ORGANIzATION and RESPONSABILITiES At DASAFE

Revision of 19 March 2026

PuRPOSE

Purpose

The purpose of the present procedure is to introduce DASafe section, duty, responsibility within Recognised Organisation (RO) Marine and Offshore Head Office as well as in the network.

DEFINITIONS AND ABBREVIATIONS

DEFINITIONS AND ABBREVIATIONS

General

  • IMO: International Marine Organization,

  • IACS: International Association of Classification Societies,

  • Recognised Organisation (RO): Recognised Organisation (RO),

  • M&O: Recognised Organisation (RO) Marine & Offshore Division,

  • HO: Recognised Organisation (RO) Head Office,

  • MO_FM: Recognised Organisation (RO) Marine Operation-Fleet management department for ships in service,

  • EMC: Recognised Organisation (RO) Equipment Material Certification department

  • DV: Recognised Organisation (RO) Development department

  • DR: Recognised Organisation (RO) Research department

  • DE: Recognised Organisation (RO) Expertise department

  • DA: Design Assessment Department for Marine and Offshore Units

  • DAHull: Design assessment section for Hull/Structure for Marine and Offshore Units

  • DAMach: Design assessment section for Machinery system for Marine and Offshore Units

  • DAElec: Design assessment section for Electrical/Automation system for Marine and Offshore Units

  • DASafe: Design assessment section for Safety system for Marine and Offshore Units

  • DAStabHydro: Design assessment section for Stability and Hyrd-mooring system for Marine and Offshore Units

  • DAERS: Emergency respond section

  • Admin: Design assessment administration

  • PMO: Project management section for Marine and Offshore Units

  • RO: Recognised Organisation (RO) Surveyor center for material equipment certification

  • NC: Recognised Organisation (RO) Surveyor center for new construction projects

  • NS: Recognised Organisation (RO) Surveyor center for Ship in service

  • RO: Recognised Organisation (RO) Solution company

  • TC: Recognised Organisation (RO) Technical center for offshore design assessment (non-class projects)

  • DCM: Recognised Organisation (RO) Marine commercial section

  • DCO: Recognised Organisation (RO) Offshore (classification project) commercial section

  • TAC: Recognised Organisation (RO) Type Approval Certificate

mISSION AND SCOPE

Activity

DASafe ensure the following task, within his scope of work:

  • Design review,

  • Redaction of Type Approval Certificate,

  • Assistance to Recognised Organisation (RO) Network : FM, DCM, LPO, EMC

  • Updating and developing of Recognised Organisation (RO) rules, in cooperation with DEV, DR,

  • Management of the LPO surveyors delegations in the scope of Fire & Cargo Safety,

  • Internal Audits of the LPO,

  • Training.

Types of Ship

DASafe works on all kind of ships, within the limits of the individual delegations.This work is done at different stages: New Construction, Ship in service.DASafe activity is mainly related to:

  • Steel Ships,

  • Naval Ships,

  • Offshore Units,

Scope of Activity

DASafe scope of work refers to the following activities:

For the Fire Safety team:

  • Fire protection,

    • Passive Fire protection: fire resisting divisions, ventilation systems, means of evacuation, fire detection, materials with fire related properties,

    • Active Fire protection: fixed and mobile fire extinguishing systems,

  • Onboard integration of Life saving appliances,

For the Cargo safety team

  • Safety and pollution prevention related issues in link with cargo installations of ships carrying liquid in bulk (oil tankers, chemical tankers, gas carriers, offshore supply vessels), ships carrying dangerous goods:

    • Ship arrangement, hazardous areas, access to cargo area spaces,

    • Cargo Handling and Cargo Containment Systems,

    • Pressurized & membrane tanks,

    • Ventilation of the cargo area spaces,

    • Alarm, Control and Monitoring systems of cargo containment and handling systems (e.g., gas detection, ESD system)

    • Operating manuals.

  • Safety related issues in link with fuel installations on ship using low-flashpoints fuels as permitted in SOLAS - Part 1 - Chapter II-2 -Part B - Regulation 4 paragraph 2.1.1 (e.g. LNG, Methanol, Ammonia, H2):

    • Ship arrangement, hazardous areas,

    • Fuel Handling and Containment Systems,

    • Pressurized (e.g., Type C, MEGC) & Membrane tanks,

    • Ventilation of spaces, containing fuel equipment,

    • Alarm, Control and Monitoring systems of low-flashpoint fuel systems (e.g., gas detection, ESD system)

For details on Cargo and Fire team scope of work interfaces, reference shall be made to document “SCOPE OF WORK: DA SAFE INTERNAL CARGO / FIRE INTERFACES” attached to this procedure.

  • Following activities are OUT OF the scope of DA-Safe

    • Fuel handling systems in machinery spaces,

    • Electrical material characterization in dangerous areas,

    • Specific issues related to automatization mention (AUT),

    • Tanks integrated in the ship’s structure, independent atmospheric tanks (Type A, Type B or assimilated),

    • Damage Stability,

    • SBT & DCBT loading cases, tank volumes & lengths, double hull scantlings, shadow zones, for the oil tankers.

For further details on interfaces between DA Safe and Other DA-Sections, reference shall be made to document “SCOPE OF WORK: INTERFACES BETWEEN SAFETY AND OTHER TEAMS” attached to this procedure.

Administrative process

Administrative Process

The handling of the correspondence and management of the generic section mailbox are detailed in the related procedure.

All correspondences and jobs request are to be sent & received via section generic mail box:

marinesafety.paris@bureauveritas.com

Then jobs will be assigned to each expert accordingly.

ORGANIZATION

General Chart

The section organization chart may be found at: G/DAMagement/DA/4-Chart DA

ROLES AND RESPONSABILITIES

Head of Section Responsibilities

The head of section carries out the following actions:

  • Ensure the follow up and the coordination of the projects

  • Establish and follow objectives of the section members

  • Establish and follow-up realization of section budget

  • Validate and sign the letters as appropriate, validate quotes if above 5000 EUR

  • Monitor the achievement of the Quality objectives

  • Manage the treatment of client complaints, if any

  • Ensure the engineer are properly trained and skilled

  • Establish delegation plan to the LPOs, ensure its realization (including theoretical training organization)

  • Ensure the follow-up of the regulatory work

  • Manage the quality procedures of the section

Deputy Head of Section responsibilities

The deputy head of section carries out the following actions:

  • Act as the reference expert for the specialties within its perimeter,

  • Ensure the day to day training of the surveyors and their supervisions,

  • Assign projects in its perimeter (with validation of the Head of Section, as appropriate),

  • Follow-up of quality objectives for its perimeter,

  • Organize and give the theoretical trainings (to the network),

  • Validate the quotes in its perimeter (when below 5000 EUR).

Absence of the Head of Section

In case of absence the head section, deputies of the Head of Section carry on the day to day activities. For actions falling outside their scope of normal responsibilities, they shall request assistance of the Director of the DA Department.Other arrangements (such as temporary, limited increase of responsibilities of a deputy) may be agreed on a case basis, shall however be recorded in written.

Surveyor Task

The surveyors carry out the following actions:

  • Examine the documents submitted for approval, within the scope of their delegation,

  • Make the relevant comments, and carry out their follow-up,

  • Follow project they are tasked on: contribute to the quote preparation, act as technical point of contact for the client (whether internal or external), participate to meeting related to the project, as needed, trigger invoicing when task is completed,

In addition, as member of the Head Office, they carry out the following functional tasks:

  • Participate to the regulatory watch & update the Recognised Organisation (RO) rules,

  • Support the Recognised Organisation (RO) network by responding to questions, when tasked by the deputy head of section,

  • Participate to different meeting as representative of Recognised Organisation (RO) (IMO, IEC, IMO, …),

  • Participate to the training delivered by Recognised Organisation (RO).

QUALITY ASSURANCE

Quality Assurance

Following Recognised Organisation (RO) Marine quality procedures.

All Quality documents are stored in the Maritime Quality datebase

(https://quality-marine.bureauveritas.com/).

Health, safety and environment

Health, Safety and Environment

Following Recognised Organisation (RO) Marine quality procedures such HSE procedures and circulars.