POLICY
Health, Safety, Security & Environmental Policy
How we work safely aboard vessels and at client sites, and how we protect the marine environment.
VERSION 2.0. EFFECTIVE 4 AUGUST 2026. NEXT REVIEW 4 AUGUST 2027.
SolarisTech's field work is attendance. Our people board vessels, yards, terminals and offshore facilities that somebody else controls. That fact shapes this policy. We are responsible for the competence, fitness, equipment and conduct of our own people, and for working to the safety regime of the site we are on. We are not responsible for the safety management system of the vessel or facility, and we do not represent that our attendance makes a site safe. This policy applies to all SolarisTech personnel and to anyone attending on our behalf.
Protecting our people
- Send only personnel who are trained, medically fit and certificated for the work in hand, including enclosed and confined space training where the scope calls for it.
- Provide, and require the use of, personal protective equipment appropriate to the vessel or site.
- Brief every attendance before it starts: scope, hazards, access route, points of contact and emergency arrangements.
- Do not accept an attendance whose timeframe or manning can only be met by working unsafely, and say so to the client rather than absorbing it.
Risk assessment and stop-work authority
We assess and control the risks of an attendance before it begins, using the permit and risk assessment system of the vessel or site where one exists and our own where it does not. Every person working for SolarisTech has the authority, and the obligation, to stop any task that cannot be carried out safely, including a task requested by the client. Stopping work carries no negative consequence at SolarisTech. No inspection, deadline or fee is worth an injury.
Working at client sites and aboard vessels
- Follow the safety rules, permits, isolations and procedures of every vessel and facility we attend, and follow the master's authority on board without exception.
- Report to the master or site management on arrival, agree the plan, and keep them informed of where we are and what is being opened or accessed.
- Do not operate a client's machinery, equipment, valves or systems. We observe, measure and record. The vessel's or site's people operate.
- Report hazards, near-misses and incidents to the client and internally, and record them so the lesson survives the job.
Attendance, availability and the limits of what we can promise
Attendance is subject to availability and location. Where we cannot attend in time, we say so at first contact and help you instruct a local surveyor, rather than accepting an instruction we cannot staff safely. Remote document and image review through Nautilux does not replace physical attendance. Where a scope, a safety management system, a flag administration, a class society or an underwriter requires someone on board, someone goes on board, and we do not present a remote review as a substitute for that visit.
Protecting the environment
- Prevent pollution from our own activity and leave no waste behind on a vessel or site.
- Support clients on MARPOL, ballast water, biofouling and emissions-related requirements through our compliance work, without representing that our work discharges the client's own obligations.
- Comply with applicable environmental law and with the environmental requirements of the sites we attend.
- Keep our own footprint proportionate: plan attendances to avoid unnecessary journeys and combine visits where the scope allows.
Security
We respect the security regime of every port, vessel and facility we visit, including ISPS requirements, and we treat access credentials, gate passes, security plans and site information as confidential. Personnel are briefed on the security and travel risk of the countries they are sent to, and we do not send people where that risk cannot be managed. Photographs, notes and data taken on site are handled under our Information Security and Data Protection Policy and are not shared outside the engagement.
SolarisTech is a small company and does not run, or claim to run, a large HSE department. What we do run is a record. Every attendance is planned, every incident and near-miss is recorded and reviewed by senior management, and our objectives are set from what those records show. This policy is reviewed at least annually. Policy owner: Thomas H. Blenk, President and Chief Executive Officer. Safety concerns and incident reports: admin@solaristechinc.com.
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Questions About How We Work?
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