Example of a Record of On-going Professional Development (OPD)
After certification, you need to keep your practice and experience and knowledge and skills up-to-date. The following is intended to guide you in both of these areas. You should consider this to be illustrative, not limiting; you can maintain records in your own format providing it meets the intent of the following.
- Record of your continuing work practice and experience
The Certified Practice (CP) Board recommends that you maintain a current curriculum vitae (CV) (or resume, statement of employment or work history). You need to attach a copy of your CV/work history to your application for certification. For people in fulltime supervision or management, that may be all they need to do. Of course, it is important to show that they have kept themselves up-to-date. - Practice and Experience Skill Maintenance
For those not in fulltime supervision or management, technical developments require you to keep your practical application up-to-date after you’ve gained your CP status. This section involves time spent on-the-job in various capacities and is not the same as off-the-job knowledge and skills acquisition. Maintenance of practice might involve time spent in activities designed to update, further develop or enhance your experience, practice and professional skill for activities such as actually performing:
- formal risk reviews and other special projects related to increasing or updating your competencies;
- on-the-job project evaluation of new technology, skills, others’ experiences or ideas of non-standard practice;
- original work including planning, evaluation and research, on existing operations and on new projects;
- work on quarrying, mining or minerals extraction or processing sites (including equipment manufacturer sites) for the purposes of enhancing the professional’s skills. This might include actual work involving drilling/blasting, haulage, treatment, services, slope stability, product development, etc; and
- the application of relevant new legislation, standards, codes and reporting requirements
It could also involve providing advice and support to operational personnel.
| Year / dates | Site | Job description or task | Hours claimed (at least 200 hours / year on average required for routine work experience combined with practical skill enhancement) |
- Required knowledge and skills enhancement activities
Maintain a record of OPD undertaken off-the-job that you undertook to keep your knowledge and skills up-to-date, covering the most recent three (3) years. This generally involves attendance at courses, seminars, training, IQA dinner meetings, etc. You must complete at least 30 weighted hours of knowledge and skills OPD per year, calculated over a rolling period of three years. Weighting the actual hours spent allows for the extra effort involved. For example attendance at a course that involves formal assessment is weighted three times that of simply attending and listening.
You should review your OPD annually.
A minimum of ten (10) of these 30 annual professional development ‘weighted’ hours should be in Institute-based activities.
This OPD should be across a variety of activities involving technical and personal development as indicated in the tables below.
| 1. Formal Education (involving a formal assessment): | Time weighting factor: × 3 (for each actual hour spent, multiply it by 3 to get a weighted time spent) |
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| Dates | Description of activities | Organiser / Institution | Weighted Hours |
| 2. External/Internal Short Courses (involving a formal assessment): | Time weighting factor: × 3 | ||
| Dates | Description of activities | Organiser / Institution | Weighted Hours |
| 3. Technical Conferences, IQA Technical Meetings, or courses not involving formal assessment: (a) Attendance (not presenting, see below): |
Time weighting factor: × 1 (record each actual hour spent, without any weighting) |
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| Dates | Description of activities | Organiser / Institution | Weighted Hours |
| 4. Technical Conferences, IQA Technical Meetings, or courses not involving formal assessment: (b) Preparation and Presentation: |
Time weighting factor: × 10 (multiply each actual hour of presentation by 10 to get weighted hours) |
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| Dates | Description of activities | Organiser / Institution | Weighted Hours |
| 5. Publications: Material written and published in technical journals and conference papers will be credited. |
20 equivalent hours for each technical/ conference paper (eg an article of substance in Quarry Magazine), and 30 hours for papers subject to peer review for learned journals | ||
| Dates | Description of activities | Organiser / Institution | Weighted Hours |
| 6. Private Reading of Learned Publications: State the number of hours spent studying learned articles publications (seminar & conference notes, periodicals such as Quarry Magazine technical/practical/ knowledge-enhancing articles, and textbooks), excluding trade press and newspapers. |
Time weighting factor: × 0.5 The maximum claim allowable for this classification is 7.5 weighted hours per year. Multiply the hours you actually spent on reading the publications by half to get the weighted hours |
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| Dates | Description of activities | Organiser / Institution | Weighted Hours |
OPD Weighted Hours ........................
Period covered .................................
Average hours per year over the period covered ..............
I declare that the above entries in my Ongoing Professional Development Logbook are a true and correct record of my competency enhancement or development for the period, and that my conduct accords with The Institute’s Code of Conduct.
Signed ................................................................ Dated ..........................................