| CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT (CPD) |
The Continuing Professional Development (CPD) program was introduced in January 1992 to enable members to stay ahead with developments in our profession so as to enable us to provide the best possible service to our clients and employers, and to maintain our existence as the leading authority in the field.
CPD is defined as the systematic maintenance, improvement and broadening of knowledge and skill, and the development of personal qualities necessary for the execution of professional and technical duties throughout the practitioner's working life.
CPD attainment is to be a mandatory requirement for every Fellow, Member, Probationer and Technical Member to comply. Members must clock in at least a total of 60 hours in a 3-year period i.e. 20 hours per year.
Members are responsible for maintaining a record of their participation in the CPD activities in the CPD Booklet and send a copy to the Institute when so requested.
Members who have completely retired from practice and Honorary Fellows are exempted from this requirement.
| Type | CPD Activity | CPD Allowance | Max Hours per year |
| A | Attendance or delivery of papers in a talk, CPD lecture, seminar, conference workshop, forum, inhouse training session etc. Site visits, if relevant, are included. This activity is not restricted to theory and practice of our profession, but also includes other relevant career development topics eg. computing, management and business skills. | Full | - |
| B | Discussion, meetings, etc on technical topics. These should have some formalised structure eg. a paper, video or tape, a competent person in charge of the proceedings, the subject matter be announced in advance, and minutes of meetins to be kept etc. | Full | - |
| C | Full-time or part-time formal courses organised by colleges, polytechnics, universities, professional bodies, recognised course-providers and training institutes. | Full | - |
| A course of study leading to an additional higher qualification eg. MBAs, PhDs, relevant to work and career development is recognised as a CPD event. | 2/3 | 40 hrs | |
| D | Distance-learning or correpondence courses, supervised study packages, being a programme of reading or recorded lectures. | Full | - |
| E | Private studies of a structured nature. Structured reading prompted by a problem and towards solving the problem can be counted eg. reading from a wide variety of sources having pre-determined the reasons and to gather information in a systematic way. Reading of pre-course materials, and background papers to a conference/seminar etc can be counted. | 2/3 | 40 hrs |
| F | Research work carried out in response to a work related problem for a client or leading to understanding of a new and relevant subject, etc may be included. | Full | - |
| G | Authorship of published works. These works normally should consist of technical or academic articles published in a professional journal or other published form. | Full | - |