Terms of Reference
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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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Community of Practice
Communities of Practice exist to provide a platform for the fulfilment of IChemE’s objective to advance the contribution of chemical engineering worldwide for the benefit of society, by delivering consistent engaging programmes of activity, stimulating member involvement, and enhancing the value associated with membership.
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Conference Technical Committee
To serve on an IChemE conference technical committee.
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Digitalisation Committee
The Digitalisation Committee (DigiCom) coordinates and steers IChemE’s activities as a Learned Society in the area of digitalisation.
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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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Education Subcommittee
The Education Subcommittee is responsible to the Membership & Qualifications Committee for defining and assessing the knowledge and, understanding the Educational Base required to meet the standard for professionally qualified membership of the Institution.
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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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Learned Society Forum
The Learned Society Forum facilitate collaboration, the exchange of ideas and good practice between the various groups that actively contribute to IChemE’s activities as a learned society and to give input into the strategic direction of IChemE 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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Members Group Terms of Reference
To provide a platform for the fulfilment of IChemE’s objective by delivering consistent engaging programmes of activity, stimulating member involvement and driving engagement and enhancing value.
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Membership & Qualifications Committee
The Membership & Qualifications Committee (MQC) is responsible to the Board of Trustees for the role of the Institution as a qualifying body.
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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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National Early Careers Group
To facilitate collaboration, the exchange of ideas and good practice between an inter-connected community of Early Career Engineers (ECE) in collaboration with and regional groups.
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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 Development Subcommittee
The Professional Development Subcommittee is responsible to the Membership & Qualifications Committee (MQC) for developing the policy for and overseeing the operation of Accredited Company Training Schemes (ACTS), self-managed routes through Initial Professional Development (IPD) and implementing IChemE’s CPD strategy.
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Publications Medal Committee
To assess IChemE’s publications and nominate recipients for IChemE’s publication medals.
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Registration Subcommittee
The Registration Subcommittee (RSub) is responsible to the Membership & Qualifications Committee (MQC) for admitting applicants to professionally qualified membership and Fellowship and for registering suitable applicants with the Engineering Council, Science Council, Society for the Environment, Board of Professional Engineers Queensland, and Environment Agency (ESOS) in accordance with each regulator’s requirements.
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Special Interest Groups
Special Interest Groups help fulfil IChemE’s objective, to advance the contribution of chemical engineering worldwide for the benefit of society, by delivering consistent engaging programmes of activity, and stimulating member involvement within a technical area of interest.
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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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