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Click here to view the presentation on the brief outcomes of the event; Presentation Safe Access   For more information, or to inform us of  your interest to participate in raising Safety of Access to Workboats in Port contact us here

Maritime Safety Week This week is the 2nd annual Maritime Safety Week (1st – 5th July 2019) The campaign instigated by the UK DfT in 2018 received fantastic response in its inaugural year. Objectives for the week are: •       to recognise and highlight all the excellent safety work that already goes on across […]

Did you know that a week ago today – Mark Ranson was celebrating becoming the European Maritime Professional of the year?! The European Commercial Marine Awards (ECMAs) winners were announced during a packed ceremony held at the Golden Arrow Marine Restaurant on site at Seawork on the evening of Tuesday 11th June. The Maritime Professional […]

Join us from 11th to 13th June to celebrate the launch of our ‘Crew Transfer Vessel Good Practice Guide revision 2′.   Visit the NWA on stand PB128 to register for your copy of the newly revised CTV GPG, all registrations for the guide at Seawork will be automatically entered into our celebratory ‘Launch Competition’ with […]

Jacqui Bruce has been on the end of the phone for over 15 years to many of the NWA members and the wider industry, now she works part-time directly for the NWA as Treasurer and organising administration.    How did you personally become involved in the maritime sector? My Son had just started school and […]

Concerns and Celebration in the Apprenticeship world   – If you are a Non-Levy paying (less than 3million turnover per annum [SME]) company and thinking of possibly taking on an Apprentice(s) this year, please let us know by Friday 24th May. Due to low National funding availability for Apprentices within this bracket we must ensure our training providers have made sufficient […]

“The prime causal factor in nearly all shipping accidents can be attributed to human element issues occurring at some stage in the ship life cycle. Addressing technological failures alone will lead only to a limited improvement in safety. In order to make significant improvements in safety performance much greater attention must be paid to human […]

Register now for your seats at the NWA ‘Dinner at Seawork’ 2019! kindly Sponsored by The Ship Owners P&I Club.  (For more information on what the Club offers its members watch a short video including the NWA Chairman Mark Meade here) This year the event will take place onsite at the Golden Arrow restaurant (at the top […]

“Procedures Writing- with Nippin Anand, 14th May, Manchester By popular request we have arranged for Nippin Anand to run another workshop for NWA members at the Chancellors Hotel, Manchester on Tuesday 14th May.  Many of you will recall Nippin addressing previous meetings on various Safety-related topics – or attended his workshop on Safety Culture a couple of years ago […]

NWA will have stand PB 128 at Seawork this year – almost the same spot as last year. In addition on Wedsnesday 12th, 10:30 – 12:00Hrs, we will be holding an open Safety Forum, on the theme of “Unsafe Access for Workboats – How to Address an Industry Problem”. We will also be holding our […]

Willem van der Val form Windcat and I attended this workshop, hosted by DfT as part of their development of a Clean Maritime Plan which will be published later this year. With attendees from across the maritime industry they painted a fairly stark picture that as part of an international move to achieve Zero emissions […]