‘PSC Ready’ assists ship managers and their crews in planning and ensuring readiness for port state control inspections. ‘PSC Ready’ is a cloud-based and secure application, downloadable for both IOS and Android.
The app is to help ship owners focus on all the requirements needed to be ready for PSC inspections. The benefits of ‘PSC Ready’ include:
- Helping ensure compliance with applicable requirements
- Enhancing ship maintenance by developing crews’ awareness of safety, environmental and employment requirements as well as those for ship structures and equipment
- The opportunity to improve PSC performance worldwide
- Training crews to detect, correct and avoid deficiencies
- Access to statistics, data and news on PSC developments
- ‘Check offline, report online’ functionality recognizing that data connections cannot always be available on-board
Managing Port State Control Requirements
Through the app, PSC awareness can be shared across a company’s fleet. Records and performance can also be shared and analysed with management and clients. The app also offers access to the latest information about PSC areas of focus and interpretation.
Laurent Leblanc, Vice President and Marine Operations Director, Bureau Veritas said: ‘We wanted to ensure that ship owners and their crews know what Port State Inspections require and to help them manage those requirements – all with a practical, digital, tool. This application provides the most up-to-date route to manage PSC planning and performance, enabling data and best practice to be shared on-board and across fleets.’
‘PSC Ready’ was developed and refined in pilot projects with ship owners world-wide. It is now available for download at Google Play and Apple’s Apps Store.
Picture: New Bureau Veritas App, PSC Ready, helps ship managers and crews prepare for Port State Control inspections.
