Oil Tanker & Offshore Units Vetting, SIRE Audit & Inspection

Introduction

The Oil Tanker & Offshore Units Vetting, Sire Audit & Inspection Training course focuses on developing the process of vetting and tanker inspections.

This technical training course helps the ships owners and operators to stand on their tanker’s compatibilities with the IMO conventions and codes, this will facilitate the certification process and the compliance with SIRE, ISM, ISGOTT, OCIMF & IMO requirements. The tanker charterers shall ask for the tanker vetting and inspection reports to compare similar vessels and choose the best according to their needs to maximize efficiency. The Oil & Gas Cargo Traders would search for the most fit and applicable tanker ships to load their cargoes with various types of products and transport these products from one port to another.

This training course syllabus is focusing on the vetting / inspection of the condition of the Tanker Hull, Engine, Machinery & Cargo compartments sizes, & equipment special arrangements and features are a very vital parameters that would be the main subject on defining the freight rate.

The Oil Tanker & Offshore Units Vetting, Sire Audit & Inspection training course will emphasize insurance value of the tanker that to be defined based on the tanker age and condition that clearly declared with the vetting / inspection report. 

The GLOMACS training course focuses on:

• Background and business drivers for vetting
• Vessel systems overview
• Vessel screening process
• SIRE  2.0 Inspection Process
• Arrangement and preparation for onboard inspection
• Observations and findings, Root Cause Analysis
• Operator's comments
• TMSA 3rd Edition 13 Elements & Human Factor

Objectives

This training course is aimed at developing an appreciation of the key practical issues for anyone involved with vetting and tanker inspections process.

The main objective of this training course is to guide marine professionals to be able to:

• Overview of SOLAS, ISM, MARPOL, STCW, MLC, ISPS and ISGOTT Conventions, Guidelines & Codes requirements
• Gain an up to date knowledge about the vetting of tankers process
• Understand the international standards and practices that related to tanker fitness and operations to ensure her suitability for safe and secure transporting goods from a port to other
• Practice The skills to select the best tanker that complies with the international and organization requirements
• Practice Sufficient experience to conduct internal and external audits to maintain the best quality standards at all times
• Manage spot chartering and vetting process
• Understand vetting and risk management
• Learn the operating principles of SIRE inspections, & how to deal with SIRE inspectors and reports
• Identify the Knowledge of the key issues of OCIMF requirements
• Learn how to perform an ISPS audit
• Recognize the Experience of maintaining the tanker hull & machinery in a proper manner to maximize the life of the vessel
• Discuss the information’s required to build the best practiced safety management system (SMS) that required to maintain the compliance with the ISM code
• Organize better risk and safety assessment and management, eliminating loss of life, property or cargo and pollution of the marine environment

Training Methodology

A highly interactive combination of lectures and discussion sessions as well as case studies will be managed to maximize the amount and quality of information, knowledge, and experience transfer. The training course will be intensive but practical and highly interactive. The sessions will start by raising the most relevant questions and motivating everybody to find the right answers. The attendants will also be encouraged to raise more of their questions and to share developing the right answers using their analysis and experience. The training course material through PowerPoint equipped with necessary animation, learning videos, and general discussions will be provided.

Organisational Impact

Organisations that will send their employees to this training course will have:

• The advantage of having onboard a highly qualified group of employees with superior training and advanced experience in Tanker Vetting Process
• Certain vessel compliance to classification & certification requirements
• Better understanding of vessel’s management & maintenance in line with international standards
• Internal audits application and reviews to enhance the standards of performance, quality and maintenance onboard vessels
• Better record-keeping and maintenance, which help decision making and provide reference in subsequent audits & Better risk and safety assessment and management
• Assurance to eliminate loss of life, property or cargo, and pollution of the marine environment
• Increased investments as a result of increased credibility

Personal Impact

Professionals attending this training course will have:

• Promising career growth and progression
• Experience and knowledge to undertake reviews and compliance audits to meet the organisation & international standards
• Enhanced skills set to undertake training and strategic roles,
• Increased credibility and employer branding and safeguarding human life, property and the marine environment