Safety & compliance
What is SMS?Safety Management System
A Safety Management System (SMS) is the set of written policies, procedures, forms and records a yacht and its company use to operate safely and meet the ISM Code.
A typical yacht SMS covers emergency procedures, drills, risk assessments, maintenance, crew familiarisation, reporting of incidents and non-conformities, and how the company reviews and improves the system.
The challenge on many yachts is keeping it alive: forms filled in on time, signatures collected, and evidence easy to find at audit time. Digital SMS tools replace binders with forms the crew complete on board and the office can see straight away.
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