Because it provides clear guidance and a comprehensive self assessment process to allow you to identify and manage the regulatory requirements and business risks, specifically relevant to the process industry — your industry

Whatever the nature or scale of your business, your organisation’s competence and that of your people is central to you achieving your business aims and objectives.

Competence can be measured at individual level e.g. through recruitment, induction, training & development, assessment and validation processes, and qualifications obtained. It can also be measured at team and organisational level and those measures can be tailored to your type of industry – in this case the process industry.

By adhering to the Key Principles of competence assurance, and by following the guidance and completing the self assessment questionnaire you can establish a quantitative measure of your organisational competence. This will allow you to identify improvement opportunities and help you manage your organisation’s regulatory requirements and business risk effectively.

This measure can be used to benchmark your ‘competence’ status against other, perhaps similar organisations, and, by going back to the questionnaire, you can use it to objectively measure improvements in competence performance over a period of time.

Six Key Principles are the foundation of the self-assessment tool