Industrial Maintenance International


`Industrial Maintenance International Ltd. is NCCER certified`

Executive Summary

The National Center for Construction Education and Research (NCCER), in partnership with contractors, industry associations, and owner groups, created a national industry-standardized assessment and certification process for the construction, maintenance, and pipeline industries. The goal of the program is to evaluate the competence-level (knowledge and skills) of experienced workers, resulting in documentation of competence level and verification of skills.

Benefits

The benefits of NCCER certification include :

	Meeting the demands of owners and pipeline operators regarding workforce competence and qualification
	Identifying workforce knowledge and skills
	Eliminating duplication of efforts and the burdens it places on workers
	Increasing opportunities for the workforce for obtaining credentials
	Elevating the sense of professionalism
	Increasing workforce involvement in training
	Assisting employers in maximizing their training dollars
	Enhancing career progression opportunities
	Enhancing safety, quality, and productivity
	Improving the industry’s image.

In addition to these benefits, employers can benefit from reduced project and/or corporate overhead expenses through the following means :
	Substantially reducing or eliminating the need to invest company funds in the development, validation, administration, maintenance, revision, and tracking of in-house assessment, certification, and/or pipeline operator qualification programs.
	Increasing the ability to conduct efficient, cost-effective, task-focused training.

Purpose

The National Craft Assessment and Certification Program (NCACP), administered by the National Center for Construction Education and Research (NCCER) in cooperation with Prov, is designed to be an efficient and effective process to verify and document a participant’s craft knowledge and skills.

NCACP assessments should not be used as :

1) The only criteria to qualify/disqualify an applicant or employee from hire or continued employment, or
2) The only instrument to assess applicant/employee craft knowledge or skills.

Instead, this process will verify that a participant has successfully demonstrated knowledge and skills in his respective job classification in accordance? with the designated job duties and standards developed by Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) from the construction, maintenance, and pipeline industries.

The NCACP will also provide employers a basis for identifying and recording an applicant’s or employee’s craft skills at a given time. It is the intent of all parties to maintain a record of all assessment results an individual participant successfully demonstrates.

NCCER’s National Registry will be used to maintain these records. This information may or may not be totally inclusive of a participant’s knowledge, skills, and/or performance.
This is not a guarantee from the NCCER on the actual working ability of the participant, only documentation that the participant has, at the time of being assessed, demonstrated skills to the standards referred to above.

NCCER is an independent entity run by its own Board of Trustees. NCCER is responsible for managing the day-to-day operational functions of this program.

Industrial Maintenance International Ltd. is TRACE certified

			Seeking innovative ways to protect its reputation, communicate its business ethics and meet its anti-corruption compliance obligations, IMI is proud to be TRACE Certified.

	Voluntarily committed to greater transparency and ethical business practices, IMI with the support of TRACE adopted a written code of conduct addressing bribery, kick backs, nepotism and extortion. TRACE is a business association that was founded in 2001 by private sector anti-bribery practitioners to pool resources to provide practical and cost-effective anti-bribery compliance solutions for multinational corporations and commercial intermediaries. TRACE specializes in due diligence and training for commercial intermediaries – sales agents, consultants, suppliers, and distributors – and company employees based around the world.

			TRACE bases its review process on best practices identified by leading multinational corporations, guidelines from the U.S. Department of Justice, and case law. The review process, outlined in the TRACE Standard, has been acknowledged as a best practice by Transparency International, the Oil and Gas Producer’s Association and leading international companies such as the Royal Dutch/Shell Group of Companies.

Industrial Maintenance International is continuing its effort in 2006

In 2006, IMI will pursue the implementation and the certification of its health, safety and environment charter for the Company’s major operating units according to the international guidelines in force (ISO 14001, OHSAS 18001, VCA).

Also in 2006, additional operating units of the Company will work to have their management system ISO 14001 certified.

In 2006, IMI is continuing its effort in the area of quality in order to obtain ISO 9001:2000 certification.