RightShip announced a new program for the dry bulk sector which aims to ensure the highest levels of safety, security and environmental excellence. The new Dry Bulk Management Standard (DBMS) aims to support the improvement of safety and risk management standards within dry bulk ship management and help drive collaboration, conversation and increased standards in the sector.
DBMS Key Objectives
The voluntary programme is designed to allow ship managers to measure their Safety Management System (SMS) against agreed industry standards, with the aim of improving fleet performance and risk management. This will ensure an operator’s policies align with industry best practice to both advance their performance and attain high standards of health, safety, security and pollution prevention.
DBMS will:
- Provide expectations and targets against which companies can assess their own safety management systems.
- Benchmark a company’s management system against four key levels: basic, intermediate, advanced and excellence.
- Allow the creation of self-assessment results that can be used to develop phased plans to support continuous improvement of ship management systems.
- Encourage companies to regularly review their self-assessment results against DBMS expectations and to create achievable plans for improvement.
Focus Areas
The draft guidelines focus on 30 areas of management practice across the four most serious risk areas faced in vessel operations; performance, people, plant and process. The DBMS will grade the excellence of a company’s SMS against measurable expectations and targets without involving the burdens of excessive inspections.
Namely, the tool consists of a draft self-assessment questionnaire for review by the industry to gather feedback and opportunities for improvement, as already explained, with the vision to launch a revised standard next year and to incorporate a dashboard. The dashboard will show how a company's self-assessment compares to other companies on a range of statistics that have been identified as indicators of good management.
The staff involved in self-assessing each area have a very importance role as they should identify and gather evidence in relation to the expectation and target for each stage. Some sources of evidence are: last self-assessment report, external audits of the company, internal audits and feedback from stakeholders.
The standard describes the scoring methodology and cites the PDCS cycle as a way of implementing continual improvement within companies' activities
Levels of DBMS Standard
Within each subject area, the standard provides expectations and associated targets at four levels, as shown on the graph below. In particular, each level describes the comprehensiveness of a company's management system in relation to the subject area. The expectation and associate targets can be used by a company to self-access their systems and processes.
It is worth mentioning that the DBMS won’t be a replacement for the ISM Code but it will build upon industry standards and provide a systematic approach to encourage ship managers to move from minimum compliance to operational excellence.
Additionally, DBMS will allow ship managers to stand out from the crowd, whilst also enabling them to pinpoint the most effective management upgrades required across their fleet, saving time and money.
Pls click on the following link https://drybulkmanagementstandard.org/dbms-explained-the-why-what-and-how-of-our-new-standards-for-dry-bulk-shipping/ for more comprehensive information and guidelines.
New upgraded Platform
Qi will be replaced and upgraded to the new RightShip platform on 30th September 2020.
How the new platform will help us do business:
- All services will be available in one easy-to-use digital portal, accessible through desktop, mobile and tablet
- The new platform will provide greater transparency to Rightship services such as vet requests and status updates, plus new ways to communicate with their experts and other industry stakeholders
- It provides increased stability and versatility to support us in our business endeavours.
What this means for shipowners, operators and managers:
- We’ll receive real time notifications from RightShip superintendents. These notifications will include clear instructions outlining our next steps and allow us to upload required information directly into the platform
- The platform clearly displays the additional energy saving equipment added to our vessel and GHG Rating verifications undertaken
- It highlights an active RightShip inspection and indicates when we have closed out safety incidents
This new digital RightShip has been designed and built with input from a wide array of users, to be a leading communications platform between all stakeholders in the industry.
Fyi: https://comingsoon.rightship.com/