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ImplementationISM Code

The ISM Code aims to establish international standards for safe ship management and pollution prevention, involving shipping companies, authorities, and crew in its implementation. It emphasizes the importance of safety committees, checklists, and regular audits to ensure a safe working environment at sea. Despite some criticism regarding increased paperwork, the Code's objective is to foster a safety culture with clearly defined roles and responsibilities for all personnel involved.

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ImplementationISM Code

The ISM Code aims to establish international standards for safe ship management and pollution prevention, involving shipping companies, authorities, and crew in its implementation. It emphasizes the importance of safety committees, checklists, and regular audits to ensure a safe working environment at sea. Despite some criticism regarding increased paperwork, the Code's objective is to foster a safety culture with clearly defined roles and responsibilities for all personnel involved.

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Implementation ISM Code

For implementing ISM code on ships, all the three the shipping company, the governing
authority, and the ship’s crew together play an important role. Every seafarer should know
the important aspects of the ISM code in order to create a safe working environment while at
sea. Plans and checklists form the most integral part of the implementation procedure of the
ISM code on ships. Checklists for safe starting and stopping of shipboard machinery, along with
plans to carry out various work procedures on board ship ensures the safety of the ship and
marine environment. Every ship has a safety committee, along with a safety officer, to discuss
and implement new safe working practices and update the existing ones. The master of the ship
is the chairman of the committee and ensures proper functioning of the same. Moreover, the
shipping company pays an important role to ensure that the ISM code is properly implemented
on the ships. The company also appoints a safety officer, who is required to carry out his duties
properly by providing all the necessary information regularly

The purpose of the International Safety Management (ISM) Code is to provide an


international standard for the safe management and operation of ships and for pollution
prevention. The Code's origins go back to the late 1980s, when there was mounting
concern about poor management standards in shipping.

While the rule of ISM Code has been the most controversial among all shipping
legislative documents. After 20 years of implementation, the industry still examines the
effectiveness of the Code, as there are plenty of seafarers and shore staff who feel that ISM
Code has only brought more paper work to daily operations. However, the general idea and
the objective of the Code is to enhance safety culture based on a documented and
assessed operation environment in which each one has a specific role and responsibility
(both ashore and on board personnel). The Code defines that ‘Company’ holds the
responsibility to take over all duties imposed by the Code, incorporating SMS into normal
business operations. It also requires internal & external audits, certificates, a designated
person who will be a link between ship and shore and clarifies levels of authority and lines
of communications. These are also accompanied with checklists, related forms and
procedures.

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