Leadership
Leadership is a key driver that contributes to safety onboard. It needs to apply to each and every individual, regardless of their rank, across the ship. Choose and modify the resources below that work for your company.
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Key Behaviours
Key Behaviours
Create a Vision
Create a Vision
Stay Accountable
Stay Accountable
Leadership Resources
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Golden Safety Rules
Within scope is a set of rules that everybody in the Shipping Industry will understand, commit to, introduce and follow. Most of the rules are not new and for most, will be well known, and capture the key behaviours of strong safety leadership.
Learner Mindset and Safe to Speak Up
Learner Mindset and Safe to Speak up touches on the importance of displaying a Learner Mindset at work and contrasting that with a Fixed mindset. It shows the importance of creating an environment where colleagues can speak up and feel safe to make mistakes, but learn from them.
Incident prevention
View allGuidelines for the management of distraction causing devices on board ships
The document provides voluntary guidelines for shipping companies to manage the risks associated with distractions from electronic devices on ships. It outlines a framework for identifying hazards, assessing risks, and implementing controls to minimize distractions, particularly for key personnel in
Lifesaving appliance pocket checklist (Apple)
This is Lloyd's Register's Port State Control app, designed to streamline ship inspections and compliance processes. Created by the world's oldest marine classification society (established over 260 years ago), the app helps ship owners and crew manage port state inspections more efficiently.
Risk focus: moornings
This document from the UK P&I Club focuses on mooring safety risks and inspection findings across 373 ships. While the physical mooring equipment (winches, ropes, etc.) was generally found to be in good condition, the report highlights significant concerns about operational practices and procedures.
Lifesaving appliance pocket checklist (Google Play store)
This is Lloyd's Register's Port State Control app, designed to streamline ship inspections and compliance processes. Created by the world's oldest marine classification society (established over 260 years ago), the app helps ship owners and crew manage port state inspections more efficiently by ensu
UK P&I Club Carefully to Carry General Container Operations
The document is a section from a maritime shipping manual focused on container operations and waste shipments. It provides detailed guidance on how to properly load, stack, and secure cargo in shipping containers, with specific emphasis on waste transport regulations.
Golden Safety Rules 2024
The Golden Safety Rules have been selected following a detailed review of fatal incident reports across all sectors of the shipping industry. They comprise activities that are most likely to lead to fatalities and serious injury, and focus on the areas that an individual has control over.
Wellbeing & Care
View allFatigue guidelines: managing and reducing the risk of fatigue at sea
Simple information for companies & operators on the causes, consequences and management of fatigue. Primarily aimed at managers /operators of Australian regulated vessels but can be applied by all.
Best Practices Guide on Prevention of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment in The US Merchant Marine
Guidance on seafarers’ responsibility to be respectful and actively participate in a work environment free of sexual assault, harassment and other prohibited behaviours.
A Standard for Seafarers’ Mental Health Awareness and Wellbeing
Training Developed from the Mental Health First Aid approach, the standard contains suggested criteria for the development of a training course concentrated on seafarers’ mental health and wellbeing (paid resource).
Mentally healthy ships: policy and practice to promote mental health onboard
Useful information for companies & operators on how best to devise and implement mental health policies and practices that promote and protect positive mental health shore-side and on-board.