Safety Management System Guide

Know Your System.
Follow the right process.

Start with your responsibilities, follow the operational safety cycle, or explore the controlled SMS structure. Every route leads to the same authoritative record.

Explore the system

Choose the view that matches your task

Role-led onboarding

What do you do?

Select a role to see its safety duties, recurring checks and the controlled areas it uses most.

One person may hold more than one role. Authority, competence and escalation routes must still be clear.

Required defect reporting

Complete the checks. Log the defects.

SeaRegs SOPs require the applicable pre-course, daily, coded vessel and end-of-course checklists to be completed in Mitti. Any defect identified must be logged and reported; a verbal handover alone is not a complete record.

Before the course

Pre-course checklist

Complete before delivery begins to confirm that the course, vessel, equipment and supporting arrangements are ready.

Each operating day

Daily checklist

Complete the daily check before operation and record any change, issue or defect identified.

When applicable

Coded vessel checklist

Complete the coded vessel check for the vessel being used and confirm that required items remain compliant and available.

After the course

End-of-course checklist

Complete after each course, record the vessel's condition and log every defect requiring action.

Mandatory record

Every defect must be logged on Mitti. If it affects safe operation, make the vessel or equipment safe and escalate it immediately as well.

01

Identify and make safe

Stop, isolate or restrict use where a defect could affect people, the vessel, equipment or safe delivery.

02

Record it on Mitti

Log the defect when it is found. Complete the vessel end-of-course checklist in Mitti after each course.

03

Tell the right person

Notify the Chief Instructor or Resources Manager promptly. The Mitti entry supports escalation; it does not replace it.

04

Track it to closure

Keep the defect open until the repair, test and authorised return-to-service decision have been recorded.

ISM Code alignment

Section 7 supports procedures, instructions and checklists for key operations; section 9 covers reporting and corrective action; section 10 covers inspection, maintenance and defect records; and section 11 covers document and data control.

Use every time

Four habits keep the SMS effective.

01

Plan the work

Confirm the task, people, vessel, equipment, weather and operating limits before starting.

02

Check the controls

Use current procedures, complete the right checks and adapt the risk assessment when conditions change.

03

Report early

Log every defect on Mitti and escalate hazards, near misses and incidents promptly—a verbal handover alone is not enough.

04

Close the loop

Track corrective actions to verified completion and feed lessons back into the SMS.