Examples of maintaining your practice and experience
In addition to the 30 hours of knowledge and skills OPD, you are required to maintain your practice and experience for a minimum of 200 hours per year.
This really only concerns people who are no longer in everyday supervision or management but who wish to maintain their CP status so they must keep their practice up-to-date.
One way of demonstrating current practice and experience in areas of competence (knowledge and skills and experience) is through the maintenance of an up to date curriculum vitae (CV), work history or statement of employment and/or a logbook. When the CP Board is reviewing a member’s compliance with the requirements for continuing practice, they may only need to review the member’s CV or logbook, depending on how a member keeps their records.
A CV would need to illustrate maintenance of practice and experience, including skill enhancement. Alternatively, a logbook might be kept or used to supplement a CV.
For people engaged full-time, there might only be two lines in a log book; the first line being the fact that they were employed during the whole year, while the second line is needed to demonstrate that one or more skills were enhanced. For example:
| 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) |
| Jul 08– Jun 09 | Smith’s Quarry | Manager of operations | +200 |
| 08 / 09 | Ditto | Practiced documenting weekly toolbox talks of half-hour duration each x 48 weeks | 24 |
| Comments: the following year a different skill should be enhanced, and this could be as a result of legislation change, a new organizational requirement, a new standard, or a refinement of existing approaches. | |||
Apart from highlighting skill enhancements, the main target for this section are those people who are not engaged full-time on a quarry, or in management / supervision etc of a quarry. For example, someone who was previously engaged at a quarry site in a supervisory / management capacity might have moved to a concrete plant or to a head office role as part of a career progression. Alternatively, the person may have moved to a consulting role or to a supplier or regulator. That person might want to retain their supervision / management certification so they need to record the times they spend on quarry sites, and the jobs they do to keep them up-to-date with their practical skills. This is the actual application of knowledge and skills, not the acquisition of that knowledge and skills.
To illustrate this example, see an example of a record of maintaining practice and experience