RECERTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS

Failure to comply with one or more of the applicable requirements during your recertification cycle will preclude you from earning a recertification. Except for the 2023, 2024 and 2025 Phase-in periods, all Recertificants must provide 24 CPD hours over their three-year recertification cycle.

1. Work Requirements - Every 3 years

API 510 inspectors need to demonstrate that a minimum of 20% of time over the most recent three-year certification period was spent performing or supervising pressure vessel inspection activities as described in the API 510 inspection code.

Inspectors who have not been actively engaged in pressure vessel inspection practices will be required to take the full examination.

2.  Continuing Professional Development (CPD) - Every 3 years

Beginning January 1, 2022, Continuing Professional Development (CPD) hours will be included in the 3-year recertification requirements. CPD activity must be relevant to the API 510 certification.

ICP will have a phased implementation of the CPD hour requirement beginning with 8 CPD hours required for individuals whose certification expire after January 1, 2023. The full CPD requirements of 24 CPDs will be implemented for those expiring on or after January 1, 2025.

Review the CPD Guidance Document for additional information on what activities are acceptable.

Activities should vary between categories. Minimum should be across two of the categories. 

You must upload proof of activity to Education page on your ICP Portal account along with your Recertification application. 

Fill out the API CPD Activities Form if no other form of proof. Please print this form and sign in person prior to submitting with your Recertification application. 

3. Webquiz - Every 6 years

API 653 Recertification Publications Effectivity Sheet (Valid beginning April 3, 2023)

• API 653 Aboveground Storage Tank inspectors are required to take an on-line, open-book quiz every six years in order to recertify.
• The quiz is available 90 days prior to your expiration date and for a grace period of 90 days after. The quiz will not be available beyond this grace period, or after your certification has expired.
• You may take the quiz either before or after you submit your recertification application.
• To take your recertification quiz, or to determine if a quiz is needed for your current certification, log into your account in the ICP Portal. If a web quiz is due, there will be a notification at the top of your 653 certification page with a link that will take you to the quiz. You may also go directly to the Web Quiz Gateway. If a quiz is needed, you will see a notification in bold red stating that a quiz is required.
• NOTE: Your Web Quiz log is the same username and password that you use to log into your account in the ICP Portal.
• Each quiz has 25 questions that address the changes in the relevant API codes over the past six years.
• You have a total of four hours to complete the quiz, and it may be paused or interrupted up to three times.
• If you fail the quiz once you will be able to take it again. If you fail the quiz a second time you will not be able to recertify. You will need to submit a new application and take the full version of the exam to certify again.