Awarded on 24th August 2020, Silversea’s ultra-luxury Silver Spirit has actually come to be the very first ultra-luxury cruise liner to cruise with an accreditation in infection avoidance for maritime (CIP-M) from DNV GL, the globe’s leading category culture. The accreditation of Silversea shows the cruise ship line’s dedication to boosting its onboard hygiene methods to additional safeguard the wellness, safety and security as well as health and wellbeing of its visitors as well as staff.
The CIP-M program is improved DNV GL Healthcare’s know-how in infection danger monitoring. Using the experience from over 4,000 audits in greater than 640 medical facilities worldwide, professionals from DNV GL Maritime’s Cruise Center in Miami as well as leading physician, customized the existing infection avoidance program for medical facilities to fulfill the requirements of shipowners as well as drivers.
The accreditation is improved an one-of-a-kind mix of technological maritime expertise as well as infection avoidance know-how as well as is one of the most thorough infection avoidance accreditation readily available in the maritime market.
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“We are proud to become the first ultra-luxury cruise line to gain the certification in infection prevention for maritime, demonstrating our unwavering commitment to protecting the health, safety and wellbeing of our guests, crew and the destinations we visit,” claims Roberto Martinoli, Silversea’s President as well as Chief Executive Officer. “Informed by the work of the Royal Caribbean Group’s Healthy Sail Panel, we are working hard to enhance our already exceptional sanitation procedures on board. Beginning with Silver Spirit, we will continue to work with DNV GL to gain certification across the rest of our fleet to provide the safest possible conditions for our healthy return to sailing, when the time is right to do so.”
Silver Spirit’s brand-new three-year accreditation is customized to the ship as well as has actually been granted adhering to a close audit of all elements of procedures. After a preliminary business audit that ended on August 5th, an extensive onboard study was finished on August 14th, 2020. Focus locations of the audits consisted of:
- The cruise ship line’s COVID-19 episode avoidance as well as reaction strategy,
- infection avoidance management as well as interaction circulation,
- clinical devices monitoring,
- as well as infection danger monitoring procedures.
“We are pleased to award Silversea our Certification in Infection Prevention (CIP-M) for Maritime, which was developed as a holistic solution to the protracted pressures facing the maritime and cruise industries,” claims Knut Ørbeck-Nilssen, Chief Executive Officer of DNV GL–Maritime “As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to create a high level of public concern about the maintenance of health and safety on board cruise ships, we hope that our new certification will serve the dual purpose of helping to build passenger and crew confidence while also enhancing the cruise industry’s HSE standards.” Through yearly studies aboard as well as business audits onto land, DNV GL confirms that a business preserves a comprehensive functional strategy in conformity with the CIP-M demands. Integrating maritime details criteria, such as the United States CDC Vessel Sanitation Program (VSP), DNV GL’s groups of medical care professionals execute the accreditation studies in mix with seasoned maritime auditors, causing an unique deepness of know-how.
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