Every professional body sends out these "threats" I've had one from the IET also, they've got a web
page that explains what actually count's as CPD.
HR departments don't keep track of an individuals CPD it's considered an individual choice what CPD you do. The only legal requirement they have is to record your stat/mandatory training. Your line manager should have some input on equipment training as workforce planning.
Reading IEC-62353 or BS-7671 or online research would count, but unless you hadn't done soldering in a long while I doubt soldering practice would. Nursing has reflection and a few companies use black box thinking.
Continuous does mean continuous as if you look at the IET examples your probably doing it anyway and just didn't realise! No embellished CVs aren't a thing of the past if anything it's common. Although it's one thing to claim you've managed x number of employees and other to have a CMI certificate or health and safety training. Yes, you can self-certify if you claim to have knowledge of something this will be tested at an interview.
Although on the question of
I'd stick with the VRCT for now as employers do state it being desirable with some essential. Although it looks like the Government is asking a similar question as there was a
consultation process on professional registers including PSA.
One of the issues is that each professional register acts differently, what might be a red card for a nurse on the NMC will probably be a warning for a doctor on the GMC. Then there's the fact that there are loads of registers so which register do you join? There are some people on the Academy for Healthcare science. To a member of the public, they just won't get all this so there was a proposal of one public facing register.
Then there's the fact that not everybody joins voluntary registers and if there is a fitness to practice question, it's highly unlikely that they will not be on the register. Therefore for some groups, it has been suggested that prohibition orders might be an alternative. The consultation certainly seems worth keeping an eye on as the VRCT might become obsolete.
