Editorial policy
How The Crewing Desk chooses its sources, dates its sheets, handles corrections and keeps its independence from recruiters and suppliers.
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A sheet is only as good as the document behind it. This page says which documents the desk reads, how a sheet is dated, and what happens when a reader shows that a sheet is wrong.
Sources
The desk reads primary material: conventions and their amendments (STCW, MLC 2006, SOLAS, MARPOL), notices and circulars published by administrations of flag states and port states, training and certification programmes, class society guidance, medical and occupational-health literature, and the general terms published by manning offices when they describe their own procedure. Secondary writing is used to find a question, never to settle one.
Each sheet lists the sources it actually read. A source is named with its publisher, and where a document carries a date or a revision number, the sheet carries it too.
Dates and revisions
Every sheet carries the date it was last checked, not the date it was first written. When a rule changes, the sheet is revised and the new date is published; the desk does not leave an old date on revised text and does not silently rewrite a sentence that someone may have quoted.
Corrections
A correction is welcome and is treated as material, not as a complaint. Send the document, the clause and the date to [email protected]. If the sheet is wrong, it is revised and the revision is dated. If the point is arguable and the sources disagree, the sheet says that instead of choosing a side.
Independence
It names no product as recommended, no agency as a partner, and no employer as preferred. Where a company is described, it is described in the third person, from publicly published material, and it has no say over the text.