Does a confined space entry course give you continuing ed credits towards your PE?
Does a confined space entry course give you continuing ed credits towards your PE?
(OP)
I understand it might vary by state, but what's the general answer?
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RE: Does a confined space entry course give you continuing ed credits towards your PE?
I am not a lawyer, but for the above quoted state could you prove that it directly benefits the health, safety, or welfare of the public?
RE: Does a confined space entry course give you continuing ed credits towards your PE?
My $.02...
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RE: Does a confined space entry course give you continuing ed credits towards your PE?
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RE: Does a confined space entry course give you continuing ed credits towards your PE?
So my advice is for close calls, use them. If you're audited, you have a pretty good chance they'll let you skate. IMHO, the auditors are looking for blatant liars, who are claiming riding the bus or going to the toilet as earning PDH's. Confined space training has potential. I've never used it, but I've been tempted. I have no problem using Brown Bags put on by equipment suppliers.
RE: Does a confined space entry course give you continuing ed credits towards your PE?
RE: Does a confined space entry course give you continuing ed credits towards your PE?
*You should know the rules of each state you have a license. In every state i have a license in, there is a FAQ on the website discussing this in detail. i keep an adobe print of the pages just in case the rules change. For example this is the link to North Carolina http://www.ncbels.org/cpcfaq.html In NC, as long as the engineer determines they have learned something.... it counts. Understanding Confined Space Entry is absolutely applicable not just to your entry but to understand the means/methods constraints of contractors. Constructability is no less important than load calculations, material science, etc....
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RE: Does a confined space entry course give you continuing ed credits towards your PE?
IMO (for whatever that is worth) a whole lot of folks and perhaps even the "public" can benefit from confined space training, and various sorts of Engineering "guards" e.g. in engineering designs helpful in protecting everyone around what is going on are also a rapidly developing field.
Of course, IMO as well Engineers and their bosses/firms who employ them are part of the "public", and they also can "benefit" personally and as a business from good knowledge of the subject (lack of good knowledge can be deadly, even for Engineers e.g. see http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/engineer-taking-ph...). Yes!
RE: Does a confined space entry course give you continuing ed credits towards your PE?
RE: Does a confined space entry course give you continuing ed credits towards your PE?
for instance, in one state where I am registered, this is the reasoning. I have to agree that if we all are making up classes for vendor brown bags and reporting on the honor system, than I really see no point in the regulation.
RE: Does a confined space entry course give you continuing ed credits towards your PE?
Many states are not only approving e.g. ethics training for pdh's, but even requiring same specifically/regularly. Is this wrong because same deals more with right and wrong than "technical"??
Aspects of confined space training are technical, and I guess one could just as easily argue more technical than ethics, and engineers have lost their lives in confined space incidents. We or boards should encourage the opposite of that, as it is taught in Engineering ethics that safety is paramount (and that implies to me pretty high importance!!)
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RE: Does a confined space entry course give you continuing ed credits towards your PE?
RE: Does a confined space entry course give you continuing ed credits towards your PE?
Thanks for the clarification. However, I was already understanding that this could be a possible reason for the OP's question. Even so, I still ask my same question. I also have to take such training courses in my line of work (industrial structural/civil consulting engineering). I have never tried to get double-credit for these types of courses because I usually have enough CEU credits for applicable professionally-related subjects to carry over credits year after year. I still think that these types of courses are not what most state legislatures really intended when they set up CEU statutes state by state. Regardless, I don't think it appropriate to do so. Just my personal opinion as to their professional utility. Maybe we just don't see this from the same standpoint, but thanks again,
Dave
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