How to Simplify Your SMS?

Most Safety Management Systems (SMS) have become too big, too complex, and lost sight of the user – the seafarer.

The Lovoy Method is for companies wishing to use their own people to make their SMS more user-friendly.

Lovoy is a research and development corporation that specializes in reducing large volumes of complex text to clear, easy to use text without losing facts. The Lovoy Method makes your SMS comply better with requirements and become more user-friendly at the same time.

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Press Release: ClassNK and Lovoy Signed MOU to Jointly Explore Enhanced Safety at Sea

Tokyo/Vancouver Island, ClassNK and Lovoy have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to cooperate with development and implementation of more user-friendly Safety Management Systems (SMS).

Get Ready for SIRE 2.0 – the Link to SMS Improvement

P&I marine insurance article about how shipping companies should prepare to get the most out of the new SIRE 2.0 inspection standard.

BIMCO Lovoy SMS Webinar

How to Make Risk-Based Checklists. Are Checklists for Compliance, Safety, or Both?

Simplify Your SMS: Learn Effective Strategies in this Webinar Video

Are you struggling with vetting inspections due to a complex Safety Management System (SMS)? Watch this webinar short version.

Importance of Good Emergency Procedures

Marine insurance article about emergency procedures and the Lovoy Method.
NorthStandard, one of the largest P&I clubs (former North of England and the Standard Club) recently published this article about how shipping companies can improve their emergency and contingency procedures.

K-Line Implements Lovoy Method

“With our new Safety Management Systems (SMS), we can focus more in on necessary items and make more serious risk assessments. It is an approach that our seafarers are happy to see and have”.

New Article: How to Simplify SMSs?

Safety Management System (SMS) simplification research article from BIMCO event

Can a SMS Be User-Friendly and Compliant?

A Study of Safety Management Systems

SMS Simplification Workshop 2022

Article from North Marine Insurance Loss Prevention Workshop, Seattle October 18th.

Improved SMS with Lovoy Method

V.Group introduces user-friendly language to improve safety performance.

Systems-Based Safety Approach has Plateaued

North of England P&I Association (North) recently published that the effects of the systems-based approach to safety have plateaued and that we must look for new ways to drive further safety gains.

Video: Bahri SMS Simplification

Bahri have seen Safety Management Systems grow and become more complex. Now they are looking forward to them becoming simpler more concise and easy to use.

Video: Offshore Production Procedures

In September 2017, Teekay Offshore Production completed a simplification and improvement project. The project was for their Safety Management System (SMS) for Floating Production Storage and Offloading operations (FPSO).

Video: User-Friendly Procedures are Used More

How Offshore Supply Operator Eidesvik simplified and improved their Safety Management System (SMS).

Video: Simplification Wins Safety Award

Gaslog’s procedure simplification won the Safety at Sea Award.

Simplicity Improves Diving Safety

IMCA (International Marine Contractors Association) published this news article about how Technip’s (now TechnipFMC) operational personnel, armed with airline industry methods, present a new mindset for procedures design.

Video: Teekay Nav Procedures

Teekay operates around 200 vessels. This video captures how Teekay have designed new navigation procedures and checklists now in use on all Teekay vessels.

Video: BSM Navigation Procedures

This video, made by Bernhard Schulte Ship Management (BSM), shows their new concise Marine Manual used by all BSM managed vessels.

Audit of New Simplified SMS

Major Client Feedback: “This was our first audit where a crew could locate all procedures immediately.”

Checklists in Hospitals

Do we have to choose between experience and checklists?

Simplified Loss Prevention Strategy Gets Industry Attention

Oil majors, shipping companies and governments are interested in the new simplified strategies for quality and safety.

Clarity Reduces Risk

In April 2016, KGJS started a new "KISS Project" to improve and make their SMS more precise. Precise means being short and clear, expressing what is needed without unnecessary words.

Transport Government Training

The Danish Transport and Construction Agency gives their inspectors and administration simplified writing training.

Simplified Emergency Response

Major airline used simplicity to improve emergency response procedures.

V.Ships Improves New SMS

V.Ships manages or crews approximately 600 vessels. The main team based in Glasgow started user-friendly and concise writer training in 2016.

FPSO Procedures

Teekay Petrojarl starts improvement and simplification project for their Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) procedures.

Oceaneering SOP

In 2013, Oceaneering made new User-Friendly Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for their Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROV).

SMS Simplification - BIMCO Webinar Article and Video

Are you struggling to pass vetting inspections due to your complex Safety Management System (SMS)? Do you want to make your SMS more user-friendly for your seafarers? This article shares how other companies simplified and improved their SMSs.

New: Maritime Plain Language Dictionary

The latest version of the Lovoy Maritime Plain Language Dictionary is now available.