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IMCA's Remote Systems & ROV Division concerned with all aspects of equipment, operations and personnel related to remotely controlled systems (including ROVs) used in support of marine activities.
The decades of cumulative experience of IMCA members are brought together in the division's set of guidance, aimed at aiding safe and efficient operations on a world-wide basis.
The division's 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 divisional management 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.
Code of Practice for the Safe and Efficient Operation of Remotely Operated Vehicles
The ROV industry is one of the most dynamic in the world. New equipment is constantly entering the market; and ROVs continue to find new applications. As the offshore industry moves towards more and more diverless intervention, their role in construction and maintenance will increase, along with their more traditional use for underwater inspection and observation. Created with that dynamism in mind and still aiming to provide the basis for safe and efficient operations on a world-wide basis, the code has recently been fully reviewed and revised to take into account the latest technological developments and the establishment of the IMCA framework of guidance on competence assurance and Assessment Scheme in the ROV sector. For full details, click here.
Auditing of ROV Systems
The division has also produced a standard ROV audit document. It provides a set of templates for a high-level ROV audit document, each covering a specific phase/element of an ROV project; and has been produced with the aim of simplifying and standardising the way clients present their requirements and operators their ways of fulfilling them, to minimise duplication and excessively different ways of doing the same thing. Click here for full details.
Other Technical Guidance - In addition to those documents listed above, the division has produced a range of referenced and related guidance relating to specific technical and safety issues.
Contracting Issues
IMCA has recently been working on the preparation of guidance which seeks to raise awareness among its members and their clients of contract-related issues in the sector. For full details, click here.
Personnel Initiatives
The Remote Systems & ROV has been a leader in the implementation of IMCA's guidance on competence assurance and assessment, having developed additional, complementary guidance which was incorporated into the wider guidance documentation during a recent major revision. The division has also produced a range of guidance on both introductory and specialist technical training courses for ROV personnel. Certain careers information is also available. For full details on the various personnel initiatives undertaken by IMCA for the ROV industry, click here.
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