The main responsibility of Anthony Veder's Safety, Health, Environment and Quality (SHEQ) department is the safety and well-being of the crew but also all the other stakeholders involved, including the cargo owner, the shipowner and the environment.
In practice this means that our SHEQ department is heavily involved in inspection and auditing procedures. The Anthony Veder SHEQ team carries out internal audits and ship riding inspections. This usually involves sailing for 3-6 days on a ship for a safety meeting and full audit, as well as the team offering training and education on board.
When it comes to third-party inspections, Anthony Veder visits some 40% of the oil major's inspections on board. Although, a Total inspector recently indicated that he sees a shore representative at around 90% of inspections. Fundamentally, we always try to educate our staff to enable them to do an inspection themselves, at any time.
The SHEQ department also handles any incident investigations and examines them. SHEQ responds to all Port State, SIRE and CDI inspections, looking for the causes, creating corrective actions and crucially, focusing on preventive actions.
We work with customers on these non-commercial issues, such as vetting status, incidents KPI, trending, as well as talking to customers about their future plans and goals.
As well as this, the team conducts occupational health and safety risk assessments. They continually look at on board procedures, any improvements to be made and the management of change.
Their work also entails setting goals and maintaining schedules for TMSA2 and for the office, internal audits and plans for improvement for ISM and ISO9001. Anthony Veder's ISO 14000 certification is scheduled end-2010, after completion of our two-year environmental focus plan.
Quarterly fleet reports, management reviews and managing legislative changes also come under the SHEQ team's responsibility.
Training during officers' seminars in Indonesia, the Ukraine and The Netherlands is another important part of its work. And the SHEQ team offers student counselling, with continuous guidance for projects at several nautical institutes. Logistic studies, resent projects: ice passport, TMSA2 and logistic calculation tool projects are some of those we are involved in.
Our SHEQ experts can also be seen guest lecturing at different nautical and logistics-related educational institutes on subjects such as maintenance and gas transportation.
SHEQ, which is also involved in the Dutch Royal Association of Shipowners, additionally, offers advice to different departments within and outside of the company.
