THE DISCIPLINE FILE
Case No. 18-007-RDO continued
10. The Member provided the Polish Hygienic Certificate and the Polish National Declaration of Compliance regarding the acceptability of the fiberglass tanks for potable water storage that were made in Poland. 11. The storage tanks are made of a material that will come into contact with potable water, as it is the potable water storage tank, and therefore should have conformed to ANSI/NSF 61. 12. The Member fully cooperated with the investigation and indicated he will be contacting the AEP Regional Director regarding the process required to certify the tank material. D. CONDUCT 13. The Member freely and voluntarily admits that: a. The tanks, as supplied, were not certified as per ANSI/NSF61 as set out above in paragraph 8 and thereby demonstrated a lack of judgment in carrying out a duty or obligation undertaken in the practice of engineering. b. Since the potable water storage tanks were 14. The Member acknowledges that the conduct is a breach of Section 44(1)(e) of the Act and therefore constitutes unprofessional conduct as defined in the Act: 44(1) Any conduct of a professional member, licensee, permit holder, certificate holder or member-in-training that in the opinion of the Discipline Committee or the Appeal Board: . . .(e) displays a lack of knowledge of or lack of skill or judgment in the carrying out of any duty or obligation undertaken in the practice of the profession, whether or not that conduct is disgraceful or dishonourable, constitutes either unskilled practice of the profession or unprofessional conduct, whichever the Discipline Committee or the Appeal Board finds. not certified as per ANSI/NSF 61, their use resulted in a potential public health risk, and the Panel found sufficient evidence to support a finding of unprofessional conduct under Section 44(1)(e) of the Engineering and Geoscience Professions Act (the Act).
Design of Water Works Facilities 2006 & 2012 1.7 Potable Water Treatment Chemical standards 1.7.2 Direct and Indirect Additives The American National Standards Institute and National Sanitation Foundation Standards (ANSI/ NSF) 60 and 61 shall be used to control potential adverse human health effects from products in contact with or added to water directly for treatment or indirectly during treatment, storage All substances, materials or compounds (e.g. pipes, coatings, filter media, solders, valves, gaskets, lubricants, resins, process equipment, etc.) that may come in contact with water in the waterworks being treated to be potable and water that is potable shall conform to ANSI/NSF Standard 61 for health effects and the product certified for potable use by an agency accredited by the Standards Council of Canada, e.g. NSF, CSA, UL, etc. The following exceptions apply: • Any materials listed in the current NSF Standard 61 “Annex C”. • Existing waterworks (unless otherwise notified by the Regional Director). • Portland cement based concrete. However, the Portland cement, any admixtures used in the concrete and concrete coatings shall be certified. • If NSF certification does not exist for any substance, material or compound, the Regional Director, at his discretion, may approve formal food grade certification by a recognized agency (Health Canada, FDA, etc.). 9. The Member interpreted this requirement that such control can be ensured by using other recognized certification and assumed that the Polish/EU certification is acceptable as an equivalent to NSF, CSA, or UL. or transmission as follows: 1. 7.2.1 Indirect Additives
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