Functions

According to the Engineering Technology Act (Section 5), KETRB is established to carry out the following functions:

1. Issue licenses to qualified persons under the provisions of the Act;
2. Take disciplinary measures in accordance with the provisions of the Act;
3. Enter and inspect sites where construction, installation, erection, alteration, renovation, maintenance, processing or manufacturing works are in progress for the purpose of verifying that: -
   

   i)      Engineering professional services and works are undertaken by registered engineering technology professionals  

   ii)    Set standards and professional ethics and relevant health and safety aspects are observed, in line with Occupational Safety and Health Act, No. 15 of 2007.

4. Assess, approve or reject engineering technology qualifications of foreign persons intending to offer engineering technology professional services or works in Kenya;  
5. Enter and inspect business premises for verification purposes or for monitoring works, services and goods rendered by professional engineering technologists and technicians; 
6. Recommend for the suspension of any engineering technology professional services, works, projects, installation process or any other engineering technology works, which are done without meeting the standards; 
7. Participate, as a stakeholder in formulating engineering technology programs in public and private universities and other tertiary level educational institutions offering education in engineering technology for the purposes of registration of engineering technologists and technicians;
8. Set standards for engineering technologists and technicians in management, marketing, professional ethics, environmental issues, safety, legal matters or any other relevant field; 
9. Conduct professional examinations for the purposes of registration where applicable. 
10. Plan, arrange, co-ordinate and oversee professional training and facilitate internship of engineering technologists and technicians; 
11. Collaborate with engineering technology training institutions and organizations, professional associations and other relevant bodies in matters relating to training and professional development of engineering technologists and technicians; 
12. Determine the fees to be charged by engineering technologists, technicians and firms for professional services rendered from time to time; 
13. Hear and determine such disputes relating to the professional conduct or ethics of engineering technologists and technicians; 
14. Issue, maintain and enforce the code of ethics for engineering technologists and technicians and regulate the conduct and ethics of the engineering technology profession in general; 
15. Determine disciplines of engineering technology; and 
16. Do anything incidental or conducive to the performance of any of the preceding functions.