Professional standards schemes: Your benefits
Increased protection
The main objective of professional standards schemes is to make sure associations and their members deliver ongoing improvements in consumer protection.
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By limiting civil liability, professional standards schemes ensure that, if anything goes wrong, professionals have insurance or assets available to meet damages awarded.
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You’ll work with people who, through their association, have committed to improving professional standards and upholding their obligations as professionals.
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More than 86,000 lawyers, accountants, engineers, property and other professionals across Australia now take part in a professional standards scheme.
But what are they? How do they help improve professional standards and services? And most importantly, how do they protect you – the consumer – when you use a professional covered by a professional standards scheme?
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