Boat Safety Scheme Limited

Boat Safety Scheme Limited was incorporated on 18 February 2024 and is a private company limited by guarantee, incorporated in England and Wales. The company started trading on 1 April 2024. The principal activity of the Company is being a public safety initiative run as a not-for-profit company limited by guarantee. The company’s objects are to support navigation and harbour authorities, to help reduce the risk of boat fires, explosions, carbon monoxide or pollution from boats harming visitors to the inland waterways, the waterways' workforce, other waterways users and property on or alongside the waterways. These objectives are met through the following activities: Introduce, maintain, review and develop a set of Boat Safety Standards for adoption by the authorities, supported by a prescribed series of BSS Examination Checking Procedures to assess compliance with those Standards; Actively facilitate and encourage all inland navigation and statutory harbour authorities to adopt the recommended Boat Safety Standards; Educate boat owners and users about the Standards and promote additional safety and environmental risk management and reduction behaviours; Design, deliver and maintain an adequate training, registration and authorising programme for the registration of BSS Examiners to carry out the BSS Examination Checking Procedures. The BSS Examiners undertake BSS Examinations and issue Certifications in a register when a boat is compliant; Have in place both a research and development programme to support the BSS Risk Management Process and a quality management process that each fundamentally underpin the above activities.