Photos and documents on every PSC deficiency

When a port State control officer writes up a deficiency, the work behind it produces paper of its own. There is a photo of the fire door that didn't close, a photo of it after the repair, the service report of the contractor, sometimes a letter from class or the flag. Until today all of that went into the files of the whole PSC inspection in SuperRonin, next to Form A and Form B. With eight deficiencies on one inspection it took a while to find which picture belonged to which line.

Files on the line itself. Open an inspection, and under every deficiency there is a button for photos or documents. Pick several files at once, from the phone's camera roll on board or from a folder in the office. Photos show as thumbnails right under the deficiency text, documents as a name with its size. Photos and PDFs open in a new tab; Word and Excel files download from the Files tab. Up to 100 files per deficiency, each up to 50 MB, the same limit as anywhere else in the register.

Still in one place. The same files also stay in the Files tab of the inspection, marked with the code of the deficiency they belong to. Removing a file from a deficiency removes it from the inspection as well. Scans open through signed links that stop working within two hours, so a forwarded link doesn't keep the documents open.

Who can attach. The switch is the same as for any scan: the role needs "Upload and remove scans". By default that includes the account on board, so the crew can send the photo of the repair straight from the ship while the office keeps the dates.

Into the condition. When a deficiency becomes a condition of class with → Condition, its photos and documents go with it: the condition in the Conditions register shows the same files. A photo added to the deficiency later, the repair done, appears on the condition too. The files are not copied, so removing one from the condition leaves it on the deficiency, and the other way round. Questions go to [email protected].