"The purpose of the Common Marine Inspection Document (the ‘CMID’) is to reduce the number of audits carried out on individual marine vessels, together with the adoption of a common auditing standard for the offshore marine industry." - (IMCA M 149 - Introduction)
Well irony perhaps that we went through the CMID February this year, still we are now doing another since the first was an issue 7, and the one we are doing now are an issue 6. So even when the industry themselves decides upon a standard for inspection, they still is not able to decide upon which version they are using.
How could one describe being in the audited part of such an inspection? Try an 10 hours continuous oral exam, where failing just does not mean a bad grade, but may lead to the vessel not getting the intended chart. The ones that order the CMID to be conducted, does so in order to verify if the vessel is suitable to work for them. Of course if the surveyor does not find the vessel satisfactory, the vessel will not be chartered. So today all the ships certificates have been examined, our procedures and the way we do thing have been checked. One could think that we than after a whole day of examination now could lay back and relax but, alas the inspector will be back tomorrow, to continue the second half.
Luckily we have nearly all our paperwork and routines in order, so there are so far no big issues. May that continue tomorrow.
About Me
- Sjømann
- I'm a 35 year old man from Norway currently working in the North Sea aboard a large multipurpose offshore vessel. I hold the position as 1st officer, and operates the ships Dynamic Positioning Equipment among all the other tasks reserved for my position. So far in my officer career DP operation have been a major part of my experience, hence the name of my blog. I may have one of the worlds greatest views from the bridge, that newer stays the same two days in a row, that may be the one of the greatest upsides to my job, while being away from my family and friends for half the year by far is the greatest downside. My intentions of this blog is first and foremost to give my closest relatives an update on what I'm doing, but if others find it interesting. Well... you are very welcome..
CMID inspections:The Common Marine Inspection Document (CMID) Inspections provides a platform for all marine professionals to use a standard format for inspection of offshore vessels.
ReplyDeleteCMID Accredited Inspectors are free to use marine inspection format provided by the International Marine Contractors Association (IMCA) for the inspection and audit of offshore marine vessels in the in the offshore industry.