Regulatory Excellence
Individual Practice Licensure administration
Continuing professional development With new technologies rapidly emerging, methods changing, and knowledge advancing, our mandatory Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Program is an essential component of professional regulation. To protect public safety, registrants must remain competent throughout their careers by continually maintaining and building upon their skills and expertise. •The new CPD reporting system in the myAPEGA compliance than we saw with the previous system. •In 2023, 1,290 special consideration requests were approved. Registrants who are unable to meet minimum CPD requirements because of extenuating circumstances—such as unemployment, parental leave, or health issues— can request a reduction in CPD requirements. portal contributed to higher reporting
Former or existing licensed professionals who want to resume practice, reinstate their registration, or reactivate their registration must apply for permission before practising again. This protects public safety by ensuring these individuals still meet APEGA’s ethical and technical requirements. In 2023, we updated the standard criteria against which these applicants are assessed and the conditions that may be applied when they are approved to return to their practice. Applicants approved to return to practice in 2023 •To ensure safe and competent practice, 61 per cent of resume practice and reinstatement applications were approved with practice restrictions, or conditions, and in some cases more than one. •Practice restrictions and conditions included 363 for CPD, 195 for ethics or National Professional Practice Exam, and 64 for technical supervision, with some requiring multiple conditions. There was an increase in elevated risk applications, which require a more rigorous review. •We approved 106 reactivations, which are not subject to conditions or restrictions. •During the review process, we identified and made 51 referrals for potential violations of the Engineering and Geoscience Professions Act and 33 referrals for corporate practice reviews.
Total applications 961
Reinstatements : former registrants approved for reinstated registration Resume practice : non-practising registrants approved to resume practice
Reactivations : former registrants with a short registration lapse approved for reactivated registration
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