Webinar | Professional Practice Compliance in Small Engineering Firms
Professional engineering practice is increasingly shaped by regulatory expectations, documentation requirements, and professional accountability. While these obligations are well understood in principle, many firms struggle to apply them consistently in day-to-day project delivery.
This session explores the practical realities of professional practice compliance, including risk assessment, scope definition, checking and review, internal collaboration, document control, and use of seal. The presentation focuses first on the professional obligations engineers carry across jurisdictions, then demonstrates how structured workflows and documentation systems can help support those obligations without replacing professional judgement.
Learning objectives:
- Understand how core professional practice obligations (risk, scope, review, documentation) translate into day-to-day engineering operations.
- Identify common process gaps that lead to compliance issues, even when technical work is sound.
- Learn practical approaches to improving consistency, traceability, and risk management across project life cycles.
- Explore how structured workflows and systems can support compliance without replacing professional judgement.
This session will be held through ON24.
For any questions about this event, please contact [email protected].
About the presenter
Bruce Johnston, P.Eng., CP, MIStructE, is a structural engineer, principal partner at Access Engineering, and founder of DesignTIME Solutions, the company behind Stackd, a purpose-built operations platform designed specifically for Canadian engineering firms that integrates project delivery, quality management, regulatory compliance, and financial workflows into one connected system. Based in British Columbia, Bruce has served as managing partner of Access Engineering, with direct responsibility for professional oversight, quality management systems, and permit-to-practice compliance.
This event applies to the following Work Readiness Program skill areas:
