The Oil Firms Worldwide Marine Discussion board (OCIMF) is overhauling its Ship Inspection Report Programme (SIRE) by introducing tablet-based inspections, a extra complete inspection course of and enhanced insurance policies and procedures from Q2 2022
Sam Megwa is OCIMF’s programme director. (Picture supply: OCIMF)
The brand new programme, SIRE 2.0, will facilitate a risk-based strategy to assessing the protection and high quality of a vessel and its crew on an ongoing foundation, however would require a “change in mindset” from business, OCIMF has warned.
Below SIRE 2.0, accredited inspectors will full a Compiled Vessel Inspection Questionnaire (CVIC) in real-time utilizing a pill machine. In contrast to the prevailing paper-based questionnaire, the SIRE 2.0 CVIQ makes use of a complicated algorithm to pick questions from a query library based mostly on the kind of vessel, its outfitting and operational historical past to create a bespoke risk-based inspection questionnaire.
This implies no two inspections would be the similar. In one other vital change to the reporting course of, most questions require the inspector to offer responses based mostly on {hardware}, processes and human components, with observations graded from not as anticipated by way of to exceeds expectation.
On account of these enhancements to the programme every inspection query set is assorted, offering vessel operators and crews higher alternative to exhibit their finest practices, and for the primary time each constructive and detrimental observations will be documented. Enhanced governance processes will guarantee higher transparency and management for OCIMF and different events concerned within the programme, with stringent compliance necessities enhancing accountability, creating an altogether extra sturdy and programme that may extra simply be tailored to the evolving threat profile of the business.
OCIMF’s managing director Karen Davis, defined, “The event and introduction of the SIRE 2.0 tanker inspection regime represents a big change for OCIMF, its members, customers of the inspection programme and the marine business as an entire. It’s a transfer away from a snapshot sure/no strategy to offering richer, extra significant perception that may be acted upon.
“The brand new programme will guarantee observations are given context and can lead to extra detailed, dependable, granular and comparable marine assurance knowledge, serving to the report recipient higher perceive how nicely a vessel is managed,” Davis added.
