OCAS services

The Management of 'Competence' within an organisation is a key business concern, whatever the nature or scale of that business. Your organisation's Competence and that of your personnel are pivotal to you achieving your business goals and objectives. Namaka Compliance offers support and guidance in all aspects of Competence Assurance Management Systems. Our considerable expertise in the Design, Implementation and Management of Competence Assurance Systems has seen us provide this service in support of industries such as; Renewable Energy, Drilling & Exploration, Petrochemical, Railway, Marine and Construction in the United Kingdom and overseas locations.

Namaka Compliance's Competence Assurance Consultancy processes can include analysing a company's existing systems identifying appropriate competence standards for their industry or regulatory requirements. They are designed to allow the definition of standards of Competence, enabling the development and delivery of assessment and verification processes that align organisational needs and the needs and development aspirations of all personnel. As well as providing direct support, we also offer Assessor and Verifier training for those supporting in-house programmes. Training and assessments are conducted by our highly experienced team of Competence Assessors, Verifiers and CA Trainers who operate both in the United Kingdom and overseas (on and offshore).

Due to increase in demand from clients Namaka Compliance have created Outsourced Competence Assurance Support (OCAS) services, this is where Namaka Compliance undertake the role of competence department for organisations.

Namaka Compliance have created Outsourced Competence Assurance Support (OCAS) services, enabling organisations to outsource all their competence requirements. Namaka Compliance can undertake OCAS services for SME's to Tier 1 EPC's and IEC's, acting as their extended Competence arm. This allows organizations to concentrate on their core business while ensuring that all competence elements are managed effectively.

OCAS allows clients to have access to a Team lead, Advisors and Co-ordinators which in most case would increase their costs substantially, however at Namaka Compliance this is done through a retainer fee per month over a year and is far less than taking on staff at a full-time basis. What also differentiates us from our competitors is that these personnel are staff and not contractors ensuring continuity with our clients.

Organisations operating in highly regulated sectors such as Oil and Gas, Power Generation, and Nuclear are required to have a robust competence framework. Namaka Compliance can undertake a gap analysis to determine where the organization currently stands in terms of competence framework development. This allows Namaka Compliance to allocate the necessary resources and supporting documentation, ensuring that the processes are mapped effectively.

OCAS Solutions provide the following services:

• Constant access to competent expertise
• representation of any client meetings on Competence
• Updating of 'Athena' online CMS with all necessary documentation and discipline awards
• Internal audits of Competence in line with international standards
• Inputting Competence information into tenders and pre-qualifications
• Training of assessors and verifiers to either external qualifications or in-house standards.

The benefit of OCAS Solutions is that it enables clients to focus on their core business and is done through a contractual/retention basis. Namaka Compliance extends the organization's current HR, Training, and Competence Team with regular reporting to management.

Namaka Compliance have a defined process whereby we develop the competence framework to create a structured Competence Management system (CMS), this involves a three phase process.

• Phase 1 Development of the competence framework
• Phase 2 Assessor and Verifier Training
• Phase 3 Onboarding and inductions of all to our online CMS 'Athena'