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Regulating and advancing engineering practice to protect the public interest
PEAKProfessional Quality Assurance
Beyond Licensure
Arden Heerah, MEng, P.Eng.
PEAK Program Coordinator
Regulating and advancing engineering practice to protect the public interest
PEAK Professional Quality Assurance
Beyond Licensure
Our Agenda
1. Background
2. What is the PEAK Program?
3. Why PEO implemented it?
4. The 3 elements of the program
5. How the program applies to you?
6. When and how to participate in the program?
Regulating and advancing engineering practice to protect the public interest
PEAK Professional Quality Assurance
Beyond Licensure
Background
The Issues
• Need to maintain up-to-date information about licence holders and the practice of professional engineering in Ontario
• Need to encourage adoption of best practices and maintain quality of professional engineering
• Lack of understanding of legal and ethical obligations by many licence holders
• Need to inform the public about the status of individual licence holders and the profession
The Fixes
• Ask licensees to annually update the registry
• Collect data through reporting of practice details by individual licensees
• Recommend a number of hours that licenseesshould commit to continuing knowledge activities
• Reacquaint licensees with their professional and ethical obligations
• Highlight licensees’ participation in the program on PEO’s online directory
Regulating and advancing engineering practice to protect the public interest
PEAK Professional Quality Assurance
Beyond Licensure
Background
Research and Development
• 5 Task Forces– CPDCQA (TF1) defined the guiding principles
– CPCP (TF2) defined the operating rules
• 2013 report by OSPE on CPD
• Ipsos Reid research– Focus groups
– Survey (8.8% responded; 80% supported CPD)
• 6 Town Hall meetings (all 5 Chapter Regions)
• A Review Network of volunteer licensees
Regulating and advancing engineering practice to protect the public interest
PEAK Professional Quality Assurance
Beyond Licensure
What is the PEAK Program?
Practice Evaluation and Knowledge • New regulatory instrument
Launched March 31st, 2017
• Implemented by PEO• Instructed by PEO Council
• On behalf of PEO licensees
Strategy for continuing technical development • Innovative & unique plan
An annual data collection tool • For PEO’s regulatory mandate
Regulating and advancing engineering practice to protect the public interest
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A Truly Unique Program
• Create a mechanism to implement the fixes
• Be unlike other existing competence assurance
reporting programs
• Create a progressive alternative through
leading best practices
• Not be a one-size-fits-all solution, by delivering
licensee-specific CPD recommendations
• Adopt a risk-based approach to address
the diversity of practice among licensees
• Encourage practising licensees to design
their own knowledge plan based on their
area of practice
• Focus only on technical activities
• Relieve non-practising licensees from
CPD recommendations
Regulating and advancing engineering practice to protect the public interest
PEAK Professional Quality Assurance
Beyond Licensure
Relevance of the PEAK Program
• Demonstrate commitment of Ontario’s engineers• to the public, the profession and self-governance
• Gauge the annual technical activities undertaken by engineers to
safeguard the public interest
• Help PEO to more effectively serve as Ontario’s engineering
regulator• building an up-to-date regulatory profile of the membership
• for evidence-based policy development
Regulating and advancing engineering practice to protect the public interest
PEAK Professional Quality Assurance
Beyond Licensure
The PEAK Program has 3 elements
i. Practice Evaluation (Declaration & Questionnaire)
ii. Ethics Module (refresher video)
iii. Continuing Knowledge Activity Reporting
Regulating and advancing engineering practice to protect the public interest
PEAK Professional Quality Assurance
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i. Practice Evaluation
Council agreed that CPD recommendations should:
• be established from a unique, individualized approach
• be offered to practising practitioners only (a maximum of 30 hours)
• be based on risk to the public attributable to licensee’s practice of
engineering
• be reduced for risk mitigators applied in licensee’s practice
Regulating and advancing engineering practice to protect the public interest
PEAK Professional Quality Assurance
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i. Practice Evaluation
Practice Declaration
• Self-declaration (practising & non-practicing)
Evaluation Questionnaire
• for practising licensees only
• instantly recommends CPD in number of hours
Regulating and advancing engineering practice to protect the public interest
PEAK Professional Quality Assurance
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• The Professional Engineers Act defines the “practice of professional
engineering” in Ontario as
– any act of planning, designing, composing, evaluating, advising,
reporting, directing or supervising that requires the application of
engineering principles and concerns the safeguarding of life, health, property,
economic interests, the public welfare or the environment, or the managing
of any such act.
Practising engineering?
i. Practice Evaluation
Regulating and advancing engineering practice to protect the public interest
PEAK Professional Quality Assurance
Beyond Licensure
• The Professional Engineers Act defines the “practice of professional
engineering” in Ontario as
– any act of planning, designing, composing, evaluating, advising, reporting,
directing or supervising that requires the application of engineering principles
and concerns the safeguarding of life, health, property, economic
interests, the public welfare or the environment, or the managing of any
such act.
Practising engineering?
i. Practice Evaluation
Regulating and advancing engineering practice to protect the public interest
PEAK Professional Quality Assurance
Beyond Licensure
• The Professional Engineers Act defines the “practice of professional
engineering” in Ontario as
– any act of planning, designing, composing, evaluating, advising, reporting,
directing or supervising that requires the application of engineering
principles and concerns the safeguarding of life, health, property, economic
interests, the public welfare or the environment, or the managing of any such
act.
Practising engineering?
i. Practice Evaluation
Regulating and advancing engineering practice to protect the public interest
PEAK Professional Quality Assurance
Beyond Licensure
Practising engineering?
This definition creates a 3-part test for determining whether an act is within the practice of professional engineering:
1. Is an action that involves: designing, evaluating, reporting, etc?
2. And, does it involve the public interest?
3. And, does it require the application of engineering principles?
PRACTISING ENGINEERING
in Ontario
METHODS
PURPOSEACTION
Regulating and advancing engineering practice to protect the public interest
PEAK Professional Quality Assurance
Beyond Licensure
Engineering Dimensions
March/April 2017 Issue
by Bernard Ennis, P.Eng.
PEO’s Director of Policy and
Professional Affairs
To help determine your practising status
a PEO article – some examples – a short guide
Regulating and advancing engineering practice to protect the public interest
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ii. Ethics Module
• Refresher about ethical duties and professional obligations
• 30-minute interactive video
• Not a test but has hurdle questions
– Answers to the interactive questions are not recorded
– Only completions are recorded
Regulating and advancing engineering practice to protect the public interest
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iii. Continuing Knowledge Activities
• Technical knowledge development (in number of hours)
• Record technical activities during the next 12 months
• Self-report the activities to PEO
Practising engineers already undertake activities
to be current and safeguard the public interest.
Tell PEO about those activities.
Regulating and advancing engineering practice to protect the public interest
PEAK Professional Quality Assurance
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iii. Continuing Knowledge Activities
Types of technical activities:
1. Formal Education• Courses & programs with certificates – instructed, evaluated, set curricula
• Teaching these course & programs
2. Informal Education• Self-study & non-evaluated – reading, conferences, seminars & webinars, lunch and
learns, tradeshows, mentoring & peer discussions
3. Contributions to Knowledge• Sharing knowledge & best practices to the profession – writing papers or books, giving
seminars, technical committee work
Regulating and advancing engineering practice to protect the public interest
PEAK Professional Quality Assurance
Beyond Licensure
1PRACTICE EVALUATION
Declaration & Questionnaire
2ETHICS MODULE
3KNOWLEDGE ACTIVITY REPORTING
Practising licensees
Non-practising licensees
1st year licensees 1,2
Temporary & Provisional licensees
Engineering Interns (EITs) 1
1 EITs and 1st year licence holders should become familiar with the PEAK program for when they become eligible.2 1st year licence holders (P.Eng. and Limited licence holders) were granted licences in the past year.
Which licensees should participate?
All licensees up for licencerenewal should participate.
- P.Eng.s & Limited licensees -
Regulating and advancing engineering practice to protect the public interest
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12 months60 days
DUE(1) Practice Declaration / Questionnaire(2) Ethics refresher
LicenceRenewal
Renewal Notice NEXTLicence
Renewal
NEXTRenewal Notice
DUE(3) Continuing knowledge activity reporting
When should licensees participate?
PEAK Due Dates
(1) Practice Declaration / Questionnaire & (2) Ethics refresher
(3) Continuing knowledge activity reporting
Regulating and advancing engineering practice to protect the public interest
PEAK Professional Quality Assurance
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• Exclusively online via your account in the PEO Member Portal
• Steps• Enter the Member Portal
• Go to the PEAK tab
– Select Practice Declaration / Questionnaire for the practice evaluation
– Select Ethics Module to review the on-line ethics refresher video
– Select My Activities to report continuing knowledge activities to PEO
Coming soon: Because PEO is updating to an accessible website, eventually the online PEAK program will be
more visually and auditorially accessible.
How to access the PEAK Program?
Regulating and advancing engineering practice to protect the public interest
PEAK Professional Quality Assurance
Beyond Licensure
Regulating and advancing engineering practice to protect the public interest
PEAK Professional Quality Assurance
Beyond Licensure
Regulating and advancing engineering practice to protect the public interest
PEAK Professional Quality Assurance
Beyond Licensure
Regulating and advancing engineering practice to protect the public interest
PEAK Professional Quality Assurance
Beyond Licensure
Regulating and advancing engineering practice to protect the public interest
PEAK Professional Quality Assurance
Beyond Licensure
Regulating and advancing engineering practice to protect the public interest
PEAK Professional Quality Assurance
Beyond Licensure
Regulating and advancing engineering practice to protect the public interest
PEAK Professional Quality Assurance
Beyond Licensure
www.peoPEAK.ca
Regulating and advancing engineering practice to protect the public interest
PEAK Professional Quality Assurance
Beyond Licensure
What PEAK highlights stand out?
1. Participation in PEAK is not compulsory to hold an engineering licence
in Ontario
✓But participation shows your commitment
✓And PEO gets vital up-to-date details on practices
2. PEAK has 3 elements (simple, convenient & flexible)
3. Ethics Module is a ½ hour interactive video (not a test)
4. Practising Status is your voluntary declaration that you could change
Regulating and advancing engineering practice to protect the public interest
PEAK Professional Quality Assurance
Beyond Licensure
Still confused?
Got more questions?
Offering suggestions?
Contact the PEAK team at
Website peoPEAK.ca
E-mail [email protected]
Telephone (416) 224-1100 x1123
