Safety Management System Training

Safety Management System Awareness & Responsibilities 
for Company, Master and Crews


Pre-requisites: None
Minimum Age: 17
Duration: 1 Day
Certification: Course Completion Certificate

This course can also be delivered:

  • Online 

  • On your company premises, tailored to your SMS

Resources are provided as part of the course fee in either paper or electronic format.

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A course to ensure Company, DP, Masters and crews know their respective responsibilities and a knowledge of Safety Management System. 

This course has been designed to assist companies and Seafarers to know their respective roles and responsibilities at sea and ashore.
It is aimed at the requirements of:

  • Code vessels – Workboat and Sport and Pleasure Codes

  • Class IV V and VI passenger vessels

  • Class IX(A) non passenger vessels

  • Large yachts under 500GT

Course Content:

In-depth review of Safety Management Systems, Safety Culture, Company DP and Masters responsibilities, Masters responsibilities onboard with regard to:

  • Regulation onboard

  • Distress

  • Safe navigation

  • Incidents

  • Safe working

  • Seafarers responsibilities

  • Requirements under code

  • Powers of regulators

Maritime Designated Person


Pre-requisites: Tertiary qualification in management, engineering or physical science, or qualification as a certified ship officer or other formal education 
Minimum Age: 17
Duration: 3 Days
Certification: Nautical Institute

This course can also be delivered on company premises.
Please ask for further details.

To introduce the concepts of the responsibilities for a Designated Person within a safety management system. It covers requirements from the International safety Management Code, Domestic Safety Management, Code vessel and Class vesse requirements: knowledge and understanding of the ISM/DSM Code; mandatory rules and regulations; applicable codes, guidelines and standards; assessment techniques of examining, questioning, evaluating and reporting; technical or operational aspects of safety management; knowledge of shipping and shipboard operations; participation in a Management System Audit; effective communications with shipboard staff and senior management. 

Maritime Lead Auditor 

Pre-requisites:

  • Tertiary qualification in management, engineering or physical science, or qualification as a certified ship officer or other formal education

  • Designated Persons Course or similar

Minimum Age: 17
Duration: 2 Days
Certification: Nautical Institute

This course can also be delivered on company premises.
Please ask for further details.

 

To introduce the concepts of the requirement of internal and external audit of safety management systems in the maritime industry. It covers requirements from the International Safety Management Code and Domestic Safety Management, and includes: auditing techniques and processes plus the management of an auditing program. 

Learning Objectives:

  1. Understand the Audit Process

  2. Reporting the Audit

  3. Recognising Observations, Non-Conformities, Major Non-Conformities

  4. Recommending Corrective Action

  5. Follow-up Audits & Close-out

To develop the course we have followed the elements within:

  • Functional requirements of the ISM and DSM codes

  • MSC-MEPC.7/Circ.8 Revised guidelines for the operational implementation by companies 

  • Resolution A1118.(30) Revised guidelines on the implementation by Administration.

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