The FIA believes it is important to encourage successful candidates for Award Levels II-V to continue to learn and update their knowledge and skills. In order to maintain the entitlements achieved through successfully completing these High Level awards, a minimum of eight (8) hours CPD must be registered with the FIA each year.

Eight hours of CPD will mean eight learning hours. These learning/training hours can be achieved in a single day, but the FIA considers that a standard training day or conference day is typically only five or six true learning hours, and hence a day and a half or two days of training would be more normal to obtain eight true learning hours.

Events submitted for CPD approval will be judged by the FIA QSD. The exception to this is training events organised and delivered solely by FIA Approved Training Providers with significant fibre optics, cabling, or closely related content, in which case the CPD entitlement does not require further FIA approval.

Content that is closely related to fibre optics or cabling, for the purposes of CPD, could include optics, general physics, mathematics and engineering subjects. It will not normally include non-technology courses, such as management courses, unless they are specifically orientated towards the fibre optics industry (e.g. “managing network growth”).

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