Vessel Safety Folder

Welcome to the BETA Safety Folder Site

Under the Merchant Shipping and Fishing Vessels Health and Safety at Work act, employers are required to provide a safe place of work for the Workers aboard their vessel or their business on a vessel. Part of the requirments are for a risk assessment to be completed.

Keeping a Vessel safe is more than Risk Assessment though, and this website is to help you build a safety management folder which will reduce the complexity of the task so that all vessels can benifit from a safer environment. Safety management is not just a folder or a checklist it is the actions you do to keep a vessel and it's crew safe, the folder is the backbone of the system and the crew and skipper the body and the brains

MGN 20 (M+F)

To learn more about your responsability please download and read the M-Notice issued by the Maritime Coastguard Agency which explains your duty under the Health and Safety at work regulations.