Maritime Safety Training

What Are Maritime Safety Training Courses?

Maritime safety training courses provide OSHA-aligned instruction focused on identifying, avoiding, and controlling workplace hazards in maritime environments such as shipyards, marine terminals, and longshoring operations.

These courses are designed to support hazard awareness and safe work practices and are not a professional license, credential, or OSHA-issued certification.

Who Needs Maritime Safety Training?

Maritime safety training is relevant for workers exposed to safety and health hazards in maritime-related environments, including shipyards, marine terminals, ports, docks, and vessel-support operations.

This may include:

• Shipyard workers
• Longshore workers
• Dock personnel
• Maintenance crews
• Maritime support staff

Training needs are determined by employers based on job duties, hazard exposure, and applicable OSHA maritime standards, and not all maritime workers require the same level of instruction.

What Maritime Safety Training Covers?

Maritime safety training courses address common hazard areas that may occur in shipyards, ports, docks, and vessel-support operations.

Coverage varies by course, but topics often include hazard recognition, safe work practices, and incident prevention related to:

• Man overboard response awareness
• Fall protection and working at heights
• Personal survival techniques and emergency preparedness

Some available courses include:

• Maritime Man Overboard Online Training: Covers procedures for recognizing, responding to, and safely managing man-overboard emergencies in maritime environments.
• Maritime Fall Protection Online Training: Addresses fall hazards and safe work practices for working at heights in shipyards, docks, and marine terminals.
• Maritime Personal Survival Techniques Online Training: Provides guidance on emergency preparedness and basic survival principles for maritime workplace incidents.

Maritime Safety Training Certificates & Requirements

Maritime safety training typically provides a certificate of completion documenting participation in a specific course, rather than an OSHA-issued certification or professional license.

OSHA does not mandate a universal expiration period for maritime safety training certificates. Refresher timing is generally determined by employers based on job duties, hazard exposure, workplace policies, or changes in operating conditions.

Why Choose 360training for Maritime Safety Training?

360training offers a centralized catalog of maritime-focused safety courses covering common hazard areas such as fall protection, survival-related risks, first aid awareness, and walking-working surfaces.

Courses are delivered online for flexibility, supporting dispersed maritime workforces, variable schedules, onboarding needs, and refresher training without disrupting operations.

Explore our full catalog of OSHA-aligned online training here.