Solara FT2100 Passes Evaluation Process
IAMSP’s Technical Evaluation Team (TET) is pleased to announce that the Solara Field Tracker 2100 has passed the technical vetting process with a score that allows for the Association to fully endorse its use. The fully endorsed status, very rarely achieved, indicates that the FT2100 and its supporting management infrastructure passed in all categories of the technical evaluation test.
This test considered the Field Tracker from the perspective of being able to provide two-way messaging and location monitoring for security teams without having to rely upon ship infrastructure. As has been reported by a significant number of security companies, some ship companies are either unwilling or unable to allow for continuous tracking or communication to security teams. Concurrently, the equipment also allows for command centers to communicate across their full accounts, greatly increasing the security teams’ ability to receive warnings of changing threat conditions.
The testing also remarks upon two elements of the FT2100 and its management. These two elements involve a safety feature that allows the unit to be more appropriate for air travel and a refurbishment project that significantly reduces unnecessary waste and environmental impact. Further details regarding these measures are available through the company.
The FT2100 is a real-time GPS tracking system that allows for two-way messaging through the Iridium satellite network and ensuring a global coverage. The equipment is fully portable and ruggedized (MIL STANDARD 810G) for survival in a range of conditions, including the maritime environment.
The unit is also supported by a control panel that is internet enabled through a secured portal, allowing control centers or other monitoring bodies the ability to track multiple units on a single graphic user interface and to coordinate a range of automated or custom messages throughout their full account.
Those that wish further details regarding the SOLARA Field Tracker 2100 are invited to visit the Solara website.
First Online Course Released
May 23, 2011 by admin · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Announcements, Certification, eLearning, Membership, Public, Training
Filed under: Announcements, Certification, eLearning, Membership, Public, Training
IAMSP is proud to announce the release of its first online professional development course, available as part of the Full and Associate membership within the Association. This course, the first of four, concentrates on the Duty of Care and is part of a series that is intended to set the baseline for professional conduct in the domain.
This training is intended to meet two critical needs within the industry.
First, IAMSP’s offering allows its Full and Associate members the opportunity, without incurring additional costs, to demonstrate to the industry that they are willing to expand their knowledge and understanding with respect to professional conduct. This serves to meet the industry’s need for a clear, verifiable means of determining the security practitioner’s understanding of key concepts that can be traced back through common and accepted audit processes.
Second, this offering demonstrates IAMSP’s commitment in support of its membership and the shipping industry, providing realistic, cost-effective alternatives to meet the shipping industry’s evolving requirements. As a further expression of good will, IAMSP’s Executive has also taken the decision to allow, assessed on a case-by-case basis, the release of the material to recognized and accredited maritime institutions as a tangible demonstration of our Association’s commitment to building long term solutions to these challenges in return for proper attribution of the work.
IAMSP’s commitment in this regard is to provide the industry, academic institutions, and practitioners with a cost-effective platform by which their members can broaden their knowledge and understanding of the maritime security domain. At the same time, these short courses will also be used as part of the Continuing Education and Upkeep requirements associated with the Certified Maritime Security Professional.
Vetting of Training Process Released
IAMSP is proud to announce that it has passed another benchmark in its efforts to provide support for professionalization within the maritime security industry. The Vetting of Training document provides the framework within which the Association can assess training from providers that are seeking the Association’s endorsement. This serves two purposes. First, it holds the provider to a high standard in the development of the training and then monitors that training to ensure that it is continuing to meet those requirements. Second, it ensures that the Association’s efforts in this respect are both clearly understood and transparent to the submitter, holding the Association accountable for mmaintaining a clearly communicated, documented, repeatable and audit-able process.
This benchmark is one of the final steps in the Association’s adherence to two key standards. The first, ISO 9001:2008 Quality Management Systems(and its associated documents) describes a management system that ensures that the requirements of the client, in this case the submitter and the candidate, are met. The second tier of documents, including ISO 17024:2003 Conformity Assessment – General requirements for bodies operating the certification of persons is intended to ensure that the training being endorsed has been through a process that clearly demonstrates its relevance to the industry.
The Vetting of Training document can be accessed from the Vetting of Training page for those that have registered on the IAMSP website.
IAMSP TET Supports OCEANUSLive.org Service
IAMSP is pleased to announce the results of the Technical Evaluation Team’s (TET) review of the OCEANUSLive.org service currently in beta testing and expected to move into full production mode in the near future. This review, undertaken by a team of three persons under the oversight of the President, examined the offering based upon its adherence to the latest and sound principles associated with maritime domain awareness, information and intelligence production, and its utility to the maritime security effort currently underway in the Indian Ocean (and applicable elsewhere).
This review touched on 168 topics that included reviewing the concept, design, fragility, safety, maintenance, life cycle management, risk management and training elements associated with the service being offered and took place over a six week period.
As a result of this effort, it is the assessment of the TET that the service does address a significant need or vulnerability currently evident within the maritime security awareness domain, has demonstrated that (under normal operating conditions) to be consistently reliable and to be reasonable in terms of integration and maintenance within organization’s normal operating routines.
The IAMSP is of the belief, based on sound doctrine and experience, that timely information communication and sharing is an essential element in helping protect our seafarers during higher-risk transits. We further echo the concept that such information sharing must be done across the full community of those seeking to protect our seafarers and add our voice to calls to the various reporting centers and organizations to focus on this important goal.
IAMSP Membership Identified in Bahamas Bulletin 128
IAMSP is pleased to inform those seeking to practice or practicing within the realm of armed security on board vessels that its membership has been accepted as one of three named organizations that can be used to assist in the verificationof professional standing accepted by the Bahamas Maritime Authority. This recognition is based upon our support for the International Code of Conduct for Private Security Service Providers.
IAMSP commits to ensuring that the following three principles are maintained in this effort:
- To maintain this status for as long as reasonable and for as long as it does not conflict with the principles defined in the Code of Practice;
- To ensure that this status is not abused through overpricing its memberships for persons seeking to join the Association, maintaining our core principles that professionalism is based upon competence, compliance and conduct and not the ability to pay; and
- To establish a clearly defined method for those members to both self-assess their level of adherence to the International Code of Conduct for Private Security Service Providers and to assist them in preparing for oversight activities (such as audits) that may result from the requirement to adhere to the written letter and principles of the Code.
For those that are seeking to meet this requirement and believe that they can achieve the highest professional standards, please feel free to contact us or visit the website for further details.
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