APEGA
Members today expect a more transparent, thorough, and consistent updating and review process. The information age allows us to meet these expectations like never before, so that’s what we’re doing. We developed much of this approach through our legislative review process. As you may know, we recently concluded this multi-year, deep dive into the EGP Act and General Regulation . The 80 legislative changes we proposed are now before the Government of Alberta (GOA). Some 6,000 stakeholders took part in our various calls for comment and participation, by meeting with APEGA staff and volunteers face-to- face, by taking part in surveys, video conferences, and webinars, and by exchanging emails with us. Volumes of supporting material, their contents heavily influenced by members and other stakeholders, are now in the hands of the GOA. The member engagement we generated continues, and the ways we accomplished that engagement inform, where appropriate, our next steps. Another example is the development work in creating the new Practice Standard for Authenticating Professional Work Products , which will replace the existing Practice Standard for Authenticating Professional Documents . What’s particularly interesting, in the context of this column, is that this standard reflects new technology in three ways: the way authentication operates in the digital space, the way our licensed Practice standards and guidelines are where the proverbial rubber hits the road. APEGA needs to get them right, so APEGA needs to make sure subject-matter experts, members, and permit holders are properly engaged, consulted, and informed.
sources that battle for their attention. As a result, regulators need to demonstrate their relevance and value by removing doubts and proactively tackling antagonistic attitudes. We are keenly aware that we have much to do, as we begin updating a big cross-section of professional standards and guidelines. For major updates, it is not enough for a few committee members, staff, and experts to collectively create a document, then share a draft for member comment before we present it to Council for consideration and finalization. We need to work together to develop standards and guidelines that best position our professional members to serve—and make paramount—the public interest.
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