Course Description
This course is designed to provide a portion of the required Continuing Professional Development hours needed to recertify at both 3-year and 6-year intervals for certified API 653 inspectors and to assist those who are planning on writing the API 653 6-year recertification quiz.
IMPORTANT NOTE: This course is NOT designed for those who are writing the initial API 653 Aboveground Storage Tank Inspector examination to become certified as an API 653 Inspector. If you are writing the API 653 examination to achieve initial certification as an API 653 Aboveground Storage Tank Inspector, we offer three options to assist with that, please go back to the Courses page and review our Webinar, Combination and Self-study options for the initial API 653 certification exam preparation.
Course Components
This course has the following components, or sections:
- Online training materials consisting of explanatory lessons, navigation guidance, over 550 Practice Questions, and 3 quizzes. These materials cover all 7 required documents. Candidates are required to provide their own copies of the API documents to study from. Access to these online lessons begins on the day of registration.
- A final examination which will be a 25 question, open-book, online examination. Achieving a passing grade of 80% (20 out of 25 correct) is required.
IMPORTANT: Completion of all components of the course and achieving a passing grade on the final exam are all required to achieve credit for the training hours in the course.
As stated above, course participants and recertification quiz candidates are responsible for supplying their own copies of the required codes and recommended practices.
Completion of this course does not remove the requirement to complete the API recertification quiz on the API website for candidates recertifying in their 6th year. This course is intended to assist in preparation for the recertification quiz.
CPD Hours
Registrants in this course are eligible to earn CPD hours based on the time they spend on self-paced learning. The online course software will track active hours spent by the course participant in the learning modules and practice questions. A certificate will be issued to the registrant upon completion of the course. This certificate will show the total number of self-paced, tracked hours spent by the course participant, up to a maximum of 24 hours. Please note:
- Course participants will receive up to a maximum of 24 CPD hours. The 24-hour maximum is not automatic. If a course participant spends less than 24 hours in the course, they will only receive CPD hours for the time tracked.
- To receive credit for the CPD hours, the entire course must be completed. This includes all lessons, practice questions, quizzes, and Practice Exams. Incomplete training materials are not eligible for CPD hours.
- CPD hours and completion certificates will not be issued prior to the completion of the course.
- Course participants are responsible for ensuring that CPD hours for self-paced learning are acceptable to the organization they require them for.