View the March news bulletin in full: IIMS News Bulletin March 2026 (pdf format) or click to read it in eReader magazine format.
Two ‘lite’ podcast versions are also available to listen to. Yacht & Small Craft Surveyors (run time 19 minutes) and Commercial Ship Surveyors (run time 26 minutes).
This month, I want to address the matter of recurring safety issues in our industry, and I pose the simple question, to which there is no easy answer: “What are the barriers to progress?” Of course, I don’t have the answers, but as a joined-up, interconnected industry, perhaps we could do as we seek to make incisive inroads into ship, crew, and vessel safety. Over the years, the realisation of enhanced safety training and mechanisms has grown and is now accepted as the norm, as has their implementation, but still, we see the same old type of incidents and accidents recurring. So, do we have an issue with the safety culture, and why are we not learning from history and the past? Nobody should go to work and not return at the end of the day.