Element 04×Engineering
Engineering in Stakeholders
Stakeholders and Customers
What Engineering owns here
This element governs how Engineering engages with everyone who is not Engineering — regulators, contractors, vendors, partners, asset teams and project stakeholders. Engineering's reputation for being a "closed shop" is born and dies in this element.
Example documents, by tier
Standard 1
- Supplier Technical Assurance RequirementsTypical exampleCompany-wideAlso in EI PSM · 18 Contractor and supplier, selection and managementAlso in Process Safety · Design integrityNot safety case critical
Process, procedure, work instruction 2
- Engineering Regulator Interface ProcedureTypical exampleCompany-wideAlso in EI PSM · 05 Communication with stakeholdersNot process safetyNot safety case critical
- Engineering Contractor Interface ProcedureTypical exampleCompany-wideAlso in EI PSM · 18 Contractor and supplier, selection and managementNot process safetyNot safety case critical
Supporting documents 1
- Supplier Quality Assessment QuestionnaireIn 1 of 3 operator registersCompany-wideAlso in EI PSM · 18 Contractor and supplier, selection and managementNot process safetyNot safety case critical
Guidance · outside the system 1
Informative, not a “shall”. These belong in the knowledge base, not the management system. How this works →
- Supplier Quality Performance Management GuidelinesIn 1 of 3 operator registersCompany-wideAlso in EI PSM · 18 Contractor and supplier, selection and managementNot process safetyNot safety case critical
Why these belong here
"Engineering's accountability ends where its management system ends. Element 4 is where the company is honest about that boundary — and engineers it deliberately, rather than discovering it by accident."
What does not live here
- →The procedures the contractor or vendor will execute — those areE07 Procedures
- →The technical assurance verification work itself — that'sE10 Assurance
- →The risk decisions taken at the interface — those areE05 Risk