P.P.E.

Means Personal Protective Equipment. It is absolutely essential when you are talking about preventing 'on the job' injuries. Safety Standards in the Offshore are high and Safety in general is the most important topic on almost all meetings. The basic idea is quite simple; we want everybody going home in the same state as he joined the ship. It is a mutual responsibility, not only of the owners and captain, but also of the crewmember himself. In earlier days Safety was an extra burden on top on the workload, now we try to integrate it in the way of working without thinking, it must be like breathing; you hardly ever think about it, and still you can't do anything without it. This is our bosun in a kind of Arabian disguise cutting grating pieces to the correct size.