Grantley Stephenson (at lectern) chairman of Security Administrators Ltd. (SAL), officially opens the Port Facility Security Officers Certification Course conducted last week by SAL. Also pictured (from left) are: Stephen Bell, general manager of the Caribbean Shipping Association; Trevor Riley, general manager of the Shipping Association of Jamaica; and Captain John Ulett, managing director of SAL.
THIRTY-ONE Caribbean participants successfully completed last week's Port Facility Security Officers' Course to gain International Maritime Organisation (IMO) certification. The intensive three-day course was conducted by Security Administrators Limited (SAL), and attracted participants from Antigua, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica and St. Kitts & Nevis.
In officially opening the course on July 4, Grantley Stephenson, chairman of SAL, stated: "July 1, 2004 is the date that has drastically changed our lives in Jamaica and the Caribbean, because that is the effective date of the certification of our seaports, as required by the International Ship and Port Facility Security (ISPS) Code. That now imposes on us the responsibility of maintaining and improving the security standards that facilitated our certification."
Captain John Ulett, managing director of SAL, was coordinator of the course, which was endorsed by the Shipping Association of Jamaica, the Caribbean Shipping Association and Kingston Wharves Limited. Course presenters included Captain Lennox Bailey of the Maritime Authority of Jamaica and Nick Baylis of the Port Authority of Jamaica.
The course covered the areas of: maritime security policies; maritime security threats; security administration policy; threat identification, recognition and response; port facility security assessment; port facility security planning; security control; risk management; tours and demonstrations.
