Offshore Diving Industry Agreement

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Each ODIA signatory company is an individual contractor with its own  contractual and operational arrangements for its personnel.

However, the ODIA enables a shared approach to shared concerns, which provides security for workers and a useful benchmark for the industry, generally.

The ODIA sets out minimum conditions which signatory companies expect the suppliers of diving personnel to apply as a minimum. Employers may, of course, supplement any of the minimum requirements with their own, company-specific terms, on pay, allowances, training, health and safety, workforce information and consultation, ill-health and injury benefits and so on. This means that pay and conditions variables are focussed on company-specific priorities, branding and ethos, while core standards are guaranteed.

IMCA

The company signatories maintain a close working relationship with the International Marine Contractors’ Association (IMCA) which has informed and supported the ODIA from its earliest days. The agreed qualifying criteria for grades, and the definitions which constitute the eligibility requirements for each category of personnel prescribed in the Agreement, are in accordance with the IMCA Competence Assessment and Assurance Scheme guidelines.