What is Your Engineering New Year’s Resolution?

As we prepare to step into 2025, we asked readers what New Year’s Resolutions they are setting for themselves and the resolutions they’d suggest for the wider profession. Here we go…

Resolutions for the profession

Increase the emphasis of hands-on experience for students and those engineers who don’t get to see their work in operation. Peter Dixon

Build sustainability into solutions as if it is inherent safety. Only then will there be significant focus on this. Laura Grindey

Consider ways to improve the quality of life of millions in less developed countries by researching low technology food storage and preservation systems rather than being preoccupied with carbon emissions. Graham Godfrey

Learn and work with new technologies including AI. It is important for chemical engineers to know new technologies that are driving growth, enhancing productivity and safety. Oluwatoyin Fatona

Spend half an hour a week looking through available resources describing lessons from past incidents (eg Loss Prevention Bulletin, ICI/Trevor Kletz newsletters, CSB videos and reports). Take steps to ensure that they don’t reoccur in your own workplace. Steve Beer

Be open to wider collaboration and information sharing across entire industry value chains as an opportunity to create safer, more innovative outcomes that benefit everyone socially, economically and environmentally. Alan Blake