In order to ensure safety at the sea and, also, prevent any kind of damage to property, personnel, and environment, it is important to know ISM code 2014 for your needs. ISM code is basically the International Safety Management Code. It is important for you to know what are the elements of Safety Management System Manual. These are:
- Commitment from the top management.
- A designated person that is ashore to serve as the link between the shore staff and the ships in order to verify the SMS implementation.
- It also contains a procedures manual that documents what is exactly done on board the ship, during normal operations and also in various emergency situations.
- It has all the procedures that are basically required for conducting both internal and external audits in order to ensure that the ship is doing what is exactly documented in the procedures manual.
- A top tier policy manual system for in order to identify where actual practices do not meet those that are actually documented and in order to implement associated corrective action.
- Management reviews that are read regularly.
Also, it’s important that the ship must be maintained in conformity with the provisions of all the relevant rules and regulations and also, with any additional requirements that may be established by the company. All the comments from the auditor or the audit body and from the ship are incorporated into SMS by headquarters. The requirements of the ISM Code is to be applied to all the commercial ships that are over 500 GT.
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