RULES FOR CERTIFICATION OF TRAINING PROVIDERS OF SERVICE PERSONNEL FOR LIFE-SAVING APPLIANCES PUBLISHED BY RINA
Classification Society RINA has published the Rules for the Certification of Training Providers in accordance with ISO/DIS 23678 Standard on Service Personnel for Life Saving Appliances. The document became effective from 15th April 2023. These Rules set out the procedures:
a) to verify that the Training & Competency Management (TCM) system of a Training Provider responsible for the training of “Service personnel for the maintenance, thorough examination, operational testing, overhaul and repair of lifeboats (including free-fall lifeboats) and rescue boats (including fast rescue boats), launching appliances and release gear” is in compliance with the International Standard ISO/DIS 23678, Parts 1 to 4, hereinafter named the “ISO Standard” as per [2.7];
b) to issue a Training & Competency Management Certificate (TCMC) to the Training Provider enabling it to issue the Training & Competency Qualification Certificates (TCQC) to its students in accordance with the ISO Standard; and
c) to carry out the periodical verifications of compliance with the requirements of these Rules.
RINA reserves the right to carry out additional verifications as deemed necessary in pursuance of its internal Quality System or as required by external organizations.
INDUSTRY BODIES UNITE TO PRODUCE GUIDELINES FOR SAFE TRANSPORT OF LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES IN CONTAINERS
The Lithium-ion Batteries in Containers Guidelines seek to prevent the increasing risks that the transport of lithium- ion batteries by sea creates, providing suggestions for identifying such risks and thereby helping to ensure a safer supply chain in the future. Together with its partners, the Cargo Incident Notification System Network (CINS) has compiled a comprehensive publication covering the properties of these batteries and their potential to explode, initiate fires and emit toxic gases.
Extensive measures to safely transport what is an exponentially increasing volume of lithium-ion batteries, in their various states or charge and when also contained in electronic devices are fully examined including, classification and regulation, container packing, landside storage, stowage onboard ships, incident detection and fire suppression, and loss prevention and risk mitigation.
“We strongly urge all stakeholders in the production, supply, transport, handling and sale of lithium-ion batteries whether as individual components or integrated into an electronic device, vehicle or other product to recognise their responsibilities in maximising safety when in transit,” comments Dirk Van de Velde, who is Deputy Chair of CINS and a board member of the association of cargo handlers, ICHCA.
“As our experience of transporting lithium-ion batteries widens and the technology surrounding their chemical composition, production and application rapidly evolves, risk controls and loss prevention measures need to keep pace. The work encapsulated in these Guidelines will, of necessity, continue and be undertaken in collaboration with all relevant stakeholders to increase our knowledge and understanding of the risks posed by carriage of lithium – ion batteries in containers by sea.
Peregrine Storrs-Fox, Risk Management Director at freight transport insurer TT Club concludes, “As the pressure on all forms of economic activity for decarbonisation increases, the use of these batteries will inevitably escalate at rates we have previously not experienced. Air transport has been heavily restricted already and it is clear that surface modes will be called upon to transport these goods. As an adaptable unit, the container will remain a focal point for safe transport, including for EVs alongside other vehicle carriers.”
Download the guidelines at
https://bit.ly/3nHQoyt. Or scan the QR code.
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