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Results
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Strategies & Key Initiatives
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Measurables
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3.1
100% of persons engaged in the practice of engineering, geology
or geophysics in Alberta are licensed and use proper titles.
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Identify and license all potential professional members and
permit holders
Strengthen
efforts to identify and license qualified persons through
use of consultants
Implement
the R.P.T. program for geoscientist technologists
Direct
contact with major employers and other regulatory bodies
Exchange
information with other jurisdictions on individuals registered
in other Associations now living and presumed practicing in
Alberta
Focused
efforts on Advanced Technology, Emerging Disciplines and Urban
Municipalities
Clarify
the role of "responsible members" to ensure that
all persons practicing the professions in the firm are licensed
through permit to practice seminars
Increase
university student enrolment in the ASAP program and encourage
new graduates to register
Communicate
information concerning discipline decisions to all stakeholders
Continue
ring workshops
Communicate
the value and requirement of licensure to individuals and
companies
Provide
member services that are valued
Expand
the M.I.T. program and finalize APEGGA's support for the mentoring
program
Utilize
new "ethics video" for use in presentations to university
students and update 4th year lecture series. Promote to sister
associations.
Emphasize
that licensure facilitates mobility between employers and
between jurisdictions, and provides a measure of job security
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- Comments
received concerning the enforcement programs
- Percentage
of eligible persons in Alberta who are licensed
- Percentage
of graduates who register and stay registered until they
become P.Eng.;
- Percentage
of companies holding valid Permits to Practice
- Percentage
of graduates registered in M.I.T. program
- Percentage
of members who participate in voluntary member services
programs
- Participation
in ring workshops and ceremonies
- Companies
demand professional licensure
- Registration
of R.P.T.s
- Percentage
of permit holders that attend the permit to practice seminars
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3.2
All businesses using the protected titles or practicing the
professions are fully qualified, possess a permit to practice
and have a responsible professional member
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Enforce the restricted practice and title provisions of the
EGGP Act
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Continue to monitor directories, Alberta Gazette, career
pages, advertisements, business cards
- Follow
up on information received from members and others
- Review
Corporate Member Database
- Deal
efficiently with complaints of firms not holding a permit
to practice offering professional services
- Use
professional members as consultants to visit businesses
suspected of practicing without a permit
- Recognize
full compliance and high practice standards
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- Number
of violations of the Act reported and percentage accurate
- Number
of actions taken against illegal use of protected titles;
- Number
of favorable judgements received
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The EGGP Act is current and meets anticipated future needs
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Continually
review the EGGP Act to ensure that changing circumstances
and emerging disciplines are clearly understood and accommodated
- Initiate
amendments to the EGGP Act and regulations that become necessary
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- References
to the Courts are based on clearly defined sections of the
Act that protect the public as well as the protected titles
and exclusive scope of practice
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