INNOVATION September-October 2022

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These guidelines, and other professional practice guidelines and practice-related resources, are provided at egbc.ca/Guidelines .

NEWLY PUBLISHED PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE GUIDELINES AND ADVISORIES egbc.ca/Guidelines

P ROFESSIONAL P RACTICE G UIDELINES – P EER R EVIEW These guidelines establish roles and responsibilities regarding peer reviews and clarify obligations of engineering/geoscience professionals who conduct peer reviews, or are subject to peer review, within any discipline or area of practice. Peer reviews are an important part of professional practice; however, there is confusion about the requirements and standard outcomes of peer reviews. These guidelines clarify the differences between peer reviews, practice reviews, and audits, independent reviews, checking, expert opinions, and other types of reviews.

P RACTICE A DVISORY – D ETERMINING D AM H YDROLOGIC L OADING This practice advisory has been issued for registrants who provide services related to hydrologic loading from flood events on dam reservoirs and impoundments. This advisory focuses specifically on the roles and responsibilities of professional registrants who undertake hydrologic loading estimation work. This advisory discusses: evaluating sources of uncertainty when estimating flood magnitude (including future climate change effects), types of flood hazard studies, sources of information and data for completing a dam hydrologic loading estimate, flood magnitude estimation methods, addressing flood estimate confidence and uncertainty. P RACTICE A DVISORY – P ROFESSIONAL R OLES AND R ESPONSIBILITIES FOR THE L IFE C YCLE OF F OREST R OADS This practice advisory, jointly published by the Association of BC Forest Professionals and Engineers and Geoscientists BC, provides professional practice guidance regarding the roles and responsibilities of project participants involved in the planning and layout, design, construction, maintenance, and deactivation of forest roads. This practice advisory categorizes and distinguishes the roles and responsibilities of professional practitioners (registrants), forest road operators, regulatory bodies, and government ministries at the various life-cycle phases of forest roads.

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