Innovation March-April 2023

INNOVAT ION MARCH/APR I L 2023 | volume 27 number 2 ENGINEERS AND GEOSCIENTISTS BRITISH COLUMBIA Suite 200 - 4010 Regent Street, Burnaby, BC Canada V5C 6N2 Tel: 604.430.8035 Fax: 604.430.8085 Email: info@egbc.ca Web: egbc.ca Toll free: 1.888.430.8035 COUNCIL 2022/2023 President Mark Adams, P.Eng. Vice President Michelle Mahovlich, P.Eng., P.Geo. Immediate Past President Carol Park, P.Eng. COUNCILLORS Suky Cheema, CPA, CA; Leslie Hildebrandt, ICD.D, LLB; Emily Lewis, CPA, CMA; Karen Ling, P.Eng.; Mahsoo Naderi-Dasoar, P.Eng.; Mark Porter, P.Eng., Struct.Eng.; Jessica Steeves, P.Eng.; Jens Weber, P.Eng.; David Wells, JD ENGINEERS AND GEOSCIENTISTS BC EXECUTIVE TEAM Heidi Yang, P.Eng., FEC, FGC (Hon.), Chief Executive Officer Jennifer Cho, CPA, CGA, Chief Financial and Administrative Officer Liza Aboud, MBA, ABC, ICD.D, Chief Operating Officer David Pavan, R.PH., Chief Regulatory Officer and Registrar

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WE’RE LISTENING When Engineers and Geoscientists BC’s Continuing Education (CE) requirements came into effect last year, we heard a lot of feedback from registrants. You told us that some of the reporting requirements were challenging to understand, our communication could be improved, and a simpler way was needed to report your CE activities to us. We shared in-depth information about your feedback in

our January/February issue. As a regulatory body, we want to make sure that the level of regulation we apply to any given issue is proportionate to its level of risk and meets transparency expectations of the public. This is a principle called “right-touch regulation,” and we strive to apply this approach to all our regulatory programs. Based on your feedback, we’ve been considering how we can improve the CE program and continue to bring it closer to the principles of right-touch regulation. In this issue, you’ll read about several changes we’re making, including no longer requiring practising registrants to upload their CE Plan to our system, exempting non-practising registrants from program requirements, and making overall improvements to the reporting system so that it’s simpler and easier to use. Your feedback is important. It helps us understand what challenges you’re encountering—both in interacting with us and in your day-to-day practice—and what actions we can take to address them. It also helps us understand how we are performing as a regulator. That’s why we recently asked for your input through a comprehensive Registrant Insights Survey. If you participated, thank you. The information you shared will help us understand how you are adapting to some of the recent changes we’ve experienced—most notably, the introduction of the Professional Governance Act and changes to our organization’s mandate. Your engagement with Engineers and Geoscientists BC is important to me and to the Board. We believe that an engaged registrant is a safe registrant—someone who is equipped with the knowledge and resources to meet professional standards and to practice engineering or geoscience safely and effectively. As we continue to work together to adapt to the changes of the past several years, I encourage you to continue providing your feedback to us. It will help us maintain our course towards right-touch regulation and, in doing so, work towards our vision of modern regulation for a resilient world.

Shelley Nicholl, Managing Editor

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