Yacht Occupational Health and Safety Evaluation

Shipboard Occupational Health and Safety Evaluation

The yacht industry is a unique work environment.  Fun and fabulous but also frenetic with no work decompression space.  This course is your essential springboard to a successful career in yachting, offering the insights and know-how needed to be savvy and prepared for your life working aboard.

Tools that may help with programme evaluation include:

• .1 trend analysis of fatality, injury, illness and “near miss” incident statistics;
• .2 trend analysis of records of “unsafe acts or behaviours”;
• .3 review of vessel safety committee reports and recommendations; and
• .4 review of hazardous condition notifications and abatement actions.

  2 Performance measures that may assist in programme evaluation include:

• .1 lost time incident rate;
• .2 fatality rate;
• .3 acute toxic exposure incidents per 1,000 employee work hours;
• .4 number of non-conformities with standard operating procedures per 100 employee work hours;
• .5 percentage of training required by SOHSP completed on schedule;
• .6 percentage of annual respiratory fit testing completed on schedule; and
• .7 percentage of annual medical monitoring exams completed on schedule.

  3 The following audit tool may be used to evaluate a SOHSP. The elements scored in the audit tool are the first seven elements of a SOHSP. Some elements are further divided into factors that are individually scored. The auditor should objectively score the vessel’s SOHSP on each of the individual factors and elements after obtaining the necessary information to do so.

calculate the overall score, after scoring each element, as follows:

• • .1 the score for the Management Commitment and Leadership Element is the lower of the two scores of the General and Implementation Factors;
  • .2 the score for the Employee Participation Element is the lower of the two scores for the General and Hazard Reporting Factors;
  • .3 the score for the Hazard Anticipation, Identification, Evaluation and Control Element is the average of all six Factors; and
  • .4 the scores for single-Factor Elements are the scores for the Factor;
• .2 the overall score is the average score of the seven Element scores and may be assigned a “verbal” description based upon the score.