Summary

Welcome to this video explaining CIOB’s Continuing Professional Development Policy and how you can meet your obligations as a member.

What CPD do you need to do?

Members commit to continuous learning in order to keep up to date and ensure they're working in alignment with current best practice

Members here includes all CIOB members at all grades, student, applicant, TechCIOB, MCIOB, and FCIOB.

The only exemption being those members on the retired grades, RetMCIOB and RetFCIOB.

Members are required to record their CPD, and you may find it more convenient to do so through the CIOB portal.

You should complete 25 hours of CPD activities in each membership year, covering each of the four core professional review themes.

You will also need to provide a reflective account of what you did, how it was useful, and how that impacts on what you will do in future.

What are the themes?

You need to talk to your annual 25 hours of CPD around the four core professional review themes, health, safety and wellbeing, sustainability, quality, and professionalism.

These are the competence standards members are assessed in, and so it makes sense to maintain competence through your career and CIOB journey in a similar way

Make sure you complete and record at least three hours of learning on each theme, giving you 12 hours overall in the core themes. That's a minimum, so you can do more if that suits your learning programme.

The remaining 13 hours of the 25 hour minimum can be directed as you choose.

It's a good idea to pick according to your personal learning and development plan

Formal or informal.

There are different ways of doing CPD and making sure you are learning and keeping up to date.

Activities and opportunities can be formal or informal, and CIOB recommends you do a mixture of both if appropriate.

Out of your 25 hours annual CPD, it is recommended, you complete about 15 hours of formal learning and 10 hours of informal activities.

Formal learning would be classes, courses, formal things where somebody leads the learning, has a plan for what you are supposed to know and possibly assesses your learning at the end.

Informal activities would be something where you're self-directed. Perhaps you are reading articles, maybe you are watching videos on the internet or using new equipment or products and learning how they work.

Your circumstances may not allow you to divide your learning in exactly this way, and you may end up doing more or less formal learning. 

This recommendation allows flexibility according to your personal needs.

Here are some scenarios to give you an idea of how you could fit CPD into your role as a professional.

Jaleel is a student studying on a CIOB accredited construction degree. His course covers modules on quality, health and safety, sustainability, and working as a professional, the four themes, so Jaleel can demonstrate learning in all four of those core PR things.

Jaleel can also access more learning for free through the CIOB Academy that may be more directly related to the work he's doing at that precise time.

Sean works as a construction manager and he's a member of CIOB.

His employer requires he complete mandatory training courses in onsite safety, snagging and quality control, waste management rules, and developing a team.

He could count those as formal learning towards his CPD for the year, and together you can see that they would cover each of the four core themes.

He can then do further learning to get up to the minimum three hours in each theme, and then he can choose other learning that may match his professional development goals.

Mei is working for a construction contractor and has won a scholarship to investigate the impact of dust on construction workers and the general public. 

Her CBD will be almost completely self-directed research, informal learning, rather than sitting in classes, and that would make up her 25 hours as long as she completes at least three under each of the four core themes 

Marcin is the managing director of a construction consultancy.

He's not a member of CIOB yet, but he would like to become a Fellow.

Marcin attends a fellowship workshop and successfully applies, becoming FCIOB.

He's completed all of his personal development CPD activities and has also covered the mandatory themes by delivering training and development for his staff in health and safety, quality,  sustainability, and professionalism.

So he's had to learn those and prepare learning and teaching in those, in order to deliver to his staff.

Christine is a fellow of the CIOB and works in a university built environment department delivering master's degree modules.

She attends many CIOB events or webinars in order to keep up with industry best practice, and deliver that to her students.

Some of Christine's health, safety and wellbeing learning is around safeguarding and student wellbeing rather than construction health and safety.

Christine focuses much of her delivery on quality and sustainability, which requires her to attend industry events and carry out research. She meets her CIB requirements in all four core themes. 

She also has a clear personal development plan around her role and her goals for the future.

Christine can access more learning for free through the COB Academy.