Quality & HSE
How the work is controlled
Permits, procedures, testing and records — described as they are actually applied, with no certification claimed that is not yet held.
Ship repair injures people in a small number of well-understood ways: hot work in a space that was not gas-free, entry into a compartment that was not tested, staging that was not inspected, and a lifting operation nobody planned. Every one of them is procedural, and every one of them is preventable by a crew that follows the permit rather than the schedule.
Corvaden works under the permit system of the vessel or the attending yard rather than running a parallel one. The Master or the yard safety officer keeps control; Corvaden’s foreman is accountable for the crew complying with it, and for stopping when it is not satisfied.
Stop-work authority sits with every member of the crew and is stated at the toolbox talk. A crew that has been told to raise concerns and then watched a foreman override one will not raise the next.
Controls
Before work starts
- Risk assessment written for the specific job, not a generic template
- Method statement agreed with the vessel and the owner
- Permit to work raised under the vessel or yard system
- Toolbox talk with the full crew, recorded
- Competence and qualification records available on request
Hot work
- Gas-free certification before any hot work
- Continuous atmosphere monitoring in enclosed spaces
- Fire watch posted and maintained after work stops
- Adjacent compartments checked and secured
Enclosed spaces
- Entry permit and atmosphere testing before entry
- Attendant posted at the access at all times
- Rescue arrangements in place before the first entry
- Ventilation maintained for the duration of the work
On the job
- Personal protective equipment appropriate to the task, without exception
- Staging and access inspected before use
- Stop-work authority held by every member of the crew
- Incidents and near-misses reported and recorded
Quality control
- Welding to approved procedure specifications
- Non-destructive testing to the agreed scope
- Hydrostatic and air testing of renewed boundaries
- Dimensional and thickness verification recorded as work proceeds
Records
- Material certificates retained and handed over
- Welding records against the procedure used
- Test and inspection reports
- As-found and as-repaired photographic record
Vetting and audit
Owners and managers who need to audit a contractor before award are expected to, and are accommodated. Procedures, risk assessment templates, competence records and equipment certification are made available for review on request.
Where a vessel operates under a charterer or terminal regime with specific contractor requirements, send them with the enquiry. It is cheaper for everyone to establish at the quotation stage that a requirement cannot be met than to establish it at the gangway.
Response in 6 hours. Mobilisation in 48 hours.
Send the repair specification, the class report and photographs with the first enquiry. Scope confirmed against documents is scope that does not change on arrival.