Competence Management Regulation

The problematic nature of competence is also reflected in the changes made in the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations for 2015, which have actually removed any reference to competence within this revised edition. Clause 4 (as was) has been omitted and competent still does not feature in Clause 2 Interpretation. However, within the Health and Safety Executive Guidance (2015b 8), those appointing the professional team must ensure they ... 

The responsible party shall ensure that the personnel at all times have the competence necessary to carry out the activities in accordance with the health, safety and environment legislation. In addition, the personnel shall be able to handle hazard and accident situations, cf. Section 14 of the Management Regulations and Section 23 of these regulations. 

Certification by an appropriate body should provide confirmation that the holder is fully trained, competent and authorised to do particular types of work. In the UK there are many competence-based registration schemes that can be relied on to provide recognised evidence of competence, as is required by the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 1994. The most general of these is the Construction Skills Certification Scheme (CSCS), which at present covers the following occupations ... 

Interestingly, anabolism and catabolism occur simultaneously in the cell. The conflicting demands of concomitant catabolism and anabolism are managed by cells in two ways. First, the cell maintains tight and separate regulation of both catabolism and anabolism, so that metabolic needs are served in an immediate and orderly fashion. Second, competing metabolic pathways are often... 

The main objective is to ensure that the needs are adequately described in each case and that all stakeholders (customers, regulators, competent authorities and other interested parties) have a clear understanding of their needs and how to meet them. The compliance with quality management issues can be met by certification as well as by accreditation (relevant provisions) the demonstration of... 

The concepts of quality management (QM) and QA in analytical laboratories were developed primarily to harmonize the world market and in connection with the globalization of the world s major trading zones they have now been formally established in relevant directives and standards—formerly ISO 25 and EN 45001, more recently ISO/IEC17025. The requirements of these standards have become widely accepted as market-regulating tools by both the chemical industry and independent laboratories for routine chemical analysis. At present they are extensively implemented in the form of accreditation, a universally accepted process by which an authoritative body at national or international level gives formal recognition that a laboratory or a person is competent to carry out specific tasks. 

Specific areas of competence of the NEA include safety and regulation of nuclear activities, radioactive waste management, radiological protection, nuclear science, economic and technical analyses of the nuclear fuel cycle, nuclear law and liability, and public information. 

Community on In-Vitro Diagnostics) is a European legislative regulation directed at in vitro manufacturers. The directive demands that the manufacturer have a quality management system and that products are validated by competent laboratories. It is required that the traceability of values assigned to calibrators or control materials or both must be ensured through available reference measurement procedures and/or available materials of higher order. Explicit statement of the uncertainty of calibrator values is not required, but indirectly the manufacturers have to... 

At the national level within Europe, the situation becomes yet more complicated for both regulatory and less tangible, cultural reasons. Each member state has a National Competent Authority (NCA) regulating pharmaceutical product price, label and distribution. Each NCA can mandate product withdrawal within its boundaries, and notify others about its concerns. But such a decision is never binding in any other part of the EEA, and there is certainly no obligation for one member state to implement a risk management program that has been mandated at the national level elsewhere. 

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