Modern vessels are built with complex systems that don’t always match their original design drawings, leading to potential compliance risks. Safety at Sea’s SRTP Equipment Survey ensures that all critical Safe Return to Port (SRTP) equipment is correctly identified, located, and documented. By bridging the gap between as-designed and as-built configurations, we help shipyards and crews maintain accuracy, efficiency, and regulatory compliance.

The Challenge

The process of building modern vessels and the complexity and sheer scale of systems onboard mean that the vessel’s final build status does not always strictly follow design drawings and P&IDs.

By contrast, the Safe Return to Port information provided to the vessel is always based on as-designed information. This is normally approved by Class societies a few months before completion. This is particularly important when considering valve locations related to Safe Return to Port response actions. A misalignment between as-designed and as-built configurations means that the crew will have incorrect information, which could affect emergency response.

Ultimately, this can lead to compliance issues, in cases where, for example, valves are relocated inside the casualty area. These issues can usually be easily fixed but may remain unknown without investigation.

The Solution

Safety at Sea can provide a full SRTP Equipment survey to identify and locate all equipment required for manual actions, as documented in the SRTP documentation.

The survey checks for:

• Incorrect equipment location, deck, watertight compartment, or fire zone
• Missing SRTP equipment
• STRP equipment with accessibility issues
• Missing or incorrect SRTP labels.

All this information can then be relayed back to the Shipyard for correction in the documentation or with physical vessel changes, if necessary. Coupled with our SRtP Onboard™ solution, the survey information can be directly updated in the onboard database, ensuring the crew is provided with the most up-to-date and correct information during drills and responses. This information can also be augmented with descriptive location information, notes, as well as required tools, added by Safety

The Benefits

• Ensures onboard SRTP information is as accurate as possible
• Identifying a detailed list of items for the shipyard to rectify prior to vessel delivery
• Augmenting onboard SRTP data with critical information
• Increasing the effectiveness of the SRTP response