Workforce & Training The offshore safety officer role sits on a stack of separate qualifications: a statutory appointment, a professional safety certification, survival training, and medical fitness. Each comes from a different body, and a gap in any one keeps the person on the beach. By MarineCraft Journal · 21 August 2026 · 9 mins … Read more
Drones & UAS Flying a drone legally and being accepted to inspect an asset are two different permissions, granted by two different authorities. Pilots who hold only the first keep discovering, at the gate, that it was never the qualification the job required. By MarineCraft Journal · 21 August 2026 · 9 mins read Two … Read more
Flying a drone along a hundred kilometres of pipeline, or out to an offshore platform, means flying it where the pilot cannot see it. That single step, beyond visual line of sight, is where casual drone work ends and a formal safety case begins. Here is what regulators, including Malaysia’s, actually require.
ASEAN has no mutual recognition for seafarers. Moving offshore crew into Malaysia runs through flag endorsements, work passes and PETRONAS licensing.
A drone over an industrial site is not a gadget. In Malaysian airspace it is an aircraft, and flying one for commercial work without the right certification, permit, and insurance is not a grey area. It is illegal, and enforcement has moved from theory to practice.
Understand the difference between BOSIET and T-BOSIET, when CA-EBS is compulsory, and how expired certificates create mobilisation delays in Malaysian offshore operations.
