Year: 2025 Language: English Author: West of England Genre: Bulletin Edition: April 2025 Format: PDF Quality: eBook Pages count: 20 Description: A vessel’s Safety Management System (SMS) is required to contain “procedures, plans and instructions, including checklists as appropriate, for key shipboard operations concerning the safety of the personnel, ship and protection of the environment. The various tasks should be defined and assigned to qualified personnel”. The SMS will therefore include procedures for entering enclosed spaces. However, in spite of such procedures, incidents resulting in injuries or fatalities continue to occur. This Loss Prevention Bulletin contains guidance for anyone who may be required to enter an enclosed space. However, it is important to note that the information is intended to supplement, but not replace, SMS procedures. Further advice on enclosed space entry may be found in IMO Resolution A.1050(27) “Revised Recommendations for Entering Enclosed Spaces Aboard Ships”.
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Enclosed Space Entry | Loss Prevention Bulletin
Language: English
Author: West of England
Genre: Bulletin
Edition: April 2025
Format: PDF
Quality: eBook
Pages count: 20
Description: A vessel’s Safety Management System (SMS) is required to contain “procedures, plans and instructions, including checklists as
appropriate, for key shipboard operations concerning the safety of the personnel, ship and protection of the environment. The
various tasks should be defined and assigned to qualified personnel”. The SMS will therefore include procedures for entering
enclosed spaces. However, in spite of such procedures, incidents resulting in injuries or fatalities continue to occur.
This Loss Prevention Bulletin contains guidance for anyone who may be required to enter an enclosed space. However, it is
important to note that the information is intended to supplement, but not replace, SMS procedures.
Further advice on enclosed space entry may be found in IMO Resolution A.1050(27) “Revised Recommendations for Entering
Enclosed Spaces Aboard Ships”.
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