HE01290 - Extant Resolutions and Circulars relating to emergency preparedness
Lifeboat safety has been a cause for concern for a number of years. In 2007, at a Lifeboat Safety Conference in London, Heike Hoppe from the Maritime Safety Division at the IMO, presented an overview of IMO2019s work on lifeboat safety.
Lifeboat safety has been a cause for concern for a number of years. In 2007, at a Lifeboat Safety Conference in London, Heike Hoppe from the Maritime Safety Division at the IMO, presented an overview of IMO2019s work on lifeboat safety. Annexes 1 to 10 of his paper provide a useful chronology of extant and proposed lifeboat safety Circulars up to the end of May 2007. In an article for Seaways, in 2008 - Lifeboat safety solutions: A unified industry approach - Harry Gale, Technical Manager at The Nautical Institute highlighted a number of concerns about lifeboat safety. Subsequently, the IMO has issued a number of Resolutions and Circulars relating to lifeboat safety.
No matter what material measures are put in place to mitigate the risk of an emergency occurring, all seafarers must be properly trained and regularly drilled in emergency preparedness. The STCW Code is the starting point for emergency training, and the SOLAS Convention for emergency drills and exercises.
This document lists the extant Resolutions and Circulars relating to lifeboat safety and the STCW and SOLAS references to training and drills in emergency preparedness.
See Survivability and Emergency Preparedness 2013 the 3Ps, page 8 Alert! Issue No.37, January 2015.
Keywords: survivability, lifeboats, safety, emergency preparedness
he01290 - Sections of the STCW Code Relevant to Survivability.pdf