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IGEM NEWS | Professional development

Stay on track outlined below. Please be assured

that the IGEM will provide support
and guidance to help members, who
will now be required to submit their
CPD records upon request.
Get ahead of the curve and record your CPD Recording CPD activities is very
today, ahead of changes to Engineering Council straightforward. You simply need to
requirements. IGEM Professional Development keep a record of what the activity was
and what benefits you gained from the
Officer Ross McCart has the details activity. The key thing in recording a
CPD activity is to reflect on what you
learned. As the professional institution
for the gas industry, it is IGEM’s
responsibility to support our members
with their CPD activities, including
recording them. One of the ways we
do this is to ask our members to
submit their CPD record for review.
This helps us not only provide
feedback to individual members but
also gives us a bigger picture of CPD
activities in general. This helps IGEM
to ensure the service that we provide
our members is current and relevant.
Each summer IGEM will randomly
select two per cent of our
Engineering Technician, Incorporated
Engineer and Chartered Engineer
members and contact them to request
their CPD records. The records will be
reviewed by our Professional
Development Committee who will
then provide feedback.
Because this sampling exercise is so
important to reinforcing the benefits of
CPD, from 2019 it will become
CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL IGEM, along with the other mandatory to submit a CPD record
DEVELOPMENT (CPD) is one of the professional engineering institutions upon request. These requirements will
elements that sets members of IGEM (PEIs), has agreed with the initially only apply to professionally
apart from everyone else working in Engineering Council that the registered members. This will be
the industry. By recording CPD submission of CPD records for followed by sanctions in 2020 that will
activities, IGEM members can professionally registered members apply to anyone that persistently fails
demonstrate their skills and (Engineering Technicians, Incorporated to comply with the request to submit
knowledge are up to date and that Engineers and Chartered Engineers) their CPD records. The sanctions will
they are committed to maintaining will become a firm requirement. The result in member’s removal from the
their competency. CPD is one of the approach that IGEM is taking to register and the loss of their
most important tools members have confirm that professionally registered professional registration status.
to demonstrate their professionalism. members are undertaking CPD is If you are unable to submit a CPD
record, or are struggling with CPD, for
any reason, it is important that you
contact us to let us know. It may be
An example of a CPD record that you are exempt from submitting
CPD records or you may be entitled
to a waiver. Whatever the reason, as
ACTIVITY NAME Technical training START DATE 01/01/2015 END DATE 31/12/2015
soon as you contact us it is our
responsibility to provide you with the
DESCRIPTION Technical/innovation: predominantly focused on technology development to
support mains replacement and gas repair activity. This has involved benchmarking, attend- necessary support. ■
ing demonstrations and field trials. From a business efficiency perspective, further develop-
ment of my LEAN capability, deploying PDM approach to converting strategy to appropriate ■ For more information about CPD,
step change plans for gas distribution. Further customer journey work to establish more
focused plans to improve customer experiences. including previous Gi articles and
further examples of CPD records,
visit www.igem.org.uk or contact
BENEFITS GAINED Importance of applying end-to-end process thinking to new technology.
Impacts on systems, people and processes (from design to full data capture). Structured IGEM Professional Development
approach to ensuring change programmes compliment strategy has led to opportunities to stop Officer Ross McCart at ross@igem.
non-value added work and refocus organisation on the changes that really matter.
org.uk or call +44(0)1509 678166

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