compliance
APEGGA’s professional designations must continue to earn the respect and trust of the public as the Association grows and becomes more diverse. The Compliance Department plays a big part in protecting those designations from misuse. In fact, an APEGGA Council goal is to achieve 100 percent compliance with the licensing requirements of the EGGP Act. For that goal to be achieved, all individuals engaged in the practice of engineering, geology or geophysics in Alberta are required to be licensed and use proper titles. As well, all businesses using the protected titles or practicing the professions must possess a Permit to Practice. The Compliance Department, with the support of the Enforcement Review Committee, has the responsibility to achieve Council’s goal.
Compliance activities are both proactive and reactive. Efforts are focused on investigating member and public complaints, as well as identifying actual and suspected violations by examining a number of data and information sources, such as the Alberta Gazette, newspapers, career pages, articles, Yellow Pages, business directories and out-of-province member lists.
A company that uses “engineering” in its name must be licensed
to perform engineering. A person who uses the word “geologist” or
the title “P.Geol.” on a business card must be licensed. An advertisement
in the Super Pages directory under the “Geophysicist” heading must
be for an appropriately licensed person or company. Members of the public expect
professional, ethical work when they see those words. APEGGA’s Compliance
Department is on the lookout for violators, so this high level of public trust
is maintained.
(taken from APEGGA’s 2003 Annual Report)
table of contents
WORKING
WITH YOU TO ENSURE COMPLIANCE
This brochure
gives an overview of how APEGGA strives to ensure public safety and answers some
frequently-asked questions.
PEGG
ARTICLES
A complete listing of articles found in
the monthly issue of the PEGG. This listing provides basic guidelines and examples
to frequently asked citation questions. Included are compliance activity reports.
F.A.Q.'S
These frequently asked questions are listed
in a database where you can search either by keyword or by category type. They
can also be found in past issues of the PEGG.
APPLICATION
FOR REGISTRATION FORMS
Individuals eligible to register with APEGGA
as a Engineer, Geologist, Geophysicist or Member-in-Training (MIT) can do so
as either an Engineer-in-Training (EIT) or as a Geoscientist-in-Training (GIT)
THE
EGGP ACT
The Compliance department uses specific
areas of The EGGP namely Part 1, which can be found by clicking on the picture
to the right..