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    Engineers again rank second most trusted in UK: risk and safety mandate for projects

    December 12, 2025|

    Reviewed by Joe Ashwell

    Engineers again rank second most trusted in UK: risk and safety mandate for projects

    First reported on New Civil Engineer

    30 Second Briefing

    Engineers have again ranked as the UK’s second most trusted profession in the 2025 Ipsos Veracity Index, with a large majority of respondents saying they believe engineers tell the truth. The result places engineers just behind nurses and ahead of doctors, teachers and scientists in perceived honesty. For infrastructure and construction teams, this public confidence strengthens the mandate for engineers to lead on risk communication, safety decisions and major project trade-offs in areas such as flood defences, transport schemes and energy infrastructure.

    Technical Brief

    • Veracity Index methodology focuses on perceived truthfulness, directly linked to risk communication credibility.
    • High trust levels support transparent disclosure of residual risks in geotechnical and structural design reports.
    • Public confidence strengthens justification for conservative partial factors in Eurocode-based safety checks.
    • Trust metrics can be cited in stakeholder engagement for dams, flood defences and major transport corridors.
    • For safety-critical assets, trusted engineers are well placed to lead ALARP demonstrations and optioneering.
    • Similar trust rankings over multiple years give continuity for long-term asset management and project pipelines.

    Our Take

    Within the 39 Policy stories in our database, the United Kingdom appears frequently in connection with professional standards and safety regulation, so Ipsos’ 2025 Veracity Index results are likely to be cited in future debates on engineers’ roles in UK infrastructure oversight.

    For UK ‘Safety’ and ‘Projects’ coverage, trust in engineers tends to surface around public acceptance of major works (e.g. tunnelling, flood defences, nuclear), suggesting these Ipsos findings could strengthen the case for giving chartered engineers more visible responsibility in risk communication and sign-off processes.

    New Civil Engineer’s involvement aligns with a pattern in our Policy-tagged pieces where trade publications act as intermediaries between technical professions and policymakers, which can influence how UK government consultations frame engineering input on project safety rules.

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    Prepared by collating external sources, AI-assisted tools, and Geomechanics.io’s proprietary mining database, then reviewed for technical accuracy & edited by our geotechnical team.

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