The Competence Process
The Competence Process This is the fourth article in the IMCA Competence and Training Committee’s Series “Understanding Competence”. Previously, we have considered 3 questions: What is Competence?Why use a Competence Scheme?Challenges to implementing a Competence Scheme. In this article we will look at the end-to-end competence process and consider two different examples of how competence works in practice. We will consider a typical Offshore Industry competence process, that for an ROV Pilot/Tech. We have previously identified 5 distinct activities which comprise the Competence process: Pre-requisites – this could be medical, educational or trade requirements Learning – the gaining of knowledge, understanding,