performance of contractors
Better risk management
More confidence in innovation
Suppliers:
Emphasis on defining the task not on remedies
More balance & equity – a level playing field
Better risk management allowing for innovation & improved insurance profile

15. PPIR Protocol & Change Plan Offers
The Engineering Profession:
Greater understanding by the public of the profession of engineering
Greater recognition of the engineer
Increased status of engineering

16. Implementing PPIR TWC BOARD Steering Committee Management Committee
The project has a management structure
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And individual project teams
Communication
Education & Training
Industry Adoption
Standards
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The implementation of PPIR is not being mandated by law or direction from any authority
So it is highly dependent on communication to generate exposure, understanding and support for the project.
It uses a wide variety of media
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A website which provides access to all project information
Our LinkedIn group for keeping updated on development and participating in discussion
Publication of articles in magazines and on-line sites
Conferences – such as this one
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18. A Project about Engineering Professionalism in the 21st Century
The PPIR report
Winner of the NSW Engineers Australia Engineering Excellence Award 2010
A Project about Engineering Professionalism in the 21st Century