Safety Regulation and Naval Class II

OVERVIEW

The first conference on Safety Regulations and Naval Class was held in 2002. This conference will follow on from that and draw on the experiences of the past few years.

Changes in national laws and public perceptions, developments in procurement and support, and recent accidents have increasingly led to Navies re-assessing their existing safety management policies. Foremost in supporting the navies in their re-assessments are the Classification Societies. Significant investment has been made by both Navies and Classification Societies in developing these new procedures and has resulted in a far better understanding of the Navies' requirements and the differences between naval requirements and the requirements of national merchant ship administrations. Since the last conference in 2002, warships have been built to comply with Naval Classification rules and kept in "Naval Class".

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Content

Authors include representatives from 4 Navies, 6 classification societies and a number of defence contractors. Papers will be presented on the following topics:

Safety Management Policy: development of organisational safety management policies and their implementation.
Navies: how recent changes in procurement and support policies, budgets and the public perception have altered the status quo. Implications of maintaining ships in Class
Classification Societies: development of naval ship rules, regulations and procedures. Provision of independent on-site survey and product audit. Lessons learned from classing warships
Regulation: development of strategic partnerships between Navies and Classification Societies, safety certification and safety cases, improvements in regulatory competence, dual use vessels, maintaining ships in class.
Defence Contractors: reaction and lessons learnt in dealing with the new regulatory regimes and Classification Society requirements