Well I haven't but what is the exam for?

Cheers Bob.

I remember they were originally Planning Supervisors, then CDC coordinators but do they still have a role? Both did have duties under CDM.

There are CDM Consultants now, are they the same people and do they have any integral part to play?

No CMIOSH should be operating unsupervised in an area for which they lack understanding and technical knowledge - FULL STOP. If you have such evidence and are an IOSH member you must make them aware at The Grange. Some years ago I tried to float the idea that members of IOSH operating in construction should clearly register this fact and included construction matters in their CPD - it was stonewalled because use of the APS register was thought to be the route to go. There being members with some split loyalties in my personal view. I still believe that CPD should be improved to require members to show CPD in any specialist areas they operate.

APS have been trying to Piggy back onto already chartered institutions for some years in order to try and gain professional credibility BUT at the end of the day only IOSH has achieved chartered status for its members. According to the Privy Council it is THE Chartered Professional Body for Safety Practitioners, including those operating in construction.

Just completed my conversion exam,happy to say I got a pass. Lots of general health and Safety questions (about ten) and lots of flicking through the L153 for answers. Still not convinced the APS have a role to play,I am giving it until October and will make a decision to renew or move on!

Anyone that wants to retain a particular set of post-nominals after October this year.

If I read the above posts right I could take the exam and end up with RMaPS2015.

I may give it a try.

Wouldn't make me competent in some areas though.

Ahar Bob that's where they get you. Money to pay for joining the register and using the letters.

I wonder what would happen if no one did join?

I did not renew my APS membership after reading the December edition of APS Digest as I felt that the organisation were not giving me an honest and objective account of the CDM changes.

In terms of APS Chartered Membership, that is only going to happen if the Chartered Safety and Health Practitioner is shared amount other professional organisation, or there is unique professional reason for this.

Hi

I am CMIOSH, MCIOB and CEnv and manage a Construction Health and Safety Consultancy was asked this year by APS to give evidence of my CPD. I passed evidence of this from IOSH and the CIOB and was advised this was satisfactory. I have been informed that I still need to sit the APS exam before October 2015.

although I have been a member of APS for many years, I have never used the designated letters and have never been asked for evidence of this by my clients. with this in mind, I may well not join again as I see no benefit.

In my view, an online 'open book' exam does not prove any competence in construction health and safety, it is just a time consuming exercise. if I had two hours spare, I would rather play golf!

I have been RMAPS since 2008 - and to be honest have seen little benefit from holding the accreditation, Now that the CDM 15 Regulations are in place I see no reason whatsoever to sit an APS exam to obtain a new designation. As far as I can see, there are no parts in the regulations that request a CDM Adviser.

Plus if you fail the exam or do not take it, your designation drops from RMAPS (now IMAPS) to AaPS - despite once holding RMAPS status - the APS state the following - AaPS - Associates who have not passed the exam are not deemed to be credited to undertake CDM15 duties. That is their opinion but I have not had a memory dump since the regs changed despite what the APS say and consider myself more than capable to advise on construction.

When the regs required a CDM-C I could see the benefit in the APS membership, now I see no benefit to me and my work or knowledge has not decreased because of an exam.

ps in the 7 years of membership with the APS, I was never requested to complete CPD to maintain my membership - unlike I to maintain my CMIOSH status with IOSH - plus I am aware of people working in groups to pass the exam.

My thoughts are that the APS will have lost members when the regs changed and I am now £140+ better off.

I got the obligatory email from them "if you don't take the exam we'll downgrade you to affiliate" (or something)

My response was to tell them to stick their membership where the sun don't shine!!

What use are they anyway??


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