International Marine Contractors Association Website.
The International Marine Contractors Association (IMCA) is the international trade association representing offshore, marine and underwater engineering companies.

IMCA promotes improvements in quality, health, safety, environmental and technical standards through the publication of information notes, codes of practice and by other appropriate means. There are two core committees that relate to all members:

• Safety, Environment & Legislation
• Training, Certification & Personnel Competence

The Association is organised through four distinct divisions, each covering a specific area of members’ interests: Diving, Marine, Offshore Survey, Remote Systems & ROV. There are also four regional sections which facilitate work on issues affecting members in their local geographic area –

Americas Deepwater, Asia-Pacific, Europe & Africa and Middle

This is the medical committee which advises IMCA on diving medical matters.

This independent body, comprising diving medical specialists from across Northern Europe, seeks to provide advice about medical and certain safety aspects of commercial diving.

On this site you can find out about the committee's aims and history, its work and its members. The committee's guidance documents are made available for download and there is also a wide collection of links to related websites.

The HSE look after health and safety in nuclear installations and mines, factories, farms, hospitals and schools, offshore gas and oil installations, the safety of the gas grid and the movement of dangerous goods and substances, railway safety, and many other aspects of the protection both of workers and the public. Local authorities are responsible to HSC for enforcement in offices, shops and other parts of the services sector.

The International Diving Schools Association (IDSA) was formed in 1982 with the primary purpose of developing common Internationional Diving Standards

The Association is concerned with all divers - Offshore, Inshore and Inland - as well as specialist non-diving qualifications e.g. Supervisor, DMT and LST. It has already established International Diver Training Standards (details in the publications page) based on the consensus opinion of its many members.

The Standards provide both a yardstick for those responsible for either administering existing National Standards or creating new ones, and a guide for Clients, Diving Contractors and Divers themselves.

Founded in 1880 as the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, today's ASME is a 120,000-member professional organization focused on technical, educational and research issues of the engineering and technology community. ASME conducts one of the world's largest technical publishing operations, holds numerous technical conferences worldwide, and offers hundreds of professional development courses each year. ASME sets internationally recognized industrial and manufacturing codes and standards that enhance public safety.

Standards Norway is responsible for all standardisations areas exept electrotechnical and tele communication. Standards Norway adopts and publishes some 1,500 new Norsk Standard (Norwegian Standards), NS annually. NS is adopted by SN based on nationally made standards and on European and International standards. Standards Norway is the Norwegian member of CEN and ISO.