View the September news bulletin in full:
(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 21 minutes) and Commercial Ship Surveyors (run time 33 minutes).
Three little, but often misunderstood words – safety management system, or SMS for short – have been everywhere in the maritime news recently. Yes, SMS seems to be the current buzz phrase of the day! I have seen an alarming increase in incident and accident reporting referencing SMS failures and non-adherence as the primary cause.
So, what’s going wrong? Why is the SMS being overlooked or, worst of all, simply ignored? This is the central theme of my column this month.