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IMCA's Safety, Environment & Legislation Core Activity promotes the sharing of experience and safety-related information, assists members with regard to measuring and demonstrating their good environmental performance and monitors, briefs and lobbies on issues concerned with legislation.
As one of the Association's 'core activities', all members benefit from its work. Its various activities are outlined below and detailed on the pages linked therefrom and in the left-hand navigation panel.
Work Programme
In line with the Association's overall and strategic objectives, each year the world-wide SEL Core Committee sets out a programme of specific projects and objectives which it will work towards achieving. Click here for more details on the current programme.
Safety
IMCA has a long history of bringing together its members' collective experience and expertise to produce guidance on safe operations. Its success in this field can be seen from the use made by regulators around the world in referencing IMCA specialist documentation in regulations which affect the marine contracting industry.
IMCA operates a safety flash system for dissemination of vital information on lessons learned from incidents to help prevent such incidents re-occuring elsewhere in the industry. In addition to initially distributing the flashes, the information received from members on these incidents is crucial in aiding divisional management committees when they formulate their work programmes. A number of workshops, briefing notes and guidance documents have followed on directly from issues first raised in these safety flashes.
Environment
In December 2000 IMCA's Overall Management Committee officially approved a the addition of 'Environment' into the committee's name, to reflect the growing amount of work and importance placed thereon by members on issues in this area. Since then, a number of publicly-available documents and members-only briefing notes have been produced on areas ranging from environmental performance indicators, the implementation of international environmental standards, client requirements, and minimising environmental impact, along with a number of events at which members have had the opportunity to hear from experts in the field and discuss their experiences.
Legislation
IMCA is active world-wide and at a regional/ national level in representing its members to governments and regulatory bodies, lobbying for fair, workable, effective regulations on behalf of its members and monitoring and reporting on regulatory developments for its members. Recent activities include extensive briefing on the European Working Time Directive as it applies to those seafarers and others involved in offshore work; discussions on mutual recognition by various governments of each others' basic safety training certificates and providing expert input to the US Coast Guard's proposals on outer continental shelf activities.
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