ADAS OVERVIEW

ADAS stands for the Australian Diver Accreditation Scheme. Through its international status, world class training standards and mutual recognition arrangements with other equivalent national schemes, ADAS qualifications have global recognition and acceptance.

ADAS-certified personnel are employed around the world – in Africa, Antarctica, Canada, China, Russia, South America, Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia, the USA – the list goes on and ADAS divers are out there getting down and dirty.

ADAS is, however, far more than just an energetic, active and preeminent occupational diver certification scheme. ADAS also proudly lays claim to being at the forefront in terms of providing extensive support to its divers and other certification holders.

ADAS actively works towards improving the conditions and safety of its certificate holders. We meet and communicate regularly with the industry’s peak bodies and regulators from around the world to review and enhance diving and diving–related training and assessment standards and to improve the global portability and recognition of diver qualifications.

We are energetically working to improve our own training and certification programs to make them more relevant to the related industry sectors. We are constantly looking for ways to make our training more accessible to our trainees through the utilisation of new technological developments. In the process, we aim to offer access to all divers and interested parties to up-to-date revision and extension materials through our new distance learning arrangements. We want to make this information available to all and to do our bit to improve the professionalism of the industry.

NATIONAL VOCATIONAL ALIGNMENT

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ADAS is also aligned with the national vocational education and training framework. Its courses are accredited under the Australian Skills Quality Authority (ASQA) as a nationally Registered Training Organisation (RTO). This adds another layer to the ADAS quality management arrangements and improves the Scheme’s credibility through the ASQA external audit process and the awarding of educational credits.

ADAS MISSION

The ADAS mission is to provide international accreditation for hyperbaric workers.

QUALITY OF SERVICE

ADAS aims for excellence in all its operations, striving to perform beyond mere compliance with government requirements and the national standards upon which its training and assessment is based.

ADAS fosters an attitude of continuous improvement within the organisation and its service providers, and adopts a systematic approach to embedding quality across all of its training and assessment systems.

Insistence on quality is applied consistently across all ADAS ATEs. These organisations undergo annual onsite inspections and regular desktop audits to ensure they are delivering to the quality standards and training and assessment requirements set by ADAS.

ADAS is audited on a regular basis by the national Vocational Education and Training registering body (ASQA), and by the Federal Government to ensure the requirements of relevant standards and legislation are met.

GOVERNANCE ARRANGEMENTS

The ADAS Board is comprised of independent non-executive Directors from various sectors of the occupational diving industry, each offering particular expertise and industry experience to the Board. These Directors are independent of management and free from any business relationship or other circumstance that could materially interfere with their exercise of objective, unfettered or independent judgement. The Board Directors perform their duties on a strictly voluntary basis.

The Board’s role is fundamentally to create and deliver value through the effective governance of the organisation and its nominee members also undertake to act as a conduit between their organisations and ADAS.