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Competence Assurance
Cogent Guidelines for Competency Management Systems for Downstream and Petroleum sites are the result of extensive consultation and designed with input from downstream industry experts. They support the industry’s well developed health and safety policies and procedures.
The guidelines are designed to ensure that an organisation’s competency management system not only improves staff motivation and performance, but critically reduces risks and the potential for human error.

The benefits of an effective competency management system include:

•    improved staff motivation and performance on the job
•    an organisational framework for staff development
•    reduction of incidents and accidents
•    greater efficiency 
•    a common framework which reduces administration and duplication across the organisation

The guidelines are applicable to all sizes of organisation, from non COMAH smaller sites - through to large top-tier COMAH sites.


A sound competency management system aligns organisational needs with the development needs of individuals within the organisation.

“It demonstrates that your employees and contractors are competent to carry out the tasks they are required to perform, and that they are continually developing, alongside the introduction of new technology and regulation.”

Chris Hunt, Director General UKPIA

"The need for organisation-wide processes for both developing and monitoring the competence of staff is paramount within both the sector and its supply chain.

“These guidelines have been designed to ensure such processes leave no stone unturned, and that competency management is enshrined across the entire workforce.”

Joanna Woolf, Cogent CEO, 



 
 
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