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Competence Management System (CMS) Approval

Model CMS Approval; CMS Performance Review

Evaluation and approval of organisations' competence management systems against industry-developed best practice criteria, with an optional performance review.

Description

OPITO CMS approval evaluates an organisation's existing Competence Management System against best practice criteria developed with industry stakeholders. The review covers employee selection, training and development, deployment and ongoing assessment.

Key features

  • Approval demonstrates commitment to industry criteria to clients and regulators
  • Supports tendering for work
  • Ongoing quality assurance reviews after approval
  • CMS Performance Review: a visit that benchmarks an existing system against the criteria and provides a roadmap of gaps and recommendations for achieving approval

Applications

Energy operators, contractors and service companies that must show their workforce is competent for safety-critical work. Approved organisations can extend scope to Workplace Competence Assessment.

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