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CHIRP Maritime

Appendix II: Meet Team Maritime! David Wolfhaardt

(South Africa)
Following on from the successful four year tenure of our pre-
vious Director (Maritime) John Rose, we would like to take
this opportunity to introduce you to the maritime team that
will lead CHIRP forward through 2018; not just the “front of
house” personnel, but the whole support network that keeps
the ship on a steady course. Without this support, the Pro-
gramme would not be the growing influential entity that it is.
Nikos Aslanis
The CHIRP Maritime Programme is the responsibility of the (Greece)
newly installed Director (Maritime), Captain Jeff Parfitt and
comprises five retained staff. Jeff works closely with Mari-
time Advisers Captain Ian Shields and Captain Alan Loynd
(Hong Kong). All three are contracted to CHIRP Maritime on
a part-time basis. The Maritime team is supported by CHIRP
CEO Ian Dugmore and Administrator Stephanie Dykes.
Beyond the retained staff, there is a much wider and broad-
based network of unpaid volunteers, who freely give of their The Maritime Programme also has a Maritime Advisory Board
own time to support and sustain the vision of the CHIRP (MAB) consisting of 28 senior industry professionals. Their
Maritime confidential reporting scheme. Together they make expertise is of the highest order and includes senior naval
the maritime team what it is. officers, senior maritime union officials, government medical
advisers and specialists in human factors, MCA and MAIB
At ground level there is a global network of handpicked vol- experts, fishing industry and RNLI representatives, pilots
untary Maritime Ambassadors that jointly serve CHIRP and and offshore industry specialists, as well as senior people
The Nautical Institute MARS programme. The ambassadors from mainstream commercial shipping and P&I clubs.
are senior maritime professionals who sustain a vital role
in promoting our work. By gaining the confidence of the The composition of the Maritime Advisory Board (MAB) is
maritime community within their local sector, they generate reviewed regularly to ensure that the membership is appro-
reports and give presentations, projecting CHIRP Maritime priate to the scope of the Programme. Its members act as
as a local physical identity with a growing global presence. individual expert advisers and not as representatives of
The ambassadors demonstrate that CHIRP can and will their sponsoring organisations. Their function is to review
reach out. the selected submitted reports for considered opinion and
comment. Information is provided to the MAB on a confiden-
Meet just a few of our global Ambassadors tial basis and all means of identifying the individual reporter
are removed from reports prior to any discussion. From the
Joshua Attipoe resultant comments, the content of the quarterly Maritime
(Ghana) FEEDBACK (MFB) magazine is produced and distributed.

Specific topics raised from the reports may be selected for fur-
ther analysis and if taken forward may form the basis of a special-
ist “Insight” document. Drawing upon CHIRP Maritime’s exper-
tise and substantial support network, an “Insight” paper could
then be included in the Annual Digest. Such papers to date have
included human elements, anchoring, the operation of lifeboats
William Bishop and causal analysis. It is intended to provide a freely accessible
(UK) database on our website of these papers as they develop.

Sitting on top of the whole structure are the Maritime Trus-
tees. The Trustees meet twice a year and their function is to
ensure that proper governance, in line with the objectives of
the organisation, is maintained.
The current Maritime Trustees are:
Özgur Özdelice Captain David Harrison – Independent Chairman of Trustees
(Turkey) Mr Philip Wake OBE – Independent and Secretary of CHIRP
Captain Steve Clinch MNM – Chief Inspector MAIB
Captain Steve Gobbi – Independent
Mr Allan Graveson MNM – Senior National Secretary, Nauti-
lus International
Captain Adrian Hibbert – Operations Director, Thomson Cruises
Sir Alan Massey KCB, CBE – Chief Executive, Maritime &
Coastguard Agency

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