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Assessments you have saved on this device. They are not uploaded anywhere.
This browser only. These live in this browser’s own storage, on this device. They
are not on a server and nobody else can see them. Clearing site data, using a private window,
or picking up a different computer will lose them — so if an assessment matters,
save it as a file. That file opens here again, and it is the copy you can send to
anyone.
The job what is being done, and by whom
The nearest job in the library it suggests hazards to consider — it does not tick any of them
The assessment
Conditions stated
Hazards
Judged with the controls already in place — the ship’s ordinary practice is assumed to be happening. Where that lands at Medium or High, the method asks for further controls and a second judgement.
The matrix
Four bands, and the top one is a stop. There is nothing above High.
Sign-off
How the method works, and what this tool will not do
Two levels, and the first one already counts your controls. The assessed risk is
judged with the ship’s ordinary practice happening — not in some imaginary
state before anyone did anything. If that still lands at Medium or High, the method asks for
additional measures, things you would not otherwise be doing, and then a second
judgement of what is left. Both are kept and both appear side by side, so a reader can see
whether anything actually moved.
A level appears only when both answers are given. A half-answered hazard shows
nothing. A “Very low” that only means “you have not said how bad it would
be” is worse than a blank, and it never reaches an export either.
Conditions prompt, they never recalculate. Selecting darkness will say that darkness
bears on a fall hazard. It will not move a likelihood, because it cannot know by how much.
That judgement is the officer’s and the tool does not have the standing to make it.
What the library is. Common seamanship in ordinary words, written from scratch. It
carries no company names, no form numbers and nothing copied from anyone’s procedures.
It is a memory jog and it is not a complete list for any real job on any real ship.
This is not a permit to work. It does not replace the vessel’s safety management
system, its procedures or its own forms, and it authorises nothing. The tool supplies prompts
and arithmetic; which hazards apply, how likely they are, how bad they would be, what controls
go in and whether the job goes ahead are judgements made by the people who sign it.
The Master remains responsible for the work and for the safety of the people doing it.
A web version of a tool from DeckWatch, the work planner for ship’s deck officers.