Training
The Club’s highly experienced loss prevention team and its external partners share their knowledge with Members through training, webinars, videos and specialist courses. Read more about our expert training.
The Club’s highly experienced loss prevention team and its external partners share their knowledge with Members through training, webinars, videos and specialist courses. Read more about our expert training.
We aim to keep Members up to date with the latest developments and initiatives regarding ship safety from around the world, including regular updates on our own loss prevention activities and initiatives. Find all the latest news here.
21/09/2023
2023 marked the implementation of the much-anticipated Energy Efficiency Existing Ship Index (EEXI) and carbon intensity indicator (CII) regulations that are aimed at optimising ships’ energy efficiency and reducing greenhouse gas emissions
21/09/2023
Global warming is one of the most severe and complex challenges our world faces today
23/08/2023
The global shipping industry is at a crossroads, grappling with the urgent need to reduce carbon emissions by changing to greener fuel options, and ammonia has emerged as a promising candidate for fueling ships in this quest.
The global economy is intricately connected to maritime trade, a crucial means of transporting essential commodities such as ores, food, vehicles, electronics, chemicals and energy
‘Inside Ship’ is a series of animated training videos promoting risk awareness and encouraging risk management practices on board.
Based on real-world experience carrying out risk assessments on Members’ vessels, each video highlights a critical risk area found on board and suggests mitigation techniques for preventing the risks becoming a claim. See all of our Inside Ship videos here.
14/02/2023
The Club is pleased to bring you the latest installment in our 'Inside Ship' video series, focusing on correctly securing fasteners after an overhaul.
26/01/2021
Many engine room fires originate from oil leakages spraying onto hot exhaust surfaces
05/11/2020
The Club is pleased to bring you the second in our "Inside Ship" video series, this time focusing on the action needed on the bridge when steering gear fails
23/09/2020
Risk assessments conducted by the UK Club promote risk awareness and encourage risk management practices on board
‘Lessons Learnt’ is a series of award-winning educational training videos and reports based on common, real-life shipping accidents.
The videos feature incidents involving injury, pollution, cargo claims and navigation errors. Supported by an extensive catalogue of written case studies, the videos identify key lessons learnt to help members avoid similar incidents.
Lessons Learnt won the Lloyds List Europe 2019 Excellence in Safety and Training Award. See testimonials from our Members.
13/04/2023
Incidents during lifting operations show a pattern of repeating events, with the UK Club’s work on Incident Prevention showing that an appalling number of these incidents result in life-changing injuries and tragic loss of life
18/06/2019
This video focuses on a spillage incident that occurred during a poorly planning bunkering operation, with neglect of the company's SMS procedures.
A fully loaded bulk carrier was proceeding at full sea speed on a south westerly course in the Mediterranean Sea in conditions of heavy weather.
21/06/2018
This video features the Death of a Bosun
The Club’s ‘Risk Awareness’ checklists provide an aid to risk and identification and loss prevention in a handy pocket-sized format.
The colour-coded checklists help to build awareness among our Members’ crews and shore-based staff of specific risks and the steps needed to minimise them.
20/05/2020
An aid to risk identification and loss reduction in third party property claims.
An aid to risk identification and loss reduction in cargo claims for crude, product, chemical and gas tankers.
05/05/2020
An aid to risk identification and loss reduction. Use our colour-coded checklist to build your awareness of the risks and the steps needed to minimise them.
An aid to risk identification and loss reduction.
The Club has partnered with Lloyd’s Register to develop a unique and innovative checklist app to help Members’ crews ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and reduce the risk of port state control (PSC) detentions.
The continuously updated checklists cover Maritime Labour Convention requirements, International Safety Management Code and International Ship and Port Facility Security Code requirements, life-saving appliances, marine fire safety, marine pollution prevention and PSC.
Members can get the iOS version of the ‘PSC Pocket Checklists’ app from Apple’s App Store and the Android version from Google Play Store.
The Club’s series of concise ‘Risk Focus’ guides provides an authoritative deep dive on specific shipboard risks.
Often co-authored by leading industry experts, the guides include case studies and high quality photographs and diagrams to help get the message across.
15/03/2021
This Risk Focus examines a number of serious incidents in the engine room that have resulted in significant engine damage and subsequent P&I claims.
10/10/2019
The advent of the 2020 global sulphur cap regulation has been driving marine engine technology towards achieving environmental compliance.
14/03/2019
This Risk Focus is intended to be a practitioner's good practice guide covering all stakeholders throughout the supply chain whether operating, packing, unpacking or handling temperature controlled, 'refrigerated' or 'reefer' cargo transport units (CTUs).
25/02/2019
Burns are bad news wherever they occur, but when they happen at sea, remote from shore medical facilities, the consequences can be grave.
The Club has partnered with leading industry experts and publishers to produce a number of popular loss prevention books and booklets over recent years.
These authoritative titles provide Members with an essential and detailed reference on a variety of topics.
15/03/2023
The Consolidated Edition 2023 of Carefully to Carry has been updated to reflect the most recent regulatory changes, and highlights the most current thinking in the industry and is a compilation of renowned international cargo experts working alongside claims and loss prevention specialists from the UK Club.
27/04/2017
This brochure is designed as both a teaching aid and practicable advice. Written in conjunction with SOLIS Marine Consultants and Richard Hogg Lindley, it contains case studies on recent ro-ro and car carrier casualties with lessons learned and a Loss Prevention quick reference matrix. The publication is designed for use by the Chief Mate, to aid them to prevent/or mitigate a potential claim.
21/04/2017
This booklet has been designed as a ready use tabbed reference book to be used by Ship's crew and office-based operations staff as a training aid and assistance in the event of an incident. Following a review by the Club which identified the top 25 causes of claims in containers. The publication has been written in conjunction with TMC Marine Consultancy, a leading maritime consultancy with surveyors specialising in container stowage as well as Jensen Associates an independent expert consultancy and survey company, specialising in the international trade of perishable products.
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