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, visit the CPD menu at apegs.ca.
Featured Professional Development Opportunities
2021 Fall Professional Development Days
A variety of courses will be offered in the Fall of 2021. Stay tuned for more details.
Upcoming online events will include:
• Writing Proposals and RFPs Course. Four online courses to begin November 15, 2021.
For additional professional development opportunities, please refer to the back cover of this magazine or visit apegs.ca.
Coming Soon: Indigenous Awareness Training
This fall, APEGS is introducing 4 Seasons of Reconciliation in partnership with the First Nations University of Canada. This online course provides an education in line with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s 94 Calls to Action. The intent is to promote a renewed relationship between Indigenous Peoples and Canadian settlers through transformative multi-media learning. More information is forthcoming.
Online Ethics Modules Available to All Members
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.
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 visit the CPD menu at apegs.ca.
CPD Variation applications for 2021 CPD requirements reductions are due Sept. 30, 2021
If there are extenuating circumstances that make it difficult for you to obtain your CPD requirements for the year, you can apply to have your requirements reduced via the CPD Variation Program.
Members wishing to apply for a variation must complete a CPD Variation application and submit it to cpd@apegs.ca on or before Sept. 30, 2021. Applications received after this date will not be accepted.
For more information about the Variation Program, please read Section 5 in the CPD Program Document. CPD Variation application forms can be downloaded from the CPD page at apegs.ca.
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.
2020 CPD Reporting Compliance Review Results
On July 7, 2021, APEGS suspended 86 members for failure to meet all of their 2020 CPD requirements. This brings the total number of members who were administratively suspended in 2021 for 2020 CPD non-compliance to 515 members.
As of Aug. 10, 2021, 64 of those members have had their licence reinstated.
As a reminder, an APEGS member who is administratively suspended is not licensed to take professional engineering or professional geoscience responsibility for any projects located in Saskatchewan.
To determine if a member is under an administrative suspension, please refer to the APEGS online register at apegs.ca.