About
Our Story
Marine Comply was formed to help companies, marine facilities, vessel operators and training providers operate safely and comply with best practice, requirement and regulation. Marine Comply has two main areas of operation
Safety Management
Maritime Training
Safety Management
We offer a complete service focussed on workboats, superyachts, code vessels, domestic passenger vessels and, ports and marine facilities; however, we have also worked in other allied fields, such as water safety in civil engineering projects, assisting in USV autonomy projects and aquaculture safety.
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Safety advice and best practice
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Assistance with Risk assessment and control
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Safety management system design
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Safety management system assistance or review
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Company or vessel health checks
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Audit
Maritime Training
We offer services to awarding authorities, government organisations, associations, companies and training centres on maritime training.
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Maritime training design and implementation
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Accreditation and requirement design
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Assessment design
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Syllabus writing
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Resource book authoring and content design
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Training on specialist maritime subjects
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Awarding organisation compliance assistance
Our staff all have a maritime background and are either Masters, Skippers, Engineers or specialists in their fields so have the ability to take a practical and pragmatic view to the problems faced. They have a wealth of experience in the maritime sector.
Our Team
....IMO MSC-MEPC.7/Circ.8 §8....The Company should ensure that all personnel have the qualifications, training and experience that may be required in support of the SMS....
Director
About
Vicky is a trained Lead Auditor and has extensive experience in the maritime sector with over 30 years in the industry.
As a co-founder of Marine Comply, Vicky has responsibility for document control, presentation and maritime manning advise and compliance. She also has extensive experience in audit preparation both from the auditor and auditees point of view, having previously co-founded a successful and respected Maritime Training centre, which achieved an ‘Oustanding’ level at its first Ofsted inspection and was audited by 8 awarding and regulatory organisations annually.
Previously she was Designated Person for 8 vessels that operated around the clock and remote DP for superyachts operating around the world. She is a skipper, and previously worked for the International Sailing Federation (ISAF) and Olympic Solidarity, part of the International Olympic Committee.
Director
About
Simon has been in the maritime business since 1987 and auditing since 2002.
He ran an Accreditation Organisation for 8 years, managing a team of inspectors who audited over 400 centres annually. He wrote accreditation requirements for worldwide implementation. He has audited worldwide and assisted national administrations in the implementation of systems. He managed the RYA large vessel training department for 8 years.
He represented BSI and EBA on International Standards Committees for the design of the current ISO standard lifejacket. He is a Code vessel 'Authorised Person and Inspector', an IAMI assessor and RYA Examiner.
Previously a committee member of the National Water Safety Forum, reporting to Government and part of many MCA/BMF/RNLI/RLSS/RYA working groups to standardise lifejacket use on vessels and Code, regulation rewrites and review.
Head of UK small vessel Sea Survival Training for 7 years, training instructors and accreditation of training centres.
Previous committee member of the MCA SEAC working group (Sea Equipment Advisory Committee) and on the Combined Defence Forces committee for maritime safety equipment, including lifeboat, davit launch, MES and POD survival systems. Member of small craft safety advisory committee reporting to government.
The Royal Institute of Navigation awarded him, Fellowship for contributions to Maritime Safety.
Small vessel mid term SCV code vessel inspector.
He is actively involved in MCA code vessel reviews.
He is actively involved in IFATE apprenticeship trailblazer reviews and