Information Bulletin
01-06
In order
to keep e-mail correspondence to a minimum, an information bulletin will be
e-mailed to each member.
If you do
not wish to be included on this circular, please notify the ACPA office at acpaoffice@pchem.ca.
ACPA
Office
P.O.
Box 21017
Edmonton,
AB T6R 2V4
Phone:
780-413-0004
Fax:
780-413-0076
In this
Bulletin:
Alberta
Environment Competencies Table and Feedback
Form
Membership
Contact Listing
Job Postings
Laboratory
Safety Workshop
Professional Liability Insurance
Petroleum
Technology Alliance Canada Website
All contributions are welcome from the members for
consideration in the monthly bulletin.
Please have submissions into the ACPA Office prior to the 15th of each
month.
Alberta Environment Competencies Table and Feedback Form
The ACPA Board of Directors has been very active in assuring Chemist's gain the right to sign-off or manage environmental work in Alberta at a level equal in recognition to an APEGGA or AIA member.
Over the past several
months ACPA Board representatives have participated in an Alberta Environment
run committee focused on the remediation and reclamation business sector.
The objective of the committee was to identify all tasks a professional and/or
technologist might perform in the course of providing environmental
services. A set of competencies a practitioner should have in performing
these tasks is also described. The attached Draft Table provides further
context in this regard.
The Competencies Table is to be referred to by
the Alberta Government when "Environmental Specialist" is defined and "Sign-Off"
criteria is established. The Competencies Table is intended to be the
building block for Alberta Environment for detailing what a professional must
have in order to "Sign-Off" environmental work or reports. It is
anticipated the right to sign-off may be given through legislation.
To
that end the Committee's Draft Competencies Table is attached along with a
comment form. We encourage you to review the Table with respect to your
education, training and work experience and provide relevant comments or
recommendations.
Please return the Response Form to John Banks at email
address: jbanks@matrix-solutions.com
no later than January 27, 2006. In your email response please include the
following information:
- Position or Job Title
- Relevant
work experience
- Years related experience
- Province Work
Completed
For example
- Senior Environmental Chemist
-
Laboratory Services; Environmental Consultant; Legal Sampling
- Lab (13
years); consultant (9 years)
- Primarily
Alberta
Membership Contact
Listing
A membership contact list is now available as a benefit to ACPA members in good standing. The list is for networking purposes only. It is not a marketing list, so please use in a professional and ethical manner, e.g. no spamming and not for further distribution. The contact listing will be sent to members separate from this newsletter. Updated lists will be provided periodically.
Job
Postings
Job seekers, check out the pchem.ca website regularly to see the latest up-to-date job postings. Employers, if your organization has an opening that may be of interest to chemists, you may send your job posting to the ACPA Webmaster.
Laboratory Safety
Workshop
Escalade Training is
the Canadian representative of the Laboratory Safety Institute (LSI). LSI
is one of the organizations listed in the Chemical Safety section of the ACPA
website.
We are bringing LSI’s 2-day
Laboratory Safety Workshop to Calgary on March 1-2, 2006. Details and
registration information are included in the attached PDF. An “early bird”
registration discount is available for registrations received by January
26.
Professional Liability Insurance
The ACPA's application for Group Professional Liability Insurance (aka Errors and Omissions Insurance) policy was rejected because our estimate that 10 members would participate was too low.
There was a suggestion that we could have a combined policy with the Alberta Society of Professional Biologists. Some chemists may do things that are similar to what biologists do but for others there is very little overlap so it was decided by the insurance provider (ENCON) that this approach would not give the cover that our members require.
The broker and ENCON are at least aware that ACPA exists and encourage individual members to discuss their insurance needs with them. ACPA membership should make it easier to obtain insurance cover and in one year's time ENCON will review how many members have policies with them. However, ENCON have indicated that they would require 20 to 30 members to participate in order to set up a group plan.
To
achieve this level of participation they would be willing to consider a joint
plan with ACPA and ACPO (the Association of the Chemical Profession
of Ontario) and I will contact ACPO to see if they are interested in
participating.
Members who need insurance should contact the broker and indicate
that they are an ACPA Member. You can contact them directly
at:
Morris &
MacKenzie Inc.,
Jordan Fellner, CIP,
CAIB Account Executive,
2985 Virtual Way,
Suite 250
Vancouver, BC
V5M 4X7.
Phone 604-331-5473
Direct, 604-669-5848
Switchboard, Fax 604-669-6776
Email: jfellner@morrismackenzie.ca
Should you take out a policy through Morris and MacKenzie it would be helpful if you could let ACPA know (acpaoffice@pchem.ca) so that we have an idea of how many members are participating.
Link to the current INNOVATIONS ALBERTA Website
http://www.innovationalberta.com/
Link to the Petroleum Technology Alliance Canada
Website
http://www.ptac.org/techenvf.html
The
content of this bulletin is provided only as an information service to members.
Inclusion of any information does not represent official positions, opinions or
support of the Association of the Chemical Profession of Alberta (ACPA), members
of the executive, board of directors or staff. The information is collected from a
variety of sources, including members, and circulated to the membership as
information only. ACPA does not guarantee all submissions will be circulated and
is not responsible for the accuracy of any information
provided.