Tag: Quality assurance

US Coast Guard issued a Marine Safety Alert to operators, regarding potential suspect and counterfeit items, which are deficient when compared to authentic ones, and can lead to marine casualties and unsafe conditions.

A number of NOPSEMA inspections have identified a trend in the standard of audits conducted on diving systems and equipment. Specifically, a number of operators of diving projects and diving contractors have failed to ensure diving system audits have been conducted to an appropriate standard.

Working together, ASKET and PCA Maritime have developed a process that provides much greater certainty that a PMSC is using only weapons licenced to that company, with appropriate EUCs in place, thus ensuring compliance and eradicating liability for the ship operator and flag State.

The Hong Kong Marine Department has issued Merchant Shipping Information Note to shipping industry of the measures taken by Marine Department to maintain the quality of the ships on the Hong Kong Shipping Registe

Maersk Drilling hires DNV for software quality assurance

Quality assurance in projects can help companies avoid costly problems Are you in full control of your projects? Many large projects have in recent years gone over budget and received negative media coverage in Norway.A few examples are the new Holmenkollen arena and Oslo's transport ticket system Flexus. A heavy strain has been put on many project leaders - could this have been avoided?This was the backdrop to DNV's recent breakfast seminar in Oslo , which attracted a high attendance of representatives from the public and private sector."We think the problems are often caused by insufficient anchoring of needs, unclear goals, inadequate project management and lack of risk management," says Peer Chr. Anderssen, head of DNV's Risk Management and Corporate Responsibility Unit. "This can be put right through a thorough process of quality assurance."Sharing knowledge and best practice "Along with some of our customers, we aim to share our experiences and contribute to making their projects more successful," adds DNV's senior principal consultant Rune Moen. "For DNV, this means that the more our activities can be seen as part of the customer's value-adding chain, the greater the impact of our work for safeguarding societal interests. This way we can help ...