The Management of BLUE SEAS SHIPPING S.A. is committed to take all reasonable precautions and measures, during the operation of managed vessels, in order to ensure safety at sea, prevention of human injury or loss of life and avoidance of damage to property.
The Company’s goal is to achieve ZERO accidents through continuous improvement.
To fulfil this goal, the management is committed to the following approach:
This Policy has the full support of Top Management and applies to all Company’s employees.
BLUE SEAS SHIPPING S.A. endeavours to earn the confidence of the ship-owners, charterers, seafarers and the marine industry and be recognized as a high quality, trustworthy and dependable international ship manager. This can only be achieved by providing flawless services that satisfy all relevant requirements. The Company shall always provide professional ship management services to owners and charterers, protect their interests and assets under its care, and fulfil all their expectations.
The Company is committed to always comply with all applicable legal and other requirements that relate to the pertinent hazards and to continually improve the effectiveness of its SMS.
The Company adopts a proactive approach concerning the needs of its clients and is responsive to their requests, suggestions or complaints, always trying to improve the value of its services.
The Company encourages employee teamwork, personal improvement, cooperation, innovative thinking, initiative, leadership, decisiveness and focus on client’s needs and satisfaction.
The Company sets measurable and meaningful HSQE objectives and targets and reviews them when appropriate. In order to objectively assess its performance, the Company:
The SMS defines the methods used to achieve Company’s Policies and the associated objectives and targets. Its implementation ensures that all applicable requirements related to managing the ships of its clients will be satisfied, thus providing the necessary confidence between the Company and its customers.
The Company’s management considers the SMS as the basic tool for providing consistent and effective ship management service and improvement, provides sufficient resources and reviews it regularly to ensure its continuous suitability and effectiveness. The management commits itself in active implementation of the SMS and requires all involved personnel to do the same.
Every suggestion for improvement will be given full attention and will be brought to the highest level of the management.
All Company’s employees, ashore and at sea, are expected to comply with this policy and work towards achieving Company’s objectives. The success of the Company depends on the commitment and involvement of each individual employee.
This policy is continuously reviewed for its continuing suitability as well as in the Management Reviews and is available to the public and the Company’s customers, vendors and suppliers.
BLUE SEAS SHIPPING S.A. is committed through continuous efforts to improve environmental performance in all areas required by the international regulations and laws and Company’s SMS towards a cleaner environment, and to ensure:
The Company’s goal is to achieve ZERO spills through continuous improvement.
For achieving this goal, the Company:
This Policy has the full support of Top Management, is available to the public and applies to all Company’s employees.
BLUE SEAS SHIPPING S.A. holds health and hygiene as first priority in its operations, while its outmost concern is to always ensure that all employees execute their work under safe and hygienic conditions. In order to ensure high standards of health and hygiene, the Company:
The Company’s goal is to achieve the highest standards of health and personal hygiene through continuous improvement.
Information about employees are confidential and should not be revealed to non-medical personnel except at the request of the employee concerned, or when required by law, when dictated by overriding public health considerations, or when necessitated by the Company’s Drug and Alcohol Policy.
This Policy has the full support of Top Management, is available to the public and applies to all Company’s employees.
It is the Company’s Policy that no seafarer, of any rank, will navigate the vessel or will operate its equipment while impaired by drugs or alcohol or where there is any risk of such impairment.
In following Policy, BLUE SEAS SHIPPING S.A.:
- using alcohol or banned substances on board the vessel;
- caught in possession of alcohol or banned substances;
- found to have been instrumental in bringing alcohol or banned substances on board;
- found to have a positive trace in any random testing sample, unless prior notice with authorisation for use, had been given to the Master.
The Company guarantees its commitment on matters of security and declares that all works conducted by its personnel, either ashore or onboard, will be effectively supervised in order to comply with the aims listed hereunder in order of priority:
It is the policy of BLUE SEAS SHIPPING S.A. to provide a secure working environment by establishing and maintaining the required security measures to prevent unlawful acts, which endanger the safety and security of persons and property on board the ship.
Company objectives are to:
These objectives will be achieved by:
All employees and crew members are expected to comply with the required procedures within the SSP and should be familiar with the relevant security duties required of them and the measures required to protect the ship from any unlawful act.
The Company declares that the COMPANY SECURITY OFFICER (CSO) and the SHIP SECURITY OFFICER (SSO) have adequate knowledge, and/or have received training, as required by Part A of the ISPS Code, taking into account the guidance given in Part B of that Code, that shipboard personnel having specific security duties have sufficient knowledge and ability to perform their assigned duties and that all other shipboard personnel will have sufficient knowledge of, and are familiar with, relevant provisions of the SSP.
The Company ensures that the CSO, the Master and the SSO are given the necessary support to fulfill their duties and responsibilities in accordance with SOLAS and the ISPS code.
BLUE SEAS SHIPPING S.A. in order to address cyber security items has published the following Cyber Security Policy. The purpose and objective of this Cyber Security Policy is to protect the company’s information assets from all threats, whether internal or external, deliberate or accidental, to ensure operations continuity, minimize damage and maximize return on investments and relevant industry opportunities.
POLICY
- Information and Systems identified as vulnerable to Cyber-attacks will be protected from a loss of: confidentiality, integrity and availability
- Regulatory and legislative requirements are to be met
- Cyber Security Contingency Plans have been produced for support
- Cyber Security training will be available to all staff
- All breaches of information security, actual or suspected, will be reported to, and investigated by, the Information Security Manager.
- Cooperating Third Parties (service providers, producers etc) to be reviewed regarding their Cyber Security Policy and performance