- Introduce, maintain, review and develop a set of Boat Safety Standards for adoption by UK navigation and harbour authorities to help those authorities reduce risks linked to the use of boats
- Provide BSS Examination Checking Procedures to assess the condition of boats against Standards
- Educate waterway users about the BSS Standards and promote safety and environmental protection to help reduce the risks linked to boating
- Provide a comprehensive training and authorisation programme for BSS Examiners to effectively conduct BSS Examination Checking Procedures
- Undertake quality assured Examinations of boats ensuring consistency, accuracy, and compliance with regulatory standards
- Actively facilitate and encourage all inland navigation and statutory harbour authorities across the UK to adopt the BSS common technical safety standards
- Through research and information sharing we will help reduce risks associated with the use of boats.
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The Boat Safety Scheme
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Boat Safety Scheme Ltd (BSS) is a public safety initiative helping to protect people, property and environments across the UK’s inland waterways. A not-for-profit company, working with navigation and harbour authorities to reduce the risks of boat fires, explosions, carbon monoxide poisoning, and pollution.
Our aims, values, vision & mission statement
- Trust & Transparency: Committed to maintaining the trust of navigation and harbour authorities, boaters, and stakeholders through integrity and open communication
- Excellence in Safety: Continuously improving to enhance safety on the water
- Innovation: Proactively identifying emerging safety risks, apply lessons from past incidents, and adapt to new challenges
- Collaboration & Engagement: Including stakeholders in cohesive discussions when proposing changes and making key decisions
- Efficiency & Value: Ensuring we are cost-effective while prioritising safety and service improvements
- Accessibility & Inclusion: Striving to make the BSS accessible to all navigation and harbour authorities, supporting a unified approach to boat safety.
People, property and environments are protected through trusted checks, clear guidance, and shared responsibility
Protecting people, property and the environment across the UK’s inland waterways
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Our team
Boat Safety Scheme Limited, or BSS, is a public safety initiative run as a not-for-profit company limited by guarantee. Our role in supporting navigation and harbour authorities, is 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.
This has to be achieved in a way that balances the responsibilities of the navigation authorities and the responsibilities of individual boat owners.
The BSS comprises a team of 10 operating across the UK supporting 16 navigation & harbour authorities. BSS colleagues are Canal & River Trust employees permanently seconded full time to BSS Limited.
