What is the IMCA guidance on competence assurance and assessment?
IMCA’s guidance on competence assurance and assessment is designed to facilitate improved safety in the offshore industry by providing a framework for marine contractors to assess and demonstrate to others the competence of their ‘safety-critical’ personnel. The guidance provides criteria to be applied in the different operational sectors covered by the IMCA divisions – marine, diving, remote systems & ROV and offshore survey. “IMCA’s competence assurance and assessment guidance was launched in 1999 to provide a framework within which IMCA’s contractor members could demonstrate the competence of their personnel to clients and regulators. Although it has necessarily taken some time for IMCA members to implement their in-house schemes based on this framework, I believe that the effort put in to set up these schemes has been worthwhile and will deliver real benefits in improved safety. During the past five years, there has been an increasing global emphasis on the importance of using comp
