Quick Guide

If your application has been completed successfully, and if your references have provided their response on time, then the certification process will take up to a week.

Information on the application status (accepted, rejected or additional information request) will be communicated to you through email.

Your certification process will take longer if your references do not respond on time.

Incomplete:  Please login into your member account by entering the credentials that have been provided for your member account registration and go to ‘My Certifications’ section. Then click on ‘Incomplete’ and finalize your application.

Reference Pending: You can either change your reference or resend a notification to the existing one. In order to change your reference, please log in at your PECB account and go to ‘My Certifications’. Then click on ‘Pending Reference’ and then ‘Change Reference’. If you want to resend the reference email address, just click ‘Submit’.

Application is In treatment: An application turns to ‘In treatment’ once the references have provided their response and the application is ready to be reviewed by the Certification Department. The review process takes about one week; meanwhile, the decision will be communicated to the applicant through email.

If your reference is not responding, you can change it using your PECB Account. To do so, click on the My Certifications tab, and then click the Reference Pending button on the right side of the application which will open a form you can use to change your reference.

The certificate expiration date is stated in the PECB certificate. Additionally, the same can be checked by logging into your PECB user account. A PECB certificate is valid for three years from the issuance date. The issue date is also stated in the certificate.

A PECB Certificate requires the payment of the maintenance fee. The annual reporting begins with the initial certification date.

PECB continuously notifies each PECB Professional to maintain their certificate(s). The notifications are sent several times throughout the certification cycle. The first one is sent three months before the annual certificate issuance date. The annual maintenance fee can be paid online through your dashboard, by logging here (www.pecb.com/login), clicking My Certifications, and then the Submit AMF button.

PECB Certified Professionals will need to provide PECB with the required hours of auditing and/or implementation-related tasks they have performed.

CPD’s can be submitted at any time. To do so, you need to login to your dashboard here (www.pecb.com/login), click on My Certifications>CPD Info>Submit CPD.

Upgrade

PECB Professionals can apply for a higher credential once they can provide evidence that proves that they fulfill the requirements of the higher credential.

The PECB Certificates can be upgraded online through your dashboard, by logging here (www.pecb.com/login), clicking My Certifications, and then the Upgrade button.

The application fee for an upgrade is $100.

Downgrade

A PECB Certificate can be downgraded to a lower credential due to the following reasons:

• AMF has not been paid.
• CPD hours have not been submitted.
• Insufficient CPD hours have been submitted.
• Evidence on CPD hours has not been submitted upon request.
• The PECB Code of Ethics has been violated.

Please login to your member account, go to “My Certifications” and click on “Upgrade” link located next to your certificate. All you need to do is to fill the required information. The upgrade fee to one of the Senior Credentials is $100.