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MARINE CHEMIST

A marine chemist is an environmental, occupational safety and health professional with the task to ensure that the repair and maintenance of tanker vessels can be made in safety whenever those repairs might result in fire, explosion, or exposure to toxic vapours or chemicals.

As a result of his or her training, experience, and education, the Marine Chemist is uniquely qualified as a specialist in confined space safety and atmospheric sampling or monitoring. 

According to the dutch law, the maintenance, rebuilding, repair and demolishing of tanker vessel can only be carried out after an examination of the certified marine chemist.

OTHER ACTIVITIES

Next to our activities as a certified marine chemist we offer the following services:

- Performing daily gas free inspections checks to ensure continuing       

  safety;

- Gasfree checks enabling tanker vessels to take berth outside

  petroleum- or oil ports;

- Gasfree checks of bunkertanks on board vessels for repairs;

- Gasfree checks of Combination Carriers before discharging of bulk 

  cargo;

- Gasfree checks of tanker vessel i.c.w. change of cargo;

- Gasfree checks of confined spaces (maritime and industrial);

- Course gas testing and instructions in the use of gas measuring

  equipment;

- Course legislation safety tanker vessel and dangerous goods;

- Course confined spaces;

- Safety supervision during the transhipment of dangerous goods;

- Low Oxygen measurements (GPR-1200 ATEX Portable PPM Oxygen

  Analyzer);

- Dewpoint analyses (Alpha/Shaw model SADPμ).