Becoming an accredited ADAS Diver Training Establishment (DTE)
Becoming an ADAS Diver Training Establishment (DTE)
ADAS is part of an international network of national diver certification bodies. These national certification bodies recognise each other certificates as being valid for entering into occupational diving in all the member countries or for directly crossing over to the national certification in question. This means that ADAS divers can work as occupational divers in almost every part of the world.
The linchpin of this system is the quality of the diver training and assessment and the standards to which they train and assess. The member organisations regularly undertake peer reviews of each other’s training and assessment arrangements to ensure that these standards are being maintained.
A cornerstone of the ADAS quality control system is therefore the high standards it requires of its accredited DTEs. To become accredited as a DTE, the applicant organization must meet very demanding requirements in regard to plant and equipment, venues, the delivery of training and assessment, transport, resources, staff, curriculum, etc.
Interested organisations may make application to ADAS for accreditation as an ADAS DTE. If they meet the stipulated requirements in regard to their professional, diving, training, assessment and business competence and credibility, and the standards of their facilities, resources, staffing, etc, they may be considered for accreditation as an ADAS DTE.
The applicant organization must satisfy ADAS that it has arrangements in place to ensure the adequate delivery of ADAS programs. ADAS must be assured that prospective organisations can deliver the required quality of training and assessment.
This is a bit of a Catch 22 issue for both ADAS and the prospective DTE. By certifying divers with an ADAS Certificate of Competency, ADAS is for all intents and purposes guaranteeing the standard of those divers for prospective employers. ADAS cannot afford to have any doubt cast on the quality of its divers, nor can the prospective organization afford to have its divers rejected by ADAS.
How can an organisation that has never been an ADAS occupational Diver Training Establishment guarantee to ADAS that it will deliver the required standard of occupational diver training and assessment on the very first course that it conducts?
The only solution that ADAS has been able to identify is that prospective DTEs must have on staff, from their first course onwards, sufficient certified ADAS Diver Trainers and Diver Training and Assessment Manager at the appropriate level to conduct the approved training and assessment programs. They must therefore either
- identify and recruit appropriately qualified and certified staff; or
- enter into a partnership with an existing ADAS DTE to provide that staff and enter into some function function sort of agreement to transfer the appropriate competencies across to the new organisation.
Once they have gained full accreditation, ADAS DTEs may train and assess divers and recommend them to ADAS for issue with an ADAS Certificate of Competency.
DTEs must maintain their full accreditation with ADAS in order to recommend divers for ADAS certification. If their recognition is suspended or revoked, or they become inactive, such organisations may no longer represent themselves as ADAS DTEs or train and/or assess divers for ADAS.
Full details of requirements for applying for accreditation can be viewed by clicking on the following hotlink.
Details on how to apply to become an accredited ADAS DTE (DOC 68 K)
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