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Ship Oil Pollution Emergency Plan (SOPEP)

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  What is Ship Oil Pollution Emergency Plan (SOPEP)? If you are a maritime professional working on ships, SOPEP locker (room) is one of the important places which you would be asked to familiarise with in the first few days of joining a ship. Let’s understand the importance of knowing SOPEP- Ship Oil Pollution Emergency Plan for a maritime professional. Related reading:   Procedure for ship familiarisation for new crew members on ship When an oil spill occurs at sea, it tends to spread over the surface of the sea water, leaving a deadly impact on marine mammals, birds, the shoreline, and most importantly the ocean and the environment. The cost to clean up an  oil spill  depends on the quantity and quality of oil discharged in the sea and is calculated on the basis of factors such as legal claims, money paid as penalties, loss of oil, repairs and cleanups, and the most important – loss of marine life and the effects on human health which cannot be measured against any amount. Related re
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Work aloft and overboard

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Guidelines on Working aloft or Overside on Ships Cult of Sea - Maritime Knowledge base Definition Working aloft or Overside  means a work being performed at a height and involving risk of falling, resulting in an injury. Guidelines As a general rule, personnel should not be permitted to work overside when the vessel is underway unless it is absolutely necessary and as determined by the Master. 1.       Personnel under training shall not be assigned aloft or over side related jobs. 2.      The power source to potential hazards such as ships whistle, radar, etc. should be isolated from their power source and accidental activation prevented by the use of warning signs and / or removal of fuses. 3.      The area below the workspace should be, as far as possible cordoned off to prevent injury to passerby due to falling debris / accidental dropping of objects. 4.      Equipment to be used by the personnel working aloft or over side should be securely housed in tool belts /
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Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)

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10 Main Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Used Onboard Ship Safety of self and co-workers is the prime priority kept in mind by a professional seafarer while working onboard ship. All shipping companies ensure that their crew follow personal safety procedures and rules for all the operation carried onboard ships. To achieve utmost safety on board ship, the basic step is to make sure that everybody wears their personal protective equipment made for different types of jobs carried out on ship. သင်္ဘောပေါ်တွင် အလုပ်လုပ်နေစဉ် ကျွမ်းကျင်သော သင်္ဘောသားတစ်ဦးမှ သတိထားရမည့် အဓိကဦးစားပေးမှာ မိမိကိုယ်ကိုနှင့် လုပ်ဖော်ကိုင်ဖက်များ၏ ဘေးကင်းရေးဖြစ်သည်။ သင်္ဘောကုမ္ပဏီများအားလုံးသည် ၎င်းတို့၏သင်္ဘောသားများအား သင်္ဘောပေါ်တွင်တင်ဆောင်သည့် လုပ်ငန်းအားလုံးအတွက် တစ်ကိုယ်ရေဘေးကင်းရေးလုပ်ထုံးလုပ်နည်းများနှင့် စည်းကမ်းများကို လိုက်နာကြောင်း သေချာစေပါသည်။ သင်္ဘောပေါ်တွင် လုံခြုံစိတ်ချရမှုအရှိဆုံးရရှိရန် အခြေခံအဆင့်မှာ သင်္ဘောပေါ်တွင်လုပ်ဆောင်သည့် အလုပ်အမျိုးအစားအမျိုးမျိုးအတွက် လူတိုင်းလူတိုင်း မိမိတို
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Shipboard Organization

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  Shipboard Organization A shipboard organization is similar to the government structure we have in our countries. Vessels have worlds of their own. They are like mini kingdoms having a very small population with each person holding specific duties. The duties vary depending on the crew’s rank. 20 strong men run a normal seagoing merchant vessel on average. They are divided into three departments namely Deck, Engine, and Catering. These departments have various tasks during drills, emergencies, and  security duties . Knowing the importance of a shipboard organizational plan gives you an overview of the way a vessel functions.   Shipboard Organizational Chart To better understand how the chain of command flows on board, one must look at the vessel’s organizational chart. This chart shows various departments running the ship including their department heads. Each of the crew functions based on the ranks outlined in their job description. The shipboard organization makes it
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