The Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Program requires APEGS members to complete ongoing professional development activities as a way 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. From more information, navigate to the CPD Tab on the APEGS Homepage at apegs.ca
Upcoming Professional Development Events
The next free APEGS online ethics module is launching in April 2020. Make sure you earn your ethics credit by December 31, 2020.
Ethics Module #2
Get to the Point! A Practical Writing Course for Technical Professionals
Saskatoon, SK, April 29 – 30, 2020
2020 Fall Professional Development Days
Regina, SK, November 24 – 25, 2020
Registration opens in September.
For more details and pricing, visit apegs.ca
Looking for Ethics Training?
Of the many ways to get ethics training, here are two options that APEGS provides:
APEGS Online Ethics Modules
- Obtain your annual ethics credit today by completing one of our free modules.
- The topic for Module 1 is Professionalism and Ethics
- The topic for Module 2 is Conflict of Interest. This module will be available in April 2020.
- For more information and to access the module, please visit apegs.ca
In-person Ethics Presentations
If your organization is interested in hosting an ethics training session for your employees or members,contact Jolene Arthur at cpd@apegs.ca to book.
Safety Training
Did you attend any of the following this year:
- First Aid Training
- Fall Protection Training
- WHMIS Training
- H2S Alive
These courses all count as Formal Activity for the CPD Program.
Snapshot of the 2019 Continuing Professional Development Program Compliance
2019 marked the first year for APEGS members to participate in the required Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Program.
Compliance with this program included obtaining a minimum number of CPD credits in a minimum number of categories depending on whether a member was licensed, on a license waiver or had an approved CPD variation.
The CPD Compliance Review preliminary results for the 2019 reporting year indicated that:
Approximately 80 per cent of the APEGS members required to participate in the CPD Program reported their 2019 CPD activities to APEGS prior to the January 31, 2020 deadline; and
Of those that reported, approximately 80 per cent were fully compliant with the requirements of the CPD Program.
Common reasons members reported they were not fully compliant included:
REASON
1. Checked the box that you reported elsewhere, even though your preferred address is Saskatchewan.
REMEDY
1. If your preferred address is Saskatchewan, you cannot check the box that you reported elsewhere; you are required to report to APEGS.
Alternatively, you can change your preferred address to one in a different jurisdiction if you live or work there and then check the box that you reported elsewhere, assuming you are a member there.
REASON
2. Did not complete the annual verifiable ethics training, or at least did not check the box that you did so.
REMEDY
2. APEGS offers a variety of ways for members to obtain the required annual verifiable ethics refresher training, including an online module that is free to all members and is accessible through the APEGS home page www.apegs.ca. The CPD program document and the CPD webpage also provide a number of suggestions for ways that members can achieve this requirement.
Note that members are required to obtain at least one cumulative hour of verifiable ethics training annually and must report this in their CPD online reporting by:
• Checking the ethics box; and
• Claiming the time under Formal Activity
REASON
3. Did not report CPD credits in enough activity categories.
REMEDY
3. Licensed members must obtain credits in at least three of the six categories.
• Waiver holders must obtain credits in at least two of five categories.
• Those with an approved CPD variation will have specific requirements.
REASON
4. Did not report enough total credits.
REMEDY
4. Licensed members must obtain at least 80 credits in at least three of the six categories.
• Waiver holders must obtain at least 30 credits in at least two of five categories.
• Those with an approved CPD variation will have specific requirements.
Members are also reminded that excess credits over the required annual amount can be banked for use in future years, for up to two years. Excess credits achieved over the values noted above should NOT be reported in the reporting year, but tracked for use in future years. If you reported more than the required amounts, please update your 2019 reporting and track your banked excess in a separate tracking tool, such as the spreadsheet provided on the APEGS CPD web page.
More detailed CPD compliance statistics will be published in a future issue of The Professional Edge when the 2019 compliance review cycle is completed.
For more information about the requirements of the CPD program, see the CPD program document by selecting Continuing Professional Development (CPD) under the CPD menu and click on the link.