Section 3 Approval team

301. General

Approval team is mainly responsible for approval of risk-based design and confirms safety of risk based design and performs overall approval for commencement of construction and operation, survey and audit.

302. Society's staff in charge of design approval

1. Society's staff in charge of design approval performs risk-based design procedure.

2. The society's staff in charge of design approval performs overall progress of risk-based approval process, carries out of decision-making, documentation and review of assessment at each stage, and finally approves the design.

303. Society's Survey

1. Society's surveyors perform compliance verification in the construction phase and compliance review through the operational life of an ship, i.e. they perform the survey of construction and operation

2. The surveyors will require an introduction to risk-based design approaches. An understanding is to

be developed that compliance is generally to be viewed as compliance lations, and not necessarily with prescriptive content.

with the intent of regu-

304. External Expert

1. External experts specified in 204. may be involved in the approval team.