Terms of Reference

Audit & Risk Committee

To assess the effectiveness of risk management and internal controls across the organisation, reporting to and advising the Board of Trustees.

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Books Editorial Board

The Books Editorial Bood advise IChemE and its publishing partners, Elsevier, of the institution’s book publications strategy and support the strategy by facilitating introductions to suitable contacts.

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Commercial Panel

The Commercial Panel will provide counsel, guidance, and soundings on a variety of commercial matters, and is responsible for oversight of the Institution’s commercial activity.

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Conference Technical Committee

To serve on an IChemE conference technical committee.

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Dispute Resolution Committee

The Dispute Resolution Committee provides IChemE’s dispute resolution service by drafting and preparing for publication the various Dispute Resolution Rules published by IChemE; maintaining the IChemE lists of appropriately qualified dispute resolvers and nominating dispute resolvers when IChemE is asked to do so.

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Finance & HR Committee

The purpose of the Committee is to is to review and make recommendations to the Board of Trustees on IChemE’s financial and investment affairs, and to oversee all matters relating to the remuneration of staff, with specific responsibility for setting the remuneration policy and salaries for the Senior Management Team.

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Global Awards Committee

To review, score and decide winners of IChemE Global Awards.

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Governance Panel

The role of the Governance Panel is to regularly review the Institution’s governing documents. To ensure that documents remain up to date, relevant to the needs of the Institution, compliant with external regulatory and relevant legislative requirements, and published guidelines and recommendations of the Charity Commission.

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IChemE Safety Centre Advisory Board

The ISC Advisory Board is solely responsible for recommending and reviewing the technical programme of the ISC. The ISC Advisory Board has no specific accountabilities.

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IChemE Safety Centre Charter

IChemE exists to advance chemical engineering worldwide for the benefit of society. Process safety is a critical element of chemical engineering. The IChemE Safety Centre is a division of IChemE that works directly with organisations to advance process safety. It takes overall leadership for the process safety strategy within IChemE through the Major Hazards Committee.

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Journal Editorial Board

To ensure the quality of IChemE’s journals through overall development and overseeing the peer review of manuscripts submitted to the journals.

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Karen Burt Award Panel

The purpose of this panel is to review eligible chartered engineer applicants against Karen Burt Award criteria in order to select a nominee for the IChemE entry to the annual Karen Burt Award which is run by The Women's Engineering Society (WES).

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Learned Society Committee

To give strategic direction to IChemE’s priorities and to steer IChemE’s activities as a Learned Society.

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Loss Prevention Panel

To assist and advise in the production of the Loss Prevention Bulletin, a bi-monthly journal that seeks to prevent future accidents in the process industries by investigating and disseminating the lessons learned from past incidents, sharing best practice and relevant news.

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Major Hazards Committee

The Major Hazards Committee (MHC) is the volunteer body that leads major hazards strategy within IChemE. The MHC provides an environment where the agendas of the different IChemE major hazards groups involved can be communicated, coordinated and aligned to an overarching IChemE major hazards strategy.

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Medal and Prizes Committee

To oversee the operation of IChemE’s awards, prizes and medals processes and ensure these create maximum benefit for IChemE and the chemical engineering profession.

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Medals Committee Delegated Judging Committee

To assess the nominations received for IChemE’s delegated medals and propose a recipient for the medals for confirmation by the Medals and Prizes Committee.

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Member Engagement Committee

The core purpose of the Member Engagement Committee is to support, facilitate and encourage Local Member Groups and Branches to deliver “supporting members” and aim 3 of Strategy 2024.

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National Boards/Branches Terms of Reference

IChemE National Boards exist to support the national membership and the Board of Trustees by providing regional representation particularly for countries outside of the UK.

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Nominations Committee

The role of the Nominations Committee is to confirm the eligibility and determine the suitability of candidates for the Board of Trustees (the Board), and of any other nominations that the Board of Trustees shall request.

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Professional Formation Forum Standard Panel

The Standards Panel is a sub-committee of the Professional Formation Forum (PFF) with specific responsibility for overseeing the correct application of standards to the admission and readmission to, and transfer of Members within, the Membership Roll; together with specific responsibility for overseeing the standards applied to all the professionally qualified grades of membership and their respective registrations.

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Professional Formation Forum Terms of Reference

To oversee operationally and tactically IChemE’s professional qualifications worldwide with regards to membership and registration.

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Publications Medal Committee

To assess IChemE’s publications and nominate recipients for IChemE’s publication medals.

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Qualifications Committee

The Qualifications Committee is responsible to the Board of Trustees for the role of the Institution as a qualifying body.

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Succession Planning Committee

The role of the Succession Planning Committee is to identify and encourage suitably qualified and experienced members to apply for the elected appointments on the Board of Trustees.

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