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OPITO launches global awards for safety and competency

OPITO International is today launching its world-wide search for employers and training providers who can demonstrate the best commitment to building a safe and competent workforce.

Nominations open today for the OPITO Safety and Competency Awards which seek to recognise employers who have helped improve safety and competency through the use of OPITO standards and training providers who have improved their training deliver to ensure safe and competent workers.

The awards will be presented at OPITO’s second annual international safety and competency conference – OSCC 2011 – in Abu Dhabi on the 22nd of November.

Any company of any size can enter the Employers Award if they can demonstrate the rationale for adopting OPITO standards, describe the range of standards used, the number of employees trained or assessed to OPITO standards and provide evidence of where the standards have resulted in improve safety and competence.

Training providers from around the world can enter the OPITO Approved Training Providers Award. This award will go to the provider with the best staff development programme that can demonstrate innovation in learning and development.

David Doig, OPITO Group chief executive, said: “Safety is paramount and the industry has a fundamental duty to make sure that its people are competent and trained to the best possible standards. Our aim at OPITO is to work across the industry around the world to ensure that training is delivered to common, high standards that will result in competent people and significantly improved safety. We are therefore delighted to be able to recognise employers and training providers who are making a tangible difference to offshore and onshore safety.”

Entries can be made on-line at www.opito-oscc.com by Friday 26th of August 2011. An independent judging panel of industry leaders will score each entry according to the agreed criteria. Finalists will be announced by 30th of September 2011 and winners announced at OSCC 2011.

OSCC 2011 takes place in the Rotana Hotel, Yas Island, Abu Dhabi. The one day conference will focus on how the industry can develop a more competent workforce that significantly improves safety rather than one which simply complies with legislation and best practice.

The keynote speaker for the event, which aims to attract upwards of 300 delegates from around the world, is Lord Cullen, author of the Cullen Report, an outcome of the Piper Alpha tragedy.

OSCC is an annual event which brings operators, contractors and the supply chain together with training organisations from around the world to provide a forum for improving standards of safety and competency that protect the workforce and the industry’s reputation.

OPITO International delivers standards to improve workforce safety and competency at a global level with three business units focused on Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa, and the Americas. The organisation works with Governments, national oil companies, multi-nationals and contractors to meet their skills needs to provide independent advice and guidance on effective management of workforce skills development, emergency response and occupational standards and qualifications and quality assurance of training delivery.

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