Become a Contaminated Site Approved Professional
When you become a member of CSAP, you become a Contaminated Site Approved Professional (CSAP, or AP for short) and are added to the roster of professionals approved by the Ministry of Environment and Parks (ENV) to review contaminated sites and assist in their cleanup.
Membership benefits include listing in ENV’s roster, professional development opportunities, and the ability to contribute professionally to developing best practices, as well as ENV policy and new regulations.
Membership Guidelines – What does CSAP membership mean for you?
The guidelines provide you with the eligibility criteria and application requirements. It also outlines your responsibility to the organization in terms of conduct and professional development.
For prospective full members, the decision regarding an applicant’s eligibility is based on the information contained in the applicant’s work experience details. Applicants are therefore encouraged to include as much information as possible in their work experience details. It is the applicant’s responsibility to ensure that sufficient information is provided prior to the application deadline to avoid a delay in the processing of an application, possibly beyond the cut-off dates for an examination and/or oral assessment.
Examination Information
CSAP generally conducts each exam once a year. The exam application deadline and the due date to pay the Experience Review fees (if you are a new candidate) is April 26, 2024.
We encourage you to bring hard copies of all the reference material you will need as we will not provide any electronic materials.
The due date to pay the exam fees (Technical and Regulatory) is August 16, 2024.
Please do not send any cheques or pay online any exam fees unless you have received a confirmation letter.
Experience Review – Your experience counts
The experience review panel is interested in finding out how long you have been working in the environmental field, what kinds of projects you have worked on, and other relevant areas of experience.
Technical Oral Assessments
The dates we have secured for the oral assessments are:
- September 10, 2024 for Numerical
- September 11, 2024 for Risk-based
The Technical Oral Assessment will consist of case studies and/or scenarios with follow-up questions that will assess the candidate’s technical knowledge and experience. This is not an interview.
The oral assessment will be conducted by a two-person panel with experience in the category being evaluated (Numerical or Risk-based). Each question will be evaluated as correct or incorrect according to a scoring rubric. The complete exam will be qualified as pass or fail. Dates and times will be informed individually to each applicant.
Regulatory Examination
The date we have set aside for the regulatory examination is November 14, 2024.
The examination is offered in a computer-based format and it is held in a computer testing lab, but you will not have access to the Internet or any electronics besides the one allotted for you.
To become a member of CSAP Society, applicants must achieve a pass in the regulatory examination and successfully fulfill the requirements of a Technical Oral Assessment based on the Approved Professional designation for which they are eligible (Numerical Standards or Risk-based Standards).
Please forward your application and inquires to [email protected]
Examination guides and fees can be found here.
