CPD Flashcards
- What does CPD stand for?
Continuing professional development
- What are the CPD requirements for chartered surveyors?
o To undertake continuing professional develop to keep their knowledge up to date
o Undertake 20 hours of CPD per year (10 of which much be formal) which must be recorded on the RICS website or on the app.
o Must keep up to date with professional and ethical standards on a rolling 3 year period.
o Must be recorded by the 31st January each year online.
- How is CPD recorded once a surveyor is chartered?
Online or on the app
- How do you define between formal and informal?
Formal
- Any activity that has a structured learning that has clear objectives and outcomes
- Professional training course
- Structured online training
- Learning that includes an assessment measure
- Can be self-managed as long as it goes towards the members development needs.
Informal
- Self-managed learning that is relevant or related to your professional role
- Private study
- On the job training
- Attendance at informal seminars where the main purpose is knowledge sharing
- What sort of professional development have you done during your training period?
I undertook a self-managed sustainability module organised by the college of estate management. This consisted of 5 different modules covering topics such as carbon in the built environment i.e. embedded carbon. Passive design of buildings i.e. location and the material first approach. Energy systems in buildings such a ground source heat pumps and district heating. Carbon sequestration i.e. carbon captured in wood products that is released when they are disposed. Lastly about standard assessment methods and the future homes standards whereby 2025 all homes much use 75-80% less energy than they currently do.
- How will you go about selecting CPD subjects over the next 12 months?
- Start by reviewing my last 12 months an identify areas that I have not recently studied.
- Consider current and future hot topics (insolvency, inflation)
- Consider future projects and how my CPD might improve my performance.
- How do you keep up to date with topical issues?
o Regularly review RICS website and journals
o Register with CPD providers (Fenwick Elliot)
o Discussion with colleagues in community of practices
o Read construction related news.
- What tools are available to decide if CPD is formal or informal?
RICS CPD decision tree
Name some Acts and Regulations
- Health and Safety at Work Act 1974
- Housing Grants Construction and Regeneration Act 1996
- Managmenet of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999
- Contract rights of 3rd parties Act 1999
- Working at Height Regulations 2005
- Local Democracy Economic Development Construction Act 2009
- Water Resources Management Act 2010
- COntrol of Asbestos Regulations 2012
- Reporting of Injuries Diesases and Dangerous Occurances Regulations 2013
- Control of Substances Hazardous to Health 2013
- CDM 2015
- Data Protection Act 2018
- General Data Protection Regulations 2018
- Personal Protective Equipment
