Association of Diving Contractors UK
The Association represents diving contractors who are involved with inland or inshore diving operations in the UK and Ireland


Information : Supervisor Scheme


The ADC Inland / Inshore Diving Supervisors Certification Scheme
Introduction:
This scheme started on 1st April 2000. The various points of detail were agreed at a meeting of the Association Members in November 1998 and work to implement the scheme started soon after.

The scheme is based around a self study regime. Prospective supervisors who meet the necessary criteria are registered and supplied with the ADC Inland / Inshore Diving Supervisors Manual, a comprehensive reference manual that seeks to explain all the key elements that a supervisor would be expected to know and understand on an Inland / Inshore diving site.

In addition to reading and understanding the contents of the manual, prospective supervisors will be expected to gain on site experience with their employer and the combination of the two should lead them to a point where they feel confident to sit the final exam.

The scheme is open to non members of ADC assuming the application form is submitted by a bona-fide diving contractor working in the UK and registered with the HSE. A current list of all the certified ADC supervisors can be seen here.

The following summary is intended to give the main parameters of the scheme.

Guidelines:

Applications for a person to be issued with an ADC diving supervisors certificate will not be accepted from individuals under any circumstances. They must be made by a diving contractor. The person proposed as a supervisor must meet the following:

Age Must be a minimum of 24 years old.
Qualifications Must have held at least HSE Part III (or equivalent) for two years.
Experience Must have at least 200 commercial dives (not including training dives) using surface supplied equipment. At least 100 of these must be inland/ inshore dives carried out in the UK or Ireland. Dives carried out offshore or in other countries may count towards the 200 total but not towards the 100 inland dives.
Training While candidates may have attended and passed a formal training scheme run by a training school, this is not a requirement of the scheme. ADC will make available an Inland / Inshore Diving Supervisors Manual which will contain all of the theoretical knowledge required in relation to the ADC scheme.
Support Candidates must be recommended in writing by a senior person in an Inland/ Inshore diving contractor. In the case of ADC members this should be the formal ADC point of contact. If an application is received from a non ADC member company then the management committee will decide on the detailed level of support and recommendation required.
Examination Candidates must sit and pass an examination set by ADC. This will be a written examination but will include questions on practical aspects.
Grandfathering Since it is recognised that there were many competent and experienced diving supervisors already working in the industry, a facility was available where such people could gain an ADC certificate without having to meet all of the requirements that a new entrant would have to meet. This was known as Grand fathering.

This facility was only available up until 30th September 2001 and after that time ALL applicants have been treated as new entrants.
Special Cases The setting up of a scheme such as this will result in a number of special cases which do not fit in to the normal rules of the scheme. Exceptions will not be made simply because a candidate has not completed one or more of the requirements but exceptional cases will be referred to the management committee for a decision (which will be final). Appeals against examination failure or similar will be dealt with in the same way.
Timescale It is intended that ALL diving supervisors employed by ADC members will be required to have an ADC certificate after the 1st January 2007
Costs ADC's costs depend on where and how examinations are set up. A fixed charge will be made which will include the supply of an individual supervisor's manual, sitting the examination, administration costs and the issue of a certificate with the supervisor's photographs on it.

The applicable charge forms part of the Appendix 1 - Subscriptions and Charges available in the Membership Application Pack on this website.

The current charge, valid from 1/1/06 to 31/12/06 will be:
50.00 For ADC members.
100.00 for Non ADC members.
Failures If a person fails the exam then they will be allowed to resit after a gap of at least 1 month.

If they fail the resit then they must wait 6 months before trying again.

Any person still failing at the end of the third attempt will not be allowed to sit the exam again for a minimum period of 2 years. They would then start again as if a newcomer to the scheme.
Chambers Chamber operation will not be part of the basic supervisor exams or certificates as it is considered that many supervisors will never need to use a chamber.

It is recognised that the scheme must not make it unreasonably difficult for good, competent, experienced personnel to obtain an ADC Diving Supervisor Certificate. Equally for the certificates to be seen as worthwhile, they must not be easy to obtain by personnel who do not have the necessary aptitudes for the work. This is a difficult balance to strike and the following method of operation is designed to achieve this aim.
  1. Applications for a supervisor to join the scheme will only be accepted from diving contractors who have notified their particulars to HSE as required under the 1997 Diving at Work Regulations.

  2. The diving Contractor should complete an application form (obtainable from the Application Pack available on this website). This must be fully completed and signed by a responsible person acting on behalf of the diving contractor. In the case of an ADC member company, this should be the person who is the official point of contact.

  3. The application form should be sent to the ADC office along with two passport size photographs of the diving supervisor and payment of the appropriate fee.

  4. Upon receipt of the correctly completed form, payment and photos, ADC will send a copy of the diving supervisor manual to the supervisor's home address along with details about the examinations.

  5. Once the diving supervisor has studied the manual and feels he is ready to sit the examination, he will contact the ADC office, by submitting the Request for Exam issued once an application has been registered. In due course he will be offered a date, time and place to sit the examination.

  6. At the examination, the supervisor's identity will be checked using the photographs and then be permitted to sit the paper.

  7. After the examination, the answer paper will be sent away for marking and the supervisor notified whether he has passed or not. If he passes, a certificate bearing a photograph will be sent to him. If he fails, instructions will be sent about resitting.

  8. ADC maintain a central register of valid names and certificate numbers such that details can be confirmed and validated easily. In addition all valid certificates are listed on this website and an additional list of lost or stolen cards is being compiled for reference by ADC members only.


ADC Supervisors Scheme - Information Pack

Please download the Supervisor scheme information pack Here - the pack contains: Scheme info, Manual Precis, Application Forms.



Supervisor List
                                                                                         
           
0001 Anthony Curtis 01/05/00 0002 Kenneth Pape 01/05/00
0003 Peter Hutchison 01/05/00 0004 Andrew Maddison 01/15/00
0005/2 Aiden West 02/05/00 0006 Peter Atkey 03/05/00
0007/2 Micheal W. Jones 02/05/00 0008 James Ross 04/05/00
0009 William Malloy 04/05/00 0010 Richard Filament 04/05/00
0011 Michael Cook 09/05/00 0012/2 Peter Madden 18/05/00
0013/2 John Sparrowe 29/05/00 0014/2 Nigel Thacker 29/05/00
0015 Dean Beer 10/08/00 0016 Chris Jackson 01/11/00
0017 Harry Thomson 01/11/00 0018 Peter Whelan 01/11/00
0019 Gordon Atkinson 01/11/00 0020 Kevin Leadbetter 01/11/00
0021 Philip Brawn 21/12/00 0022 William Gray 21/12/00
0023 Andrew Baillie 21/12/00 0024 Paul Dixon 21/12/00
0025 Nick Vargassoff 21/12/00 0026 Andrew Hollick 21/12/00
0027 Philip Rotchford 21/12/00 0028 Marc Prentice 21/12/00
0029 Andrew Wheatley 21/12/00 0030 Noel Spalding 21/12/00
0031 Trevor Johnson 21/12/00 0032 Murray Whitehouse 21/12/00
0033 Robert Jones 21/12/00 0034 Danny Wright 21/12/00
0035 Peter Currie 21/12/00 0036 Gareth Evans 21/12/00
0037 Carl Huston 11/01/01 0038 Gary Canning 11/01/01
0039 Douglas McElvogue 11/01/01 0040 Peter Ryan 24/01/01
0041 Martin Foster 24/01/01 0042 David Gibb 24/01/01
0043 John Chapman 26/03/01 0044 Philip Baker 26/03/01
0045 Shaun Carr 26/03/01 0046 Stuart Waugh 26/03/01
0047 Martin Shepherd 26/03/01 0048 James Marshall 26/03/01
0049 William Barlow 26/03/01 0050 Paul Dart 07/05/01
0051 Roy Knight 07/05/01 0052 Antony Firth 07/05/01
0053 David Parham 11/05/01 0054 David Geere 16/06/01
0055 Alan Nichols 16/06/01 0056 Peter Semple 16/06/01
0057 John Studd 25/06/01 0058 Charles Dawson 24/27/01
0059 Bill Chilton 22/08/01 0060 Peter Jenner 22/08/01
0061 Neville Cockerham 23/08/01 0062 John Henderson 30/08/01
0063/2 Andrew Armit 03/09/01 0064 Peter Reid 03/09/01
0065/2 Antony Smith 05/09/01 0066/2 Tibor Takacs 05/09/01
0067 Mark Wright 05/09/01 0068/2 Kevin Hood 05/09/01
0069 Sean Cahill 05/09/01 0070 Steve Campbell-Curtis 05/09/01
0071 Chris McMahon 05/09/01 0072 Raymond Stafford 05/09/01
0073 Paul Black 23/09/01 0074 Anthony Hillgrove 23/09/01
0075 Nigel Kitchingham 23/09/01 0076 Mark Hagger 23/09/01
0077 Hugh Wiltshire 23/09/01 0078 Tom Malone 23/09/01
0079 Robert Duffy 23/09/01 0080 Michael Whelan 23/09/01
0081 Allan J. Miller 27/09/01 0082 Billy Campbell 27/09/01
0083 David Burnett 27/09/01 0084 Sandy Gray 31/10/01
0085 Eddie Davies 31/10/01 0086 Gerard McGauley 28/12/01
0087 Staurt Jacques 28/12/01 0088 Darren Clarke 28/12/01
0089 Richard Bird 28/12/01 0090 Susan Syson 25/01/02
0091 Yuk-Pui Chow 05/02/02 0092 Chi Kong Chung 05/02/02
0093 Michael Bower 18/02/02 0094 Gerald Russell 18/02/02
0095 John A. Forbes 18/02/02 0096 Peter Allan 25/02/02
0097 William Evernden 25/02/02 0098 Norman Wallace 25/02/02
0099 Keith Brannlund 25/02/02 0100 Tim Stevens 25/02/02
0101 Jonathan Gardiner 25/02/02 0102 Jon Savage 25/02/02
0103 Stephen Middleton 25/02/02 0104 John Maclarty 25/03/02
0105 Murdock Mackenzie 25/03/02 0106 Bill Elrick 15/04/02
0107 Steve Davis 25/04/02 0108 Richard Harding 25/04/02
0109 Russel Daniels 28/08/02 0110Graham Stewart 28/08/02
0111 Jason Reilly 16/09/02 0112Steven Green 16/09/02
0113 Daniel McIver 08/12/02 0114Peter Hutchinson 08/12/02
0115 William Crossan 25/02/03 0116Liam Griffin 25/02/03
0117 Leslie Barnham 25/02/03 0118Thomas Millar 25/02/03
0119 Donal Wilson 25/02/03 0120Paul Campbel 25/02/03
0121 John Beaton 25/02/03 0122Philip Morphew 25/02/03
0123 Stephen Liscoe 25/02/03 0124David Peart 25/02/03
0125 Stuart Anderson 25/02/03 0126John Mackenzie 25/02/03
0127 Graham Scott 06/03/03 0128Marcus Farce 06/03/03
0129 Denver Wilson 06/03/03 0130Philip Richardson 06/03/03
0131 Alan Spicer 06/03/03 0132Andy Goddard 06/03/03
0133 Robert McFettridge 24/04/03 0134Leon Barker 24/04/03
0135 Vincent Hocking 24/04/03 0136Sue Crellin 24/04/03
0137 George Gradon 24/04/03 0138Larry Yeomans 14/06/03
0139 Alistair Wallbank 24/04/03 0140Barrie Kenyon 14/06/03
0141 Bobby Forbes 16/06/03 0142Mike Kent 17/06/03
0143 Brian Auger 17/06/03 0144Simon Adey-Davies 17/06/03
0145 Stephen Gaynor 17/06/03 0146Duncan Gill 17/06/03
0147 Alistair Heelas 18/09/03 0148David Hord 30/09/03
0149 Bob Kingdom 26/02/04 0150Ian Walters 26/02/04
0151 Derek Williams 26/02/04 0152Joseph Prill 26/02/04
0153 Stuart Swart 26/02/04 0154Andrew Dunne 26/02/04
0155 Eamon Howlin 10/03/04 0156James Napthine 10/03/04
0157 Gary Fogarty 10/03/04 0158Pat Murray 10/03/04
0159 Tim Doyle 10/03/04 0160Russel Shiers 17/03/04
0161 Nick Pearson 17/03/04 0162Douglas Leask 24/03/04
0163 Andrew Stewart 24/03/04 0164Douglas Wright 11/02/05
0165 James Ingham 11/02/05 0166David Johnson 18/03/05
0167 Robert Clarke 21/04/05 0168Vincenzon Esposito 20/05/05
0169 Adrian Blencowe 20/05/05 0170Robert Forrest 20/05/05
0171 Timothy Olson 31/05/05 0172David Thatcher 14/06/05
0173 Malcolm Batters 14/06/05 0174James Jee 14/06/05
0175 Nicholas Clement 15/06/05 0176Peter McLean 12/07/05
0177 Robert Maslin 18/08/05 0178Kevin Garret 18/08/05
0179 Don Shiers 14/09/05 0180Jason Standing 14/09/05
0181 Dean Mills 14/09/05 0182David Walker 14/09/05
0183 Paul Beardall 04/10/05 0184Keith Dunn 09/11/05
0185 Jon Parlour 15/11/05 0186Mark Roissetter 15/11/05
0187 Nick Cunningham 5/12/05 0188Trevor Baronet 5/12/05
0189 Ian Smith 6/12/05 0190 Nick Savage 15/12/05
0191 John Naylor 15/12/05 0192 George Jones 15/12/05
0193 Philip Murray 19/12/05 0194 Stuart Sutcliffe 14/03/06
0195 Stuart Morgan 17/05/06 0196 Steve Dunkerley 17/05/06
0197 Steven Frederick 17/05/06 0198 Steve Manhood 17/05/06
0199 Paul Malpass 13/06/06 0200 James Burns 13/06/06
0201 Andrew Peel 13/06/06 0202 Andrew Bradley 13/06/06
0203 Jonathan Jackson 13/06/06 0204 Terence Kelly 13/06/06
0205 Steve Preston 13/06/06 0206 Michael Wood 13/06/06
0207 Mark Corp 13/06/06 0208 Andy Collins 13/06/06
0209 Allen Fletcher 13/06/06 0210 Jim Lynch 13/06/06
0211 Martin Bowers 13/06/06 0212 Paul Summers 13/06/06
0213 Nicholas Harrginton 13/06/06 0214 Mike Hill 13/06/06
0215 Wayne Pitt 13/06/06 0216 Andrew Snowden 13/06/06
0217 Michael Foster 13/06/06 0218 Stephen Fila 13/06/06
0219 Dean Loomes 13/06/06 0220 Darren Porter 18/07/06
0221 David Moore 02/07/06 0222 Michael Holland02/07/06
0223 Simon Twigger 02/07/06 0224 Murray Buchanan01/09/06
0225 Tony Whiteley 20/09/06 0226 Carl Huston17/05/06
0227 Ian McDonald 04/10/06 0228 Frank Owens04/10/06
0229 Christopher Pugh 22/02/07 0230 Alistair Dunnet22/02/07
0231 Martin Jordan 22/02/07 0232 Andrew Dolman22/02/07
0233 Anthony Brown 09/03/07 0234 James Jones14/05/07
0235 Andrew Allan 14/05/07 0236 Jonathan Fottles12/06/07
0237 Rod Jones 12/06/07 0238 Garry Shore12/06/07
0239 Mark Ord 16/07/07 0240 Luke Ansell14/07/07
0241 Christian Liebenberg 08/08/07 0242 Jason Murphy09/08/07
0243 Michael Moore 06/09/07 0244 Vincent Woolsgrove01/10/07
0245 Kieron Stringwell 04/12/07      
0246 Derek Curtis 25/2/08 0247 Malcolm Thompson 15/4/08
0248 Daniel Wise 15/4/08 0249 Dave Garratt 19/6/08
0250 Chris Hanson 19/6/08 0251 John Williamson 19/6/08
0252 Bryan Waddell 19/6/08 0253 Alistair Macleod 9/7/08
                   
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