A guest asks you, while you are working on deck, whether a well-known person is on board this trip. What is the appropriate response?

A. Politely decline to discuss who is or isn't on board, as guest privacy and confidentiality is a core expectation of yacht crew, regardless of who is asking

B. Answer truthfully only if the person asking is also a guest

C. Tell them to ask the Captain instead, but confirm it yourself first

D. Confirm or deny based on what you have seen, since the guest asked directly

A. Leave procedural compliance to each head of department, with no cross-checking

B. Wait until an incident occurs, then retrain the individuals involved

C. Rely on the SMS manual alone — if it's written down, crew will follow it

D. Actively encourage crew to raise near-misses and procedural drift without fear of blame, and personally follow the same standards you expect of others

A. Near-miss reports are only useful for the annual safety meeting

B. Reporting near-misses is mainly a way to assign blame to the individual involved

C. It doesn't matter — near-misses on one ship have no bearing on others

D. Near-miss data, shared and analysed across a fleet (and via schemes like CHIRP Maritime), helps identify recurring risks before they cause a serious incident elsewhere