Before you become capable of applying for your APEGS professional licence, you need to have four years of geoscience work experience or engineering work experience that must be assessed by the Experience Review Committee.
APEGS Registration Eligibility Criteria:
For registration, you need to be registered as an engineering-in-training or geoscientist-in-training, or a member-in-training applicant who has been given the task of work experience reporting option to try and get confirmatory exams waived.
What is CBA, and how it can help you?
APEGS utilizes an online competency-based assessment (CBA) system to evaluate your work experience. Besides providing validated examples to show each of the competencies, you need to have at least four years of experience validated in this system.
You can find necessary information about the competency-based assessment process for an applicant, validator, and assessor in the Competency Assessment Guide. We strongly recommend that you carefully read this guide before your begin your assessment.
How to report in the CBA system:
Follow the following steps for APEGS work experience reporting in the CBA system:
Go to https://competencyassessment.ca.
Choose the âApplicantsâ section.
Adhere to the instruction on the screen.
Create an account with your APEGS Registration/Application number as your User ID.
Pick âAssociation of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Saskatchewanâ as your jurisdiction.
You will get a mail notification when your account is approved. It may take up to 5 business days. These accounts are approved manually M-F 8:00 to 5:00.
Reach the system by choosing âI am a registered user and would like to access the Competency Assessment Systemâ.
Start entering your information adhering to the instructions on the screen. At this time, your educational information doesnât show in the CBA system.
If you have any issues with the system, contact us.
After the proper assessment of your work experience, you will get the result by mail. If you donât pass the first time, you will get the opportunity to redo any competencies that didnât fulfill the requirements.
Usually, one can receive their assessment result within 6 to 8 weeks after all validations are complete. If your validators are not accepted, APEGS will inform you and the validation process will have to be redone.
The Environment Committee of APEGS has made a set of general guidelines for its members for the sustainability and protection of the environment.
These guidelines are to offer guidance, increase awareness and promote proactive environmental stewardship within APEGS membership.It is a must for an engineer to take issues related to health, safety and the environment seriously.
They must protect the well-being of the coming generations by working for the welfare of ecosystems.
The main purpose of doing so is to improve the quality of human life.Therefore, members of APEGS are expected to positively contribute to the economy, society and the environment.
It doesnât matter how big a project you have taken; you must not go against these environmental guidelines.APEGS Guidelines for the welfare of the environment:You must cooperate with others:Offer your 100% cooperation to other experts to recognize the impacts of the policies, designs and processes and work hard to develop solutions to lessen or eliminate such impacts.Promote compliance with sound practices related to the environment.Ask clients and employers to pay attention to the environmental change due to operations and processes and tailor systems as per the result found.Make sure that there is proper comprehensiveness and documentation to environment-related problem-solving.Communicate effectively with the government, public and clients to allow informed decision making.
Set up procedures, as needed, to ease such cooperative communication.Ensure that professional rules for health, safety and environmental rules are followed.Acknowledge your role for the welfare of the environment: Know your role in fulfilling sustainability goals and use your role for the welfare of the public and environment.Work hard to protect the environment and human health via advocating, making and using environmental protection and sustainability principles in workplaces.Promote proactive plans and understanding of those actions needed to sustain, improve and restore the environment.Share speciality and have interactions with other disciplines like engineers, chemists, biologists and the like for the improvement of environmental understanding and practices.Encouraging environmental enhancement is also your duty.Try to look for solutions that are compatible with health and environmental protection.
