CPD and Audits
Audits
Registration on NPER and NETR carries with it an obligation to undertake continuing professional development (CPD), and demonstrate currency of practice. These are subject to audit, to ensure that critical professional requirements are being satisfied. Registered practitioners can expect to be audited about once every five years.About Currency of Practice
Registered practitioners must demonstrate that they continue to be engaged in independent practise for at least the equivalent of one full-time year during the past three years.
About Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
The intellectual capital of the engineering profession grows as its members invest in continuing professional development (CPD). An individual's potential for lifetime employability depends on the high levels of professional competence that come from continually upgrading skills and knowledge. Businesses gain a competitive edge when principals and staff identify learning needs and set about achieving them systematically. In today's rapidly changing technological world it is no longer possible to rely on basic engineering studies alone to provide professional advice and services competently.
Broadly speaking, CPD includes any activity that extends or updates your knowledge, skill or judgment in your area(s) of practice and enables you to:
- maintain technical competence;
- retain and enhance your effectiveness in the workplace;
- be able to help, influence and lead others by example;
- successfully deal with changes in your career; and
- better serve the community.
Engineers Australia Code of Ethics 
states that members and bound non-members shall continue to develop relevant knowledge, skill and expertise throughout their careers. Persons who are included on national registers but who choose not to join Engineers Australia are included in the class of bound non-members.
