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Continuing Professional Development

November 1st, 2021

The Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Program requires APEGS members to complete ongoing professional development activities to maintain and improve their competence. It encourages members to engage in lifelong learning to protect public health, safety and welfare. The program provides tools for members to assess their current skills, knowledge, and abilities, determine activities to maintain or enhance them and report completed activities online to APEGS as professional development credits. For more information, navigate to the CPD menu.

CPD Reporting

CPD Reporting Deadline

Members are reminded that they have until Dec. 31, 2021 to earn continuing professional development (CPD) credits for the 2021 reporting year.

While members can updated their APEGS online CPD report at any time, the deadline to have all 2021 CPD information entered online is Jan. 31, 2022.

 

2020 CPD Reporting Compliance Review Results

In 2021, APEGS administratively suspended a total of 515 members for failure to meet their 2020 CPD requirements. As of Oct. 15, 2021, 83 of those members have had their licence reinstated.

Also in 2021, three members were sent to the APEGS Investigation Committee for stating that they “Reported Elsewhere,” but upon a compliance check it was discovered that these members did not report their CPD to those jurisdictions as claimed.

As a reminder, a member who is administratively suspended is still an APEGS member but is not licensed to take responsibility for engineering or geoscience work on projects or properties located in Saskatchewan.

To determine if a member is under an administrative suspension, please refer to the APEGS online register.

 

Online Ethics Module

APEGS has free one-hour online ethics modules available to assist members in obtaining their ethics credit for the year. The modules are not mandatory and are offered as one option available to members.

Our current ethics module topics are:

  • Module 1 – Professionalism and Ethics
  • Module 2 – Conflict of Interest
  • Module 3 – Investigation and Discipline

For more information and to access the modules, please click here.

 

4 Seasons of Reconciliation Indigenous Awareness Training

4 Seasons of Reconciliation promotes a renewed relationship between Indigenous Peoples and Canadians, through transformative multi-media learning. The course is designed to help fulfil Call to Action 92 of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and provides insight into the history of residential schools, treaties around the country, and reconciliation and restitution initiatives. Featured are award-winning reconciliation documentaries, slideshows, quizzes and an additional video library that is available after you have completed the course.

How to access the course:

  1. Sign-up using this form.
  2. The 4 Seasons team will add you within two business days and an invoice* for $38 plus tax will be sent to your email from Reconciliation Education (noreply@notify.thinkfic.com).

*The first 230 members to sign up will have their invoice cancelled.

Click here to view a short trailer about the course.

 

2022 Spring Professional Development Days

A variety of online courses will be offered in the spring of 2022. Refer to the Events page and future issues of The Professional Edge.

 

Attention Licence Waiver Holders

Members who hold a licence waiver for the entire year in 2021 are reminded of the CPD Program change for 2021. Members who hold a licence waiver for the entire year require a minimum of 30 credits annually obtained outside of professional practice including one hour of verifiable ethics training, which shall be claimed under Formal Activity as part of the 30 credits.

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