Operational Library

Practical reference material for the people who run operations. The Operational Library addresses the recurring problems faced by marine, energy and industrial organisations — operational control, compliance, continuity and the knowledge that keeps an organisation running.

• What a Ship Management Company Loses When an Experienced Superintendent Leaves

  The handover covers the vessels, the surveys and the problem ships. What leaves with the person is everything that made the list mean something.

• Why Certificate and Survey Renewals Slip - and What It Costs When They Do

  Nobody decides to let a certificate lapse. It happens through a dozen small gaps that each looked harmless at the time.

• When an Audit Finding Comes Back - In a Different Form

  Not always the same finding, but one with the same cause underneath it - and the organisation deals with each as if it had never seen anything like it before.