A merican Club Circular No. 26 /1 8 1 JUNE 29, 2018 CIRCULAR NO. 26/18 TO MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATION Dear Member: AMERICAN CLUB LOSS PREVENTION: INVITATION TO MEMBERS TO PARTICIPATE IN A JOINT MARINER SAFETY PROJECT As many Members will already be aware, the American Club, in partnership with the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) and Lamar University (Lamar), has recently launched a new project aimed at reducing maritime-related safety incidents. Its objective is to develop recommendations aimed at improving the day-to-day safety of maritime personnel, both afloat and ashore, through sharing the results of data research analyses derived from the initiative. These results will be presented and shared in an appropriate context for owners, operators and seafarers in order to support improvements in corporate safety management systems and to help achieve operational safety excellence. The research will include the more common shipboard incidents, including relevant causal factors, and potential corrective actions. This project builds upon the existing ABS/Lamar Maritime Safety Research Initiative (MSRI) launched in 2010. To date, the MSRI project has collected approximately 140,000 injury and near miss reports from 31 different industry partner sources. These sources represent more than 2,000 vessels, of all types and sizes, and over 50,000 seafarers from around the world. This substantial database of maritime injury and near miss reports has allowed ABS and Lamar to develop highly relevant safety-related guidance to share with industry partners and the maritime industry as a whole. The addition of the American Club to this initiative brings additional safety-related skillsets and loss prevention expertise. Your Managers invite Members to participate in this project. Most Members comply with the provisions of the International Safety Management (ISM) Code or 46 CFR Subchapter M regarding the development and implementation of procedures concerning the documentation of incidents, near-misses and non-conformities related to safety. Additionally, Members’ participation in this type of activity helps demonstrate a commitment to continual improvement in Members’ risk, safety and quality management systems. Members comply with the reporting requirements of the ISM Code and Subchapter M in different ways, depending upon their operations. Some report such information in simplified detail, with paper records, while others report the same information in significant detail and electronically. For the purposes of this study, all Members, regardless of the level of detail of their reporting, are invited to participate. Members will find attached hereto a summary of the MSRI and examples of the information being sought. This is a comprehensive list (by no means are A merican Club Circular No. 26 /1 8 2 any participants required to submit all of the information noted) and is for guidance purposes only. Neither the American Club nor ABS will have access to raw/original records of information submitted by Members. Data will be submitted directly to Lamar, the academic industry partner, which is responsible for data sanitization. ABS and the American Club will only have access to sanitized records of data analyses for purposes of disseminating safety guidance and best practices. It is hoped that Members will consider participating in this important initiative. There are many benefits to becoming an industry partner with the MSRI, starting with the fact that i