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Book it right and pack it tight - a set of four guidebooks on the workings of the IMDG Code. They are designed to provide busy operational people, who are not experts in the IMDG Code, with a quick reference and practical everyday guidance to the IMDG Code rules. The guidebooks are intended to provide basic safety critical guidance for those engaged in all the stages of preparing dangerous goods for carriage by sea, from booking cargo to packing the cargo transport unit.
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Claims for incidents written off as 'human error' cost the shipping industry $1 million a day. The real costs are higher still - wasted time, lost business, lost jobs, ruined reputations, injury and death. This video features dramatic scenarios to show how to look beyond the 'active failures' - the immediate causes of incidents - to identify the 'latent failures' - the root causes, often overlooked. It helps mariners and shore staff avoid incidents by predicting when and where they will occur.
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This program, the first in a series, is a general introduction to Cargo loss prevention. Other programmes focus on specific trades.
Cargo Matters is a series of video programmes aimed at increasing awareness of the causes of P&I claims for cargo damage and loss. At least seven out of ten cargo claims arise from incidents caused by human error.
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This programme, the second in a series, focuses specifically on the Bulk Carrier trade, identifying some of the most frequent causes of cargo claims and how to avoid them.
Cargo Matters is a series of video programmes aimed at increasing awareness of the causes of P&I claims for cargo damage and loss. At least seven out of ten cargo claims arise from incidents caused by human error.
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This programme, the third in a series, focuses specifically on the tanker trade, identifying some of the most frequent causes of cargo claims and how to avoid them.
Cargo Matters is a series of video programmes aimed at increasing awareness of the causes of P&I claims for cargo damage and loss. At least seven out of ten cargo claims arise from incidents caused by human error.
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This programme, the fourth in a series, focuses specifically on the Container trade, identifying some of the most frequent causes of cargo claims and how to avoid them.
Cargo Matters is a series of video programmes aimed at increasing awareness of the causes of P&I claims for cargo damage and loss. At least seven out of ten cargo claims arise from incidents caused by human error.
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This video aims to increase awareness among masters and crews of the causes of P&I claims for personal injury to crew, stevedores and others. As well as their often tragic consequences, the value of claims is increasing and costs the shipping industry half a billion dollars each year.
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This video aims to increase awareness among masters and crews of the causes of P&I claims for personal injury to passengers, crew and others. As well as their often tragic consequences, the value of claims is increasing and costs the shipping industry half a billion dollars each year.
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This video aims to increase awareness among masters and crews of the causes of P&I claims for personal injury among those working offshore in exploration and production. As well as their often tragic consequences, the value of claims is increasing and costs the shipping industry half a billion dollars each year.
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This video aims to increase awareness among masters and crews of the causes of P&I claims which costs the shipping industry $2 billion each year. The majority of these claims are caused by human error.
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Over 12 million containers are in use worldwide. Despite their reassuring looks, as many as one in every six container journeys result in damage to cargo. The total costs amount to over $5 billion every year.
Many cargo damage claims turn out to be caused, or made worse, by bad packing. This video is intended to help shippers and receivers of containerised cargo. It explains why it is important to pack carefully and the basic principles of good practice.
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Liability claims are costing the shipping industry in excess of US$2,000,000,000 each year. Whether or not these claims can be defended depends almost exclusively on the quality of the evidence.
This video is intended to compliment the book 'The Mariners Role in Collecting Evidence' published by the Nautical Institute. It explains how to collect evidence, what evidence is required and why the evidence is important.
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Ship Visits - The first of the videos produced, highlights the Club's ship quality initiative. It concentrates on the role of the ship inspectors and the inspections they undertake, emphasising common defects observed and good/bad practices.
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Carefully to Carry is the Club's well-known cargo and stowage booklet containing the advice of the Advisory Committee on Cargo Carriage and Stowage and was first issued in 1961. Over the years over 100 articles have been published on cargo and stowage problems in 20 Carefully to Carry booklets. These have covered subjects such as the stowage of containers, fishmeal, calcium hypochlorite, steel, reefer cargoes, vegetable oils and many more.
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The posters are designed to draw your attention to everyday occurrences, as witnessed primarily by the UK P&I Club's own ship inspectors. Some of the photos illustrated under the title "Bad Practice" are not necessarily bad, but when compared to the "Good Practice" photo, it is clear that improvements could and/or should be made. Conversely, some of them can be considered as "Bad Practice" and should clearly be discontinued. The posters are produced in A4 size for convenience and for ease of reproduction.
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The first in the series, this checklist was compiled from analysing deficiences found by port State Control officers on Lloyd's Register Group classed ships. All the deficiences have led to a ship being detained. Owners and operators are advised to use this checklist prior to their ships entering port. This will significantly reduce the likelihood of the ship being detained.
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The Marine Pollution Prevention Pocket Checklist, provides a detailed checklist of areas that must be up to standard, and highlights five areas where operational deficiences are frequently found: oil and oily mixtures from machinery spaces; retention of oil on board; discharge violations; inconsistent oil record book entries; garbage management; and cargo residues.
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The third pocket checklist in the series aims to help owners, operators, and crew comply with international convention requirements, thereby reducing the risk of Port State Control detention. With an alarming number of deaths and injury due to accidents involving lifeboats, this pocket checklist highlights the vital importance of life-saving appliances working properly, and lifeboat drills being conducted safely.
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Loss Prevention Bulletins are published weekly on the website and sent by fax and e-mail to the Members. The Bulletins, which have been published since 1997, aim to tell Members as soon as possible of claims-related events, incidents, decisions and developments which might affect their own ships, voyages and business plans.
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In addition to the Good Practice posters, the Club makes further use of the Ship Inspectors’ knowledge by providing detailed advice in the form of Technical Bulletins.
These bulletins cover topics relevant to P&I claims, in greater detail than the Good Practice posters, with a view to raising awareness as to how claims may arise and can be prevented.
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The UK Club's analysis of major claims has become an industry standard from which not only the Club's Members but also the shipping authorities such as IMO, the marine safety and coastguard agencies and the press draw many of their statistics. Nevertheless, the primary aim of reviewing the collective claims experience of the Club's Members is to provide a base of information from which the Members themselves may apply risk management principles to reduce their exposure to claims.
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During a period of 8 years, the UK P&I Club collected a wealth of data about tanker claims costing individually more than US$100,000. The UK Club's Tanker Risk Profile presents this data in a format which is easy to understand and draws lessons from. The profile is more than a collection of facts and figures; It provides a starting point for tanker operators to build their own risk profile and to plan an effective risk reduction strategy.
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Tanker Matters - Prevention Points, supplements information contained in Tanker Matters, a video in the Cargo Matters series, which itself forms part of the UK P&I Club's loss prevention programme. Prevention Points concentrates on the prevention of claims for shortage and contamination of cargo. Click on the image to download.
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In February 1996, the Club published a report entitled The Human Factor, which serves as a companion publication to the Ship Inspection Report. The document, offering a wide range of information about seafarers, including training, language ability and the management structures within which they work, was collated by the Club's ship inspectors over five years. The report is also available in adobe format (352 Kb).
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The need to tackle this subject has been around for a long time. Soon after the Club's first Major Claims Analysis findings were produced (in 1990), showing that 58% of all major claims resulted from human error, we were faced with the problem that, while the statistic was interesting, what the industry really needed to know was why ... and what to do about it.
This guide is based on the Human Factor workshop conducted around the world by the UK Club and is an informative aid to HSE training.
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This is one of two companion manuals specially prepared for UK Club Members to guide ship operators, managers and ships' officers through the intricacies of the various PSC regimes. This volume serves to highlight and explain the key provisions of the agreements in some detail, whilst the other (shorter) volume sets out the principal features of each agreement in outline form and is suited to shipboard use.
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Good security is teamwork - a responsibility for all onboard, not just a select few, to protect and secure their environment. This supplement illustrates just a few examples of the positive ways in which Members' crews have responded to the need for onboard security and the preventive measures used to tackle this ongoing, ever-evolving problem.
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Over the past two decades there has been a growing appreciation of the many and varied ways that people contribute to accidents in hazardous industries or simply in every day life. Not long ago most of these would have been lumped together under the catch-all label 'human error'. Nowadays it is apparent that this term covers a wide variety of unsafe behaviours, explained in this supplement.
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This supplement to the Loss Prevention News covers accidents involving large fines as well as information on regulations including crew contracts, stowaways and personal injury litigation.
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Like the Club Video 'Container Matters', this pamphlet aims to identify some of the most frequent causes of cargo claims and how to avoid them. It covers damage to container cargo, how containers should be stuffed, the carriage of reefer containers, the carriage of agricultural products, dangerous goods, problems with securing equipment, container crime and container-top safety.
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Focusing on the cruise industry, this Loss Prevention News supplement covers topics such as the crew risk management programme, the US Disability Act and disabled passengers, legal developments in the USA, the Athens Convention, disembarkation procedures, Legionnaires' disease, special cover for cruise ships and the battle against immigration fines.
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While the general condition and operational and maintenance standards of ships entered with the UK P&I Club are getting better, the improvements will have to continue. Club managers believe that rising insurance costs and ever more demanding legislation and regulation mean that the 'quality momentum' is not only desirable but unavoidable.
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The efficient operation of ships requires a high level of management skill and commercial awareness. Written for shipmasters, this major book aims to link the two. Published by the Nautical Institute and sponsored by the UK P&I Club.
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It is much easier to lose money in port. This practical guide is aimed at junior officers. It covers arrival; mooring; safety; taking over the watch; commercial documentation; break bulk operations; bulk carriers; container ships; reefers; tankers; ballast operations; stress and stability; cargo condition and quantity; ship's services; pollution; securing cargo; keeping records and departure. Published by the Nautical Institute and sponsored by the UK P&I Club.
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The essence of commercial shipping is now captured here in The Development of Maritime Commercial Practice. The traditions which ensure optimum performance in the shipping industry has evolved over centuries, but these are in danger of being lost over the horizon, as the industry feels obliged to keep cutting costs. To re-affirm the value of good commercial practices the Nautical Institute has initiated a major project with this introduction by Robert Tallack and the two further guides listed above.
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This publication is directed towards senior managers, including shipmasters, across the spectrum of shipping activities. This book examines techniques and demonstrates how risk management can be applied. The underlying philosophy contained in the text is that managers have a responsibility to identify hazards, carry out risk assessment and control risks.
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These guidelines are designed to assist companies in the development of a safety management system to meet the requirements of the International Safety (ISM) Code. The guidelines should be read in conjunction with the ISM Code, Chapter IX of the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea 1974 (SOLAS), and the Guidelines for the implementation of the ISM Code by Administrations, and are not intended to replace or supersede those documents in any way.
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The purpose of this booklet is to explain, in simple terms, the requirements of international regulations on work hour limits and the likely situation concerning application and enforcement, so that employers can develop procedures to ensure that the ships for which they are responsible are in full compliance.
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With regard to the compliance by companies with the 1995 amendments to the IMO International Convention STCW, the aim of these checklists is to provide ship operators with advice - in as concise a form as possible given the complexity of the requirements - on what needs to be done to expedite compliance, and the issues which every company needs to address.
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The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) has developed this model Ship Security Plan to provide guidance to shipping companies and their Company Security Officers on the content of Ship Security Plans conforming to the requirements of the International Ship & Port Facility Security (ISPS) Code and related SOLAS regulations.
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It is important for the industry to take what preventative measures it can to reduce the possibility of ships being attacked and to limit the consequent risks to seafarers' lives. With this in mind, this guidance has been produced as an aid to masters whose ships may be liable to attack by armed robbers or pirates. It should also be of assistance to shipping companies drawing up their own, more detailed, security plans.
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Marine professionals the world over crave news from home while they are at sea. To fulfil this need, NewsLink, a daily electronic newspaper targeted specifically at seafarers, was launched in 1997, starting out as a basic compilation of important news. Today, NewsLink has comprehensive coverage of regional and international news from around the world, sports, world and local politics, marine-related news and lots more. Additionally, the CD is packed with games, crosswords and word jumbles that keep the crew entertained.
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