Reviewer Terms

1. What you review

   You check articles in the chapters you’re assigned for technical accuracy against current practice and the sources they cite. Reviewing is voluntary and unpaid. You can turn down any article, and either of us can end the arrangement at any time.

2. A review is not an engineering service

   Signing off an article is not a seal, a signature or a professional engineering service on any project. It creates no client relationship with HeadLight, Pavement Interactive or any reader. Articles are general education. Readers stay responsible for having a licensed professional make the decisions on their own projects, and the site says so in its editorial standards.

3. Your license

   You hold an active professional engineering license and give us its state and number. We check it against the state board’s public lookup before your first sign-off and once a year after that. Tell us within 30 days if it lapses or a board takes action on it. If we can’t verify your license, sign-off is paused until we can.

4. How your name appears

   The revision you signed off shows your name with PE, your affiliation and the review date, and your name and affiliation are listed with the site’s reviewers in its editorial standards. Your name stays with that revision. When someone else reviews a later change, the page shows the newer review. You can ask us to remove your name at any time. The article then shows no review until another licensed engineer reviews it.

5. Your independence

   You state your employer or affiliation once. Declare a conflict on any article that discusses your employer’s products, methods or services; that article goes to another reviewer. Don’t use a review to promote a product, firm or service.

6. Your notes and edits

   Pavement Interactive may use, edit and publish the notes, edits and comments you make in the editor, without payment. You confirm you have the right to share them and that they contain no confidential information belonging to your employer or clients.

7. Your account

   Sign in with your own account and don’t share it. The editor keeps a record of what you review, approve and send back.

8. Your information

   We store your name, email, affiliation, license state and number, and the dates we checked them. Your license number is never shown publicly. The privacy page explains the rest.

9. Responsibility for what’s published

   HeadLight publishes Pavement Interactive and is responsible for its content. You give your review in good faith. HeadLight won’t hold you responsible for an error in an article you reviewed, unless you acted dishonestly or deliberately. The site is provided as is, without warranties.

10. Changes to these terms

    If we change these terms, we’ll ask you to accept the new version before your next sign-off. Until then, the version you accepted applies.

Reviewers are invited by the editors; there is no sign-up. How reviews work is set out in the editorial standards.