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SAFETY

Credit: Hornblower

Looking (& Planning) Ahead Coast Guard is NOT why you should have a SMS. Fear

The SMS has been around a long time. Subchapter M is usually gets you compliance at best, concealment at worst; now heralding the advent of similar changes for the inland falling far short of the target for which we all should be aim- towboat sector. And, the passenger vessel sector is cooking ing … For all its merits, however, we should all keep our up its own version of this emerging safety culture tool. Not eyes open for the pervasive by-product called compliance everyone is on board with it. USCG Captain Boone thinks culture, wherein safety is static, only achieves the minimum, that’s about to change, but at the same time, change won’t and exists mostly to satisfy regulators; all of which leads to come easily. overcon