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News Release from: AMEC
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 10 September 2007
Oil and gas training system is ECITB
accredited
The AMEC Oil and Gas Competency and Training scheme received ECITB accreditation and recognition in a presentation at the Offshore Europe Exhibition in Aberdeen this week
At the Offshore Europe conference in Aberdeen, AMEC, the international project management and services company, received accreditation from the Engineering Construction Industry Training Board (ECITB) for the AMEC Capability Development, Competence Assurance system (CDCA) in the oil and gas sector The CDCA system is the AMEC approach to the effective management of workforce development and competence assurance within the oil and gas industry, and was launched in the UK in March 2006
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 5 Sep 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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David Edwards, Chief Executive for the ECITB presented the accreditation to Susan Stewart, head of Human Resources for the AMEC Natural Resources business, Europe and West Africa.
"The ECITB endorses the AMEC CDCA process because it represents good practice in the recruitment, development and assessment of employees," said Mr Edwards: "The process is a robust, rigorous and flexible Competence Assurance system and delivers the outcomes required to meet the company's business needs".
Susan Stewart said: "AMEC is proud to have received this accreditation from the ECITB, which followed an in-depth audit of our systems.
The ability to demonstrate competence in an accurate and transparent way is an absolute requirement both with our customers and with regulators.
We have been developing this system for many years and have used it in Azerbaijan and on many contracts in the North Sea".
Through the CDCA system, AMEC has recently won a contract to assess the effectiveness of the existing training programmes in seven refineries for Tesoro Corporation in the US, to identify gaps that need to be addressed and to recommend solutions.
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