RBQ licence and exam glossary
The terms that come up in the RBQ exams and licence process, defined in our own words from the official sources, with the official French term.
160 terms, updated October 1, 2026
0 to 91 term
A18 terms
- Acceptance of the work (réception des travaux)
- Accounts payable (comptes fournisseurs)
- Accounts receivable (comptes clients)
- Act respecting industrial accidents and occupational diseases (LATMP)
- Act respecting labour standards (Loi sur les normes du travail)
- Act respecting occupational health and safety (LSST)
- Act to modernize the occupational health and safety system (LMRSST)
- Addendum (addenda)
- Administrative Labour Tribunal (Tribunal administratif du travail)
- Amortization (amortissement)
- Annexe I (general subclasses)
- Annexe II (specialized subclasses with an exam)
- Annexe III (specialized subclasses with no exam)
- Application for review (demande de révision)
- Apprentice (apprenti)
- Architects Act (Loi sur les architectes)
- ASP Construction (joint sector-based construction association)
- Association of Building Contractors of Québec (AECQ)
B7 terms
C29 terms
- Call for tenders (appel d’offres)
- Carnet référence construction (labour-referral service)
- CCDC (Canadian Construction Documents Committee)
- Certificate of compliance (attestation de conformité)
- Change order (ordre de changement)
- Charter of human rights and freedoms (Charte des droits et libertés de la personne)
- Claim to the CNESST (réclamation)
- Classification by major occupancy (classement selon l’usage principal)
- CMEQ and CMMTQ
- CNESST (Commission des normes, de l’équité, de la santé et de la sécurité du travail)
- CNESST assessment (cotisation)
- CNESST inspector (inspecteur)
- Commission de la construction du Québec (CCQ)
- Compensation for bodily injury (indemnité pour préjudice corporel)
- Competency certificate (certificat de compétence)
- Competency element (élément)
- Competency profile (profil de compétences)
- Construction Code, chapter I (Building)
- Construction management (gérance de construction)
- Construction sectors (secteurs de la construction)
- Construction site (chantier de construction)
- Contract of enterprise (contrat d’entreprise)
- Contractor (entrepreneur)
- Contractor’s licence (licence RBQ)
- Convocation notice
- Cost estimate (estimation des coûts)
- Cost plus contract (contrat à prix coûtant majoré)
- Critical path (chemin critique)
- Cultural Heritage Act (Loi sur le patrimoine culturel)
D3 terms
E10 terms
- Employer’s obligations (obligations de l’employeur)
- Employment injury (lésion professionnelle)
- Energy efficiency chapter (chapitre I.1, efficacité énergétique)
- Equity (capitaux propres, avoir)
- Exam information sheet (fiche)
- Exam on the carrying out of construction work
- Exam retake (reprise)
- Examination of knowledge in administration (examen d’administration)
- Examination of knowledge in project and site management (examen de gestion de projets et de chantiers)
- Examination of knowledge in safety management on construction sites (examen de gestion de la sécurité)
F2 terms
G7 terms
H6 terms
- Health and safety coordinator (coordonnateur en santé et en sécurité)
- Health and safety representative (représentant en santé et en sécurité)
- Health professional in charge (professionnel de la santé qui a charge)
- Health Services Fund contribution (cotisation au FSS)
- Hiring and mobility of employees (embauche et mobilité)
- Holdback (retenue contractuelle)
I6 terms
J1 term
L5 terms
M1 term
N5 terms
O3 terms
P15 terms
- PAEF (Programme d’accès à l’égalité des femmes dans l’industrie de la construction)
- Part 9 of the NBC (partie 9 du CNB)
- Pass mark
- Performance bond (cautionnement d’exécution)
- Personalized rate (taux personnalisé)
- Plan, organize, direct, control (PODC)
- Plans and specifications (plans et devis)
- Prevention mechanisms specific to construction sites (mécanismes de prévention)
- Prevention mutual (mutuelle de prévention)
- Principal contractor (maître d’œuvre)
- Priority processing
- Professional file (dossier professionnel)
- Progress billing (décompte progressif)
- Protective re-assignment (retrait préventif)
- Psychological harassment (harcèlement psychologique)
Q2 terms
R11 terms
- R-20 Act (Loi R-20)
- Re-assignment of a pregnant worker (retrait préventif de la travailleuse enceinte)
- Recognized training attestation
- Régie du bâtiment du Québec (RBQ)
- Rehabilitation (réadaptation)
- Representative association (association représentative)
- Restricted licence (licence restreinte)
- Retrospective adjustment of the assessment (régime rétrospectif)
- Review of a CNESST decision (révision administrative)
- Right to refuse (droit de refus)
- Right to return to work (droit de retour au travail)
S16 terms
- Safety Code (Code de sécurité)
- Safety Code for the construction industry (Code de sécurité pour les travaux de construction)
- Schedule (échéancier)
- Sector collective agreement (convention collective sectorielle)
- Shop drawings (dessins d’atelier)
- Site prevention program
- Sole proprietorship (entreprise individuelle)
- Source deductions (retenues à la source)
- Specialized contractor (entrepreneur spécialisé)
- Specifications (devis)
- Stipulated price contract (contrat à forfait)
- Subclass (sous-catégorie)
- Subcontractor (sous-traitant)
- Suitable employment (emploi convenable)
- Suspension and cancellation of a licence (suspension et annulation de licence)
- Sustainable development
T5 terms
U2 terms
V1 term
W4 terms
How to read this glossary
Each term links to its definition on the page of its letter. Terms are sorted without regard to accents, and terms that start with a digit are grouped under “0 to 9”. In this English glossary, a term sits under the first letter of its English name.
Definitions are written by RBQexam from the statutes, regulations and RBQ pages, without reproducing their text, and each one cites its source. The search box above filters term names; open a letter page to read the definitions.
Definitions written by RBQexam from the statutes and the RBQ’s pages, without reproducing their text. If in doubt, the official source prevails.
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