Port Skills and Safety Ltd is the professional safety and skills membership organisation for ports. We work in collaboration with our members to promote best practice and innovation, develop guidance and deliver services to drive continuous improvement in safety and ensure a highly skilled workforce.

Find out more about PSS’s activities in 2024 and what is happening through 2025 in our members’ pack.

Our vision is to drive the ports sector to become one of the safest places to work, with opportunities for individual growth and collective success. We drive positive change in skills and safety across the entire port sector.

PSS has over 130 ports, services and training providers in our membership, and along with our partner organisations, the British Ports Association and UK Major Ports Group, cover most commercial ports in the UK.

We are recognised by Government departments and agencies, including the Department for Transport, Health and Safety Executive and the Maritime and Coastguard Agency.
PSS is a company limited by guarantee (without share capital), governed by Articles of Understanding, with an independent board appointed to oversee the strategic direction of the organisation.