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APEGGA's Practice Review Board has begun taking
the next step in enforcing compliance with the Continuing
Professional Development Program. The mandatory program was
incorporated into provincial legislation in 1998 through the
Engineering, Geological and Geophysical Professions Act and
its General Regulation.
Under the program, APEGGA members are required to undertake
a certain minimum number of hours of professional development
activities each year and to report those hours annually. The
regulations contain a provision that allows an individual
to be exempt from the program requirements if the individual
files a declaration that he or she is not actively engaged
in the practice of engineering, geology or geophysics.
For the most part, the vast majority of members have been
complying with the program. To deal with individuals who fail
to report, however, the legislation now provides consequences.
The regulations state, that "a professional member or
licensee must maintain a written record of activities undertaken
in accordance with the Continuing Professional Development
Program and produce the record on the request of the Practice
Review Board."
In the spring of this year, the regulations were amended to
include a provision that will result in a member being struck
from the register if he or she fails to produce the record
of CPD activities within 30 days of being notified to do so.
That means loss of the right to practice engineering, geology
or geophysics and no longer being entitled to use the professional
designations.
Following the regulation change, the board has begun issuing
notices to those individuals who have not submitted their
annual reports, requesting their records of activities. The
record consists of a detailed log providing a description
of the activity, the date it occurred, the organizer/provider
(if applicable), the CPD category in which the activity belongs,
and the number of professional development hours earned and
claimed.
More Info
For more information on CPD and to report
your activities and hours, visit
www.apegga.org/members/prof_development.html
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