Anchor Point Marine Consultants

Marine Training & e-learning Consultancy

Competence Assurance

 

For the last 15 years we have been working with companies and industry bodies to define and develop competence assurance.

 

Competent performance means doing what should be done, when it should be done, in the manner that it should be done, as defined by the company’s needs.

 

Competence, Competency and Competence Assurance.

 

Competence 

Is the ability to perform particular tasks and duties to the standard`of performance expected in the workplace.

In other words doing the required task to the required standard

 

Competency 

Is the description of the knowledge, skills, experience and behavioural attributes necessary to carry out a defined function to the standard of performance expected in the workplace.”

In other words – the performance standard.

 

Competence Assurance

Once the competency is described, and the person sets out to perform the task to that standard, we need to have criteria that allow us to judge that performance. A set of assessment criteria or evidence items must be developed to be used by anyone judging the performance. To monitor and thereby assure ourselves of competence, as well as establish a strategy for development, requires three basic steps:

 

  • the periodic assessment of individuals,
  • recording of results, and
  • analysis of processes and procedures.

 

The development of the exact competencies and assessment criteria requires examination of the industry standards, the company SMS, operating instructions, equipment manuals and input from system experts within the company.

Any “job”, “task” or “function” identified can then be broken down into competence “elements” and then each element into “performance criteria”. These are the observable statements of performance that, when undertaken correctly to the assessor’s satisfaction, are the direct evidence of competent performance.

 

This is what we do.

 

Anchor Point Marine Consultants have completed analysis and development of competence assurance systems for deck and engineer officer ranks, Crane operators, FPSO technician and production operators to name a few.