The Environmental Operators Certification Program was initially known as the British Columbia Water and Wastewater Operators Voluntary Certification Program. It began in the late 60’s as an ad-hoc group of well intentioned individuals who recognized the importance of what the Operators do and the benefits for everyone to develop a mechanism to identify the tasks they do in the many different circumstances in which they work.
By the late 70’s the ad-hoc Board realized that a more formal approach would be necessary and development of a constitution was started. In 1981 the first constitution was approved by the membership and remained in effect until a revised constitution was approved in 1991. It was in place until 2009 but had become seriously dated and in need of updating.
With the assistance of the Ministry of Health we retained the lawyer who assisted the Ministry with the Drinking Water Protection Regulation and the Drinking Water Officers Guide to review our 1991 constitution and make recommendations.
We now have a revised constitution which came into effect in mid-2009 following a vote by the membership to approve the changes. There will be on-going changes to the Policies and Procedures as a result of the new constitution and these too will be posted on the website as they are completed.
Please click on the link to the New Constitution and you will see that the changes resulted in a new look but with most of the provisions remaining as they were. Most of the changes are to more clearly define the activities of the Board and the Executive Director as they relate to actions with respect to the Continuing Education Requirement (which was included as far back as 1981). There are also corrections of such things as the definitions of CEU’s that originally included experience, OCP that included training, neither of which were correct but nobody noticed, and differing descriptions of the Directors’ terms of office.
If anyone has any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the EOCP office:
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Phone: (604) 874-4784 · Toll Free: 1-866-552-3627 · Fax: (604) 874-4794
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