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IHEEM is among a number of professional engineering institutes and other influential bodies to feature in a paper published early last month by the Royal Academy of Engineering that summarises what engineers can do, and have already been doing, to ‘lessen the impact of the coronavirus pandemic’, ‘contribute as the lockdown eases’, and help to ‘build a resilient future’. The introduction to the paper, COVID- 19: Engineering a resilient future, emphasises that ‘as the UK tentatively emerges from lockdown, engineers can play a strong
leadership role to identify and manage the socio- technical, economic, and systemic risks, which could limit further harmful impact from this crisis, advising government on how to engineer a more resilient future’. The paper
summarises how engineers can ‘transform their ideas
into advice and action, minimising the risk and impact of COVID-19 for the UK beyond the immediate crisis response, to secure a more resilient future’. It draws on evidence and insights from Fellows of the RAE and partners to the National Engineering Policy centre (of which IHEEM is one), which the Academy leads, and which collectively represents 450,000 engineers UK-wide. It includes several case studies illustrating how the engineering community has already provided rapid support and advice on the COVID-19 pandemic. Areas covered range from ‘Identifying interdependencies across national infrastructure to support resilience planning’, ‘Cybersecurity in a COVID-19 world’, and ‘Supply chain vulnerability’, to ‘Managing the transmission of COVID-19 in hospital environments’ – to which IHEEM contributed, alongside the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE), the Institution of Mechanical Engineering (the IMechE), and the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine (IPEM). Other areas covered included ‘Emerging from the lockdown – safely re-occupying buildings’, and ‘Contact tracing’. With the UK ‘still living with the pandemic’, and with ‘new data and information emerging every day’, the paper presents the ‘engineering response’ in three stages:
n Lessening the impact. n Easing the lockdown. n Building a resilient future.
It outlines how engineers can contribute during each phase.
IHEEM’s active part and initiatives As a National Engineering Policy Centre partner, IHEEM is proud to have been credited as having been ‘highly active’ in
the support it has provided, and the actions it has taken, since the coronavirus outbreak began. In particular, the paper highlights that the Institute has: n Issued national and international ‘call-outs’ to its individual and corporate members for technical and professional support to both NHS England & Improvement (NHS E&I) and the World Health Organization (WHO). On the paper’s
publication, approximately 150 offers of help and support had already been forwarded directly to NHS E&I and the WHO via the International Federation of Healthcare Engineers (IFHE).
n Effectively engaged with NHS E&I and the Devolved Administrations ‘to quickly and effectively disseminate their key messages out to the membership’.
n Developed free toolkits to support frontline engineering staff – for example the ‘Medical Gas Oxygen COVID-19 Demand Tool’, and the ‘Medical Gas Cylinder Management and Tracking Tool’.
n Published a fortnightly international newsletter ‘to share intelligence, best practice, and personal experiences’ with its global membership.
n Established a focused specialist Technical Panel to respond to national and local calls for specialist advice and guidance on the technical engineering challenges raised by COVID-19.
n Developed and published factsheets on key topics – for example, reprocessing of PPE.
n Worked closely with the Estates and Facilities team at NHS E&I to develop future standards guidance and policy, and, in collaboration with RAE, influence Government engineering policy, including STEM.
July 2020 Health Estate Journal 7
What engineers can do as the lockdown eases
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