Crew Safety, Vetting and Background Checks in Yachting
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Crew safety in yachting is still too often built on assumptions, not systems.
In this episode of Superyacht Laundry, Cherise Reedman is joined by Amelia Hilton Pierce of CrewPass for a candid, experience-led conversation about crew vetting, background checks, and why inconsistent hiring standards continue to put people at risk onboard.
Amelia spent nearly a decade working on superyachts in senior interior leadership roles. She loved the work, the teams, and the standards. What ultimately pushed her shoreside was not burnout, but repeatedly feeling unprotected and being unable to fully protect her crew.
Together, Cherise and Amelia explore how weak vetting processes, leadership gaps, and unchecked credentials quietly undermine crew welfare, safety culture, and operational integrity across the yachting industry.
They also discuss how CrewPass has evolved from individual background checks into a broader compliance and verification system, covering criminal history checks, ID verification, certificate authentication, and enhanced online footprint screening.
This is a grounded, practical conversation about accountability at sea, based on lived experience rather than theory.
In This Episode, We Cover:
- Why feeling unsafe is one of the biggest reasons women leave yachting
- The leadership and training gaps that leave crews exposed
- How fraudulent certificates and unchecked histories still make it onboard
- Why background checks alone are not enough
- What enhanced online screening can reveal beyond CVs and references
How CrewPass is reshaping expectations around crew verification and compliance
Yachts today are complex, high-risk environments with real human consequences.
If the industry expects professionalism at the highest level, crew standards must match.
Guest
Amelia Hilton Pierce
CrewPass
https://crewpass.co.uk
Host
Cherise Reedman
Founder, Yacht Pearls of Wisdom
Instagram: @yachtpearlsofwisdom