SIRE 2.0

This overview indicates which guidance documents are applicable to each programme user group, but it is advisable to review all documents for full familiarisation.

This guidance document provides comprehensive instructions and essential information for all SIRE 2.0 participants, including submitting companies, vessel operators, inspectors, and programme recipients. It outlines the key policies, procedures, and processes.

This document provides advice on using tablets ergonomically, including images of how to carry tablets and accessories, guidance on mitigating identified ergonomic risk factors, and potential solutions to these issues.

This easy-to-use Excel spreadsheet provides insight into each task and compares VIQ7 and SIRE 2.0 procedures. It also includes useful links to guidance documentation.

This document provides clear guidance and rules for the use of the Tablet Camera and Voice Recorder.

The document’s purpose is to guide submitting companies on best practices for reviewing and validating SIRE 2.0 draft inspection reports prior to their publication in the SIRE 2.0 programme database.

The document guides submitting companies on inspection management processes, including inspection requests, accepting requests, allocating inspectors, compliance reports, inspection cancellations, resubmissions, withdrawal of inspection reports, and audit history.

The document guides vessel operators through inspection management processes, including inspection requests, operator input, inspection cancellations, pre-inspection declarations, inspection resubmissions, and inspection publishing.

The document guides inspectors through inspection management processes, including tablet editor, capturing observations, media options available on the tablets, tracking of and contingency inspections, partial paper-based inspections, incomplete inspections, and inspection resubmissions.

The document provides information on the Suggestions for Improvement (SFI) Portal and step-by-step instructions on how to access it.

This gives information on the inspection report format and captured information, including vessel and operator particulars, CVIQ questions completed by inspectors and unvalidated PIQ responses

This document gives information on advanced training and evaluating crew performance so that a potential charterer can better understand what a vessel operator has done to maintain and monitor standards onboard.

This Excel spreadsheet provides a library of questions (including HVPQ or PIQ) that could be asked and the correct response to each question.

This document provides step-by-step guidance on the paper-based contingency process, which can be completed onboard in cases where a tablet cannot be used, including partial paper-based inspections, online editors, incomplete inspections, and report changes.

This is a step-by-step guide on what is required from the inspector/quality assessor, the master, officers, and other staff when introducing themselves, the format of the meeting and a useful checklist.

This is a step-by-step guide on what is required at the closure of the meeting, explaining the observation declarations and a useful checklist.

Any non-compliance identified during inspections should be recorded in the inspection editor. This document provides insight into the negative observation module and the classification of a subject of concern (SOC) and nature of concern (NOC).

This is a step-by-step guide on how to upload photographs and a defined list of photographs required. The inspector uses the images to verify the condition and insert them in the final report.

A guide on how to complete a Pre-Inspection Questionnaire (PIQ). In combination with the HVPQ, this will ensure appropriate questions are assigned to each inspection, additional information is given to inspectors during inspections and a more detailed inspection report is produced.

This provides step-by-step instructions on how to upload certificates to the certificate repository version as well as a list of specific vessel certificates that must be uploaded.

This Excel document provides a comparative analysis of the differences between SIRE 2.0 questions and the VIQ7 questions.

This document lists questions that might be asked during SIRE 2.0 inspections focusing on cargo and ballast systems, mooring and anchoring, machinery spaces, general appearance and conditions, and ice operations.

This document lists questions that might be asked during SIRE 2.0 inspections focusing on vessel, operator, and inspection specifics, certification, crew management, navigation, communication, safety management, pollution prevention, and maritime security.

This guide informs all SIRE 2.0 Programme participants (stakeholders) of how the inspection process has been designed and the expectations for its implementation.