What is ISM code?
What is the ISM Code? The International Management Code for the Safe Operation of Ships and for Pollution Prevention (ISM Code) is a management systems model designed to encourage safety and pollution prevention.
What are the 3 objectives of ISM code?
1.2. 1 The objectives of the Code are to ensure safety at sea, prevention of human injury or loss of life, and avoidance of damage to the environment, in particular, to the marine environment, and to property.
Who does the ISM code apply to?
The ISM Code will be compulsorily applicable to passenger ships, oil tankers, chemical tankers, gas carriers, bulk carriers and cargo high speed craft of 500 gt and upwards on 1st July 1998. For other cargo ships and mobile offshore units of 500 gt and upwards, it becomes compulsorily applicable on 1st July 2002.
What is ISM code in Marine?
ISM code requires that internal audit of each vessel should be conducted at least every 12 months. This means that the superintendents of the vessel cannot carry out the internal audit of the vessels they are managing.
What is ISM and SMS?
SMS is an important aspect of the International safety management (ISM) code and it details all the important policies, practices, and procedures that are to be followed in order to ensure the safe functioning of ships at the sea. All commercial vessels are required to establish safe ship management procedures.
Is the ISM Code part of SOLAS?
What is ISM Code? Known as the International Safety Management Code, the ISM Code is one of the aforementioned required regulations in the marine industry. From the year 1994, it has been a very vital component of the SOLAS Convention (Safety of Life at Sea).
When was ism adopted?
1993
The ISM Code in its current form was adopted in 1993 by resolution A. 741(18) and was made mandatory with the entry into force, on 1 July 1998, of the 1994 amendments to the SOLAS Convention, which introduced a new chapter IX into the Convention.
When joining a vessel you should be given a?
Safety first! Shortly after joining you should receive a safety induction, but make sure to check your muster station in your cabin when you first drop your bags off. Then go see where that station is located.