Join Forest Professionals British Columbia (FPBC) for a new webinar examining non-compliance with regulations and professional standards in bridge and road construction and maintenance by forest professionals and engineers.
Professional Due Diligence in Bridge and Road Construction and Maintenance—Forest Practice Board Audit Findings addresses the overlap between the Forest and Range Practices Act and Forest Planning and Practices Regulation (FPPR) and other statutes and misunderstood, unknown, and ignored professional standards.
Professional disagreements over ‘structural defects’ in bridges, audit trends in road construction and maintenance, and the interplay between professional documentation, due diligence and safety will also be discussed.
Learning outcomes:
- understand that documentation and demonstrating due diligence is an obligation of both the tenure holder and forest professionals/professional engineers when building bridges and roads;
- understand that non-compliances with road and bridge construction and maintenance is potentially non-compliances with other statutes in BC;
- understand how the Forest Practices Board (FPB) interprets the regulations and why non-compliances with multiple sections of the FPPR can be cited if one or more aspects of the crossing guideline are omitted or not considered in a construction project; and
- understand tenure holder obligations with roads under permit whether they are being used for industrial purposes or not.
Date: Thursday, December 4
Time: 1–2:30 p.m.
Cost: free
Presenter: Tom Bruderer, RPF, PGeo, auditor, Forest Practices Board (FPB)
Bruderer has been auditing for the Forest Practices Board since 2016 and is the primary specialist for matters involving roads, bridges, and terrain stability. From 2002 to 2015, he worked in the private sector as a forest engineer on the mainland coast and Vancouver Island. Before joining the Forest Practices Board, he provided terrain specialist services for proposed road construction and harvesting throughout the West and South Coast regions.
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