Abstract
The 2008 SaRS Annual Conference revealed a nationwide shortfall in both safety and reliability management skills. Coherent competence assessment across all industrial domains has become a strategic priority. A review of known schemes (nuclear, railways, defence and airtraffic industries, academia and industry trainers), reveals several common themes. This paper seeks to scope the shape of future debate on competence requirements.By utilising a system of peer review, a master index of systems-safety competence schemas is possible, rather than seeking to develop yet another rival scheme. We will use the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA) framework to “recognise” modules. We aspire to certify an individual's competence by endorsing educational levels achieved, company CPD and experience and provide a route map for individuals to identify their development needs.Core subjects (from existing competency schemes) collated in a matrix help identify routes to competence as individuals “change careers”. SaRS will continue to partner with other Institutes to gain consensus and increase Eng-Tech and IEng membership of their sectors and our discipline as well as identifying competence gaps in current or new routes through the matrix to achieve a Systems Safety or Systems Reliability professional registration.
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