Under the Merchant Shipping and Fishing Vessels Health and Safety at Work act, employers are required to provide a safe place of work for the crew aboard their vessel or their business on a vessel. Part of the requirements are for a risk assessment to be completed.
Keeping a Vessel safe is more than Risk Assessment though, and this website is to help you build a safety management folder which will reduce the complexity of the task so that all vessels can benefit from a safer environment. Safety management is not just a folder or a checklist it is the actions you do to keep a vessel and it's crew safe.
Since the Health and Safety laws at sea were introduced in 1998 it has been a legal
requirement to produce a Safety Management System for commercial vessels. The system is often described by one of its parts, namely the Risk Assessments, but
actually the Risk Assessment is only a small part of the system. The following parts
are all required within a good management system:
» A Health and Safety Policy Statement
» All Reasonable Risks to be Assessed
» Crew Records
» Life Saving Appliances, Drills and Inductions
» Lifting Equipment and Work Equipment Maintenance Records
» Health Monitoring System
» Vessel Safety Equipment Self Inspections
All these items are to be considered as a whole system, they certainly are not
everything but they form a good starting point to build on. The safety Management
Website helps you to organise this into an organised and practical system.
Example folder completed:
MGN 20 (M+F)
To learn more about your responsibility please download and read the M-Notice issued by the Maritime Coastguard Agency which explains your duty under the Health and Safety at work regulations.Download MGN 20 (M+F)
Training providers in the south of England include Rockall Marine and Seafood Cornwall Training.
