Waste Management Member Benefits and Affinity Programs As an APEGS Member You Are Eligible to Participate in the Member Benefit and Affinity Programs
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THEPROFESSIONAL EDGEI S S U E 1 7 5 • JULY/AUGUST 2018 2018 Salary Survey Waste Management Member Benefits and Affinity Programs As an APEGS member you are eligible to participate in the member benefit and affinity programs. Corporate Discounts Engineers Canada Affinity APEGS partners with selected suppliers to offer discounts Programs to members on various products and services. All APEGS members and their families can take advantage of the insurance plans, financial and other APEGS Travel Insurance Program services through Engineers Canada’s sponsored initiatives. APEGS Services This program is available to members, employees of members, and staff of the association. Numerous services are available and many costs are included in the APEGS membership It has been specifically designed to deliver the most fee. comprehensive and cost-effective travel health and accident insurance available. • Subscription to The Professional Edge • Professional Development APEGS Travel Discount Program • University Access • Volunteer Opportunities APEGS is pleased to offer an • Local Constituent Societies exclusive worldwide travel discount service to our • Engineers Canada Affinity Programs members. Visit apegs.ca/Portal/Pages/member-benefits today Savings average 10-20 per cent below- and start saving market on all hotels and car rental suppliers around the world. Save time and money. Let Local Hospitality Inc. negotiate the best deals and comparison price for you. Any hotel, any car, anywhere, any time, other discount programs, home insurance, rentals and health & fitness. 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Shaylene Whillans - File Clerk Fan Yang - Administrative Assistant * Applicable GST/HST will be added to advertising rates. 3 Table of Contents I S S U E 1 7 5 JULY-AUGUST 2018 05 President’s Message 16 Member Profile 19 Bylaw Change 2018 Salary Survey Adventures in Recycling 7 Competency-Based 22 BY MARTIN CHARLTON COMMUNICATIONS Assessment is Coming 24 Council Notes 25 30 By 30 27 Call For Award Nominations 29 News Beyond Our Borders 31 News From The Field 36 Calendar Of Events Mine Ambassador 10 BY MARTIN CHARLTON COMMUNICATIONS Down in the Dumps 13 BY MARTIN CHARLTON COMMUNICATIONS 4 President’s Message e had a number of events this June focused on reviewing how well we are aligned to the Objects of the Association: The New Councillor Orientation. June Council Meeting and WCouncil Planning Session were conducted in Yorkton as part of the APEGS Annual Planning Cycle. During the Continuing Professional Development and Competency Based Assessment town halls earlier this year, we found that our members appreciate local contact. As a result, we are working on various ways to interact with our members in their local communities. Part of that local contact included holding the previously mentioned events outside of Saskatoon and Regina and inviting the local members to attend. This year was the first time we held a New Councillor Orientation Stormy Holmes, P.Eng., FEC session. This idea was garnered from one of our sister associations during a visit to their Annual Meeting. The orientation was a chance to help inform our new councillors on current and future issues to be discussed at council meetings, the APEGS organizational structure and In recent years a few the board and committee structure. Our new councillors also received professions across the country guidance regarding their role as a councillor as well as many other have had their privilege of self- items. The sessions provided them with an opportunity to network with each other and senior APEGS staff. This event will help our councillors regulation removed. Looking understand how their work fits within the APEGS acts and bylaws. into why this privilege has APEGS Strategic Planning is laid out in the APEGS Value Proposition been removed we see that (AVP), which embodies the strategic and operational direction for our some organizations have association. Anchoring the AVP are the Objects of the Association, deviated from their core found in Section 5 of The Engineering and Geoscience Professions Act: requirements as defined by (a) to ensure the proficiency and competency of members in the practice of professional engineering or the practice of their Acts and Bylaws. APEGS professional geoscience in order to safeguard the public; firmly believes that we are (b) to regulate the practice of professional engineering best positioned to regulate and the practice of professional geoscience by members in the practices of professional accordance with this act and the bylaws; engineering and professional (c) to promote and improve the proficiency and competency of geoscience for the protection members; of the public. As such, we (d) to foster the practice of professional engineering and the practice of professional geoscience by members in a manner need to be sure that what we that is in the public interest. do is within the bounds of our During the Council Planning Session, which was attended by many of Act and Bylaws. the committee chairs, several factors discussed revealed the need for a review of the APEGS Council, Board and Committee organizational structure. Reviewing the committee’s Terms of Reference has indicated possible misalignments with the Objects. Over the past year, the APEGS Communication Manager has provided a view of how our structure is working and the tools to develop and implement a communications plan. Finally, a review of the council electoral groups indicates that some disciplines represented are no longer current. I look forward to seeing the outcomes of the review process and sharing the results with our membership. 5 Honouring Mentors Do you