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“Risk Culture – fact or myth?” When: 11 November 2013 – 6.30 p.m. Where: The Box, LSE 5th Floor, LSE Tower 3 Clements Inn Strand London WC2A 2AZ Who: Professor Michael Power of the London School of Economics & Richard Anderson of Crowe Horwath Global Risk Consulting Building on our series of talks and dinners, we thought that you might be interested this time in a discussion about”Risk Culture”. This phrase is popping up everywhere, and as the pundits say it is widely recognised that problems with organisational culture played a major role in the financial crisis which crystallised in
The Maritime Part Authority (MPA) Singapore has approved an application from IMCA to be included in the Maritime Cluster Fund (MCF) for a training grant for the IMCA Annual Seminar 2013 in Singapore on 6-7 November. The IMCA 2013 annual seminar has been approved as an MPA short course and eligible candidates can apply for a 70% grant towards their seminar fees, which would be reimbursed after the seminar takes place. To be eligible for the grant you must fit the following criteria: Participants must be Singaporean Citizens or Permanent Residents Participants must be employees of business entities / organisations
As the industry moves inexorably forward and looks further into the future, evolution is of course inevitable. In addition to working in new geographies and topographies, there are also changes to regulation, legislation and the environment, including the political one. These issues combine to make our contracting activities increasingly difficult; ever more complex, challenging and risk laden. This requires us all to deliver to high standards, and places an emphasis on the need for sustainable and viable contractors in all segments of the market. Whilst the business is high profile and often high value, that profile is not always recognised,
There are several section meetings, seminars and workshops coming up in the IMCA Calendar. For more information on these, please see the list below. Workshops and seminars require prior registration, registration information can be found on the more information link for the event below. Date Event 19 September Central & North America section meeting. Click here for more information. 19 September Competence Seminar – Building for the future: advancing competence assurance. Houston, USA. Click here for more information. 30 September Middle East and India section meeting. Click here for more information. 8 October Wire Rope Workshop: Lubrication of Subsea Wire
IMCA has issued a call for papers for the IMCA Annual Safety Seminar, taking place on 18-19 March, 2014 in Houston, USA, on the theme Opportunities & Exposure in Marine Operations. The deadline for papers is 20 September 2013, for more infomation including guidance on submitting a paper please see the Safety seminar page.
Bookings for the IMCA Annual Seminar 2013, taking place at the Shangri-la Hotel in Singapore on 5-6 November on the theme Addressing the Challenges of New Frontiers are coming in steadily with many people taking advantage of the IMCA Early Bird booking offer, with tickets for the two day seminar and three social events priced at £500 per individual from member organisations and £700 for non-members. The early bird special offer ends on 15 September 2013, so book now and don’t miss out! Please see the seminar page for more information on the seminar including an updated programme.
Job description IMCA, the influential international trade association representing offshore, marine and underwater engineering companies is seeking a technical adviser to join the technical team supporting and implementing IMCA’s wide-ranging work programme. The role would suit an offshore professional such as a master or DPO, deck officer, engineer, offshore diving supervisor or someone with extensive experience and knowledge of offshore marine construction or diving operations wishing to be shore based. Experience of dynamic positioning in any of these roles would be an advantage. Having responsibility for developing technical guidance, briefing members and co-ordinating committee work, the technical adviser will work
Six IMCA publications have been translated into Chinese and can be downloaded via the IMCA website, reflecting the increasing internationalisation of the association and the growing number of IMCA members working in the Asia-Pacific region. The publications are: IMCA D 014 Rev. 1 – IMCA international code of practice for offshore diving IMCA D 015 – Mobile/portable surface supplied systems IMCA D 018 – Code of practice on the initial and periodic examination, testing and certification of diving plant and equipment IMCA D 030 Rev. 1 – Surface supplied mixed gas diving operations IMCA D 035 – The selection of
The offshore industry is remembering the Piper Alpha tragedy of 6 July 1988, as we approach 25 years since the fateful incident. Our thoughts return to the families and loved ones of those who lost their lives. The memories we have of the disaster should continuously be used to work toward prevention of anything similar. As with wars, the past must be utilised to inform the future. Following Piper Alpha there was a change in the UK regulatory regime offshore to a more general goal setting approach, with the focus on major accident prevention. Similar approaches in legislation have been
Here at IMCA, we have recognised that it is time to start using new channels and we’d like to invite you to ‘like’, ‘follow’ and ‘connect’ with us so you can stay up to date with all the latest news and information we share. An overwhelming number our member companies (and the individuals working for them) are already active on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook, so we have started using these channels too. We will be sharing information and announcing IMCA news, industry news, stories about events and useful links. Use the following links to connect with us. like us on
CMID Update is a quarterly newsletter related to the IMCA M 149 CMID inspection and the associated eCMID database, www.imcacmid.com. The newsletter keeps readers up to date with changes to the CMID, changes to the eCMID database and other developments, such as CMID workshops.
The results are in from the IMCA Golf Day 2013! It was a good day for Oceaneering International’s Kai Evans, who scooped up a hattrick of prizes for Individual Winner, Nearest the Pin on the 6th and the Best Front 9. London Offshore Consultants picked up the team prize with an impressive score of 142. Golf Day report 2013 IMCA held its 9th annual Golf Day on 16 May at Newmacher Golf Club, Aberdeenshire. Over 70 golfers from across IMCA’s membership formed 19 teams to do battle for the famous IMCA Quaich trophy. However, it was not just about first
On 10-12 June, Airmic Conference 2013, the biggest Commercial Insurance event of the year, is taking place in Brighton, UK. Over 800 industry buyers and sellers of the insurance market will attend, seeking to keep up-to-date with trends, discover new service providers, learn and network with their peers, and be inspired by keynote speakers. The organiser, Airmic, is a members’ association who support those responsible for risk management within their own companies. To find out more about Airmic and attending Airmic 2013 click here.
Once again, IMCA has been involved with Ocean Business and this year the event has been a bigger hit than ever before. Our new Chief Executive, Chris Charman, our Membership Co-ordinator, Michelle Killington and our Technical Advisers, Nick Hough and Neil Evans were present over the course of the three day event to discuss the work of the Association, answer people’s questions and meet prospective members. On Tuesday 9 April Chris Charman presented ‘Managing risk together – IMCA’s role’ at the Blue Economy Conference, held alongside the event, which highlighted the combined need for maritime knowledge and what industry and
IMCA are pleased to share the news that Griffin is our new official travel adviser. The relationship will provide a new standard of travel and logistics for our events and meetings world-wide. After meeting with various travel companies, IMCA chose to work with Griffin thanks to its reputation as the most respected travel specialist for the marine and offshore industries. As part of the agreement Griffin will be sponsoring a special evening function on this year’s IMCA Annual Seminar in Singapore in November 2013. More details will follow as the seminar approaches.For more information regarding Griffin please visit www.griffinglobalgroup.com
IMCA Members may be interested to hear about the publication Roads to Ruin – A Study of Major Risk Events: Their Origins, Impacts and Implications which has been produced by Airmic, a fellow members’ association. The case studies outlined in Roads to Ruin consist of some of the world’s biggest organisations, with the risk events having considerable, often catastrophic, impacts on these organisations. The report has huge value, not only to risk professionals, but to the boards of directors to which they report. Airmic support those responsible for risk management and insurance within their own companies. Like IMCA, Airmic provide
Welcome to my first Making Waves message, as I pick up the baton and say my thanks to the work of the outgoing President, my good friend Andy Woolgar. IMCA’s role in the industry has been an important one and there remains much for us to do. We have come a long way since our beginnings as AODC and DPVOA and grown massively across the last 10 years under the stewardship of Hugh Williams, to reach current membership numbers in excess of 900. With a change of President and Chief Executive and the end of 2012, it was felt right
Two new pocket safety cards have been published by the International Marine Contractors Association (IMCA). IMCA’s 22nd card covers electrical hazards attracting attention with its message”electricity can kill or severely injure people and cause damage to equipment”. It details the hazards, and provides bullet points on assessing and reducing the risks of electrical shock. The 23rd card covers noise, warning that too much noise – or prolonged exposure to it – can cause permanent and disabling hearing damage, and has some handy pointers for assessing if there is too much noise in a workplace, how to reduce exposure to noise,
CMID Update is a quarterly newsletter related to the IMCA M 149 CMID inspection and the associated eCMID database, www.imcacmid.com. The newsletter keeps readers up to date with changes to the CMID, changes to the eCMID database and other developments, such as CMID workshops.
Chris Charman has now taken over from Hugh Williams as Chief Executive of the International Marine Contractors Association (IMCA). He joined the association on 3 December working with outgoing CEO Hugh Williams, who is retiring at the end of the year. With two weeks in post under his belt, during which he has met scores of members and attended a host of meetings, Chris Charman said: “I love the passion I am seeing from members and am greatly looking forward to working with them in the coming years; and to learning in detail what they do. I am already appreciating
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