“Are you confident you can demonstrate the competence of your workforce?”
Cogent Competence Assurance
The Gold Standard Health Check
Cogent Competence Assurance is a total systems check to identify and manage regulatory requirements and business risks.
Using six key principles, this online tool will benchmark your company's competence performance. MORE >
What does it look like?
Online Questionnaire
- — Self-paced online questionnaire
- — Printable questions for group completion
- — Multiple choice and free comments
- — Industry specific questions
- — Online access to saved questions
What do I get?
- — Instant PDF download
- — Colour-coded comparison
- — Summary graphs
- — Benchmarked industry scores
- — Access to Cogent industry expert for follow-up advice
What does it cost?
The report costs £100 + VAT.
How soon can I begin?
- — You can start immediately
- — Online payment facility
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You can save your answers and return to the assessment later. You can also download the questions to share with colleagues and return to input the answers online.
What are people saying about it?
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"The Cogent SSC Competence Assurance toolkit will ultimately provide companies in the process industries with tools and guidance to help them develop and maintain effective competence management systems. The Health and Safety Executive Chemical Industries Division is keen to support and encourage this type of initiative, as a competent work force is central to the control of both major accident hazards and health and safety in general. We wish Cogent SSC every success with this venture."
Kevin Allars, Head of Chemical Industries Division
"The self assessment toolkit is a simple, sensible tool that will help companies, where they involve their workforce in the process, develop effective management systems on health and safety. Initiatives like this, where employers, unions and regulators work together, can make significant improvements."
Hugh Robertson, Senior Health and Safety Policy Officer, TUC
"We welcome the Cogent SSC Competence Assurance toolkit which will go a long way to support companies in process industries develop their competence management systems. The Department of Trade and Industry Energy Resilience Directorate wish Cogent SSC every success with the introduction of their new toolkit."
Brian Allison,
Head of Downstream Oil Refining & Retailing
"First Point Assessment, the Oil and Gas Industry's supplier database supports the introduction of Cogent's SSC Competence Assurance toolkit for suppliers. Improving competency in the supply chain leads to better performance and efficiencies across the Industry. First Point Assessment welcomes its introduction and wishes Cogent every success with its implementation."
Colin Donald, Operations Director
"Demonstrating organisational competence has long been a priority need amongst NEPIC members - it was top of the list when we surveyed our membership back in 2005. Since then we have been working with COGENT on a competence assurance process that meets industry needs. We are delighted with the COGENT Competence On Line Self Assessment Framework that has arisen from our work. It will be a great asset, applicable to all sectors of the Process Industry, in their effort to continuously improve their organisation's competence."
Dr Stan Higgins, CEO, North East Process Industry Cluster
"Cogent's web-based self-assessment places the all-important emphasis on company-wide competence. It is a total systems check which allows organisations identify and manage regulatory requirements and business risks. This essential tool can be used to objectively manage and measure improvements in competence performance over time. Whatever the nature or scale of the business organisational competence is central to meeting corporate aims and objectives. This tool means that it is the business that drives competence, rather than the other way around."
Joanna Woolf, Chief Executive, Cogent Sector Skills Council