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Ism Management Review

The ISM code outlines safety management objectives for ship operations, emphasizing safe practices, risk safeguards, and continuous improvement of personnel skills. Key implementation steps include developing operational plans, emergency preparedness, reporting non-conformities, maintaining equipment, and ensuring proper documentation. The Document of Compliance (DOC) and interim certificates are crucial for validating compliance with the ISM code, with specific conditions for issuance and renewal.

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Ism Management Review

The ISM code outlines safety management objectives for ship operations, emphasizing safe practices, risk safeguards, and continuous improvement of personnel skills. Key implementation steps include developing operational plans, emergency preparedness, reporting non-conformities, maintaining equipment, and ensuring proper documentation. The Document of Compliance (DOC) and interim certificates are crucial for validating compliance with the ISM code, with specific conditions for issuance and renewal.

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The ISM code identifies general safety management objectives. There objectives are :
1) To provide for the safe practices in ship operation of a safe working
environment.
2) To establish safeguards against all identified risks
3) To continuously improve the safety management skills of personnel ashore
and abroad including preparing for emergencies relate a both to safety & no
environmental protection.
recently procured old sailing vessel means ISM code implementation on the
ship which is as follows.
1) Development of plans for shipboard operations:
The company should establish procedures for the preparation of plans and
structure including checklists as appropriate for key shipboard operations
concerning the safety of the ship and the prevention of pollution. The
various tasks involved should be defined and assigned to qualified
personnel.
2) Emergency Preparedness :
The occupancy should establish procedures to identify describe and respond
to potential shipboard situations. The company should establish programmes
for drills and exercises to prepare for the emergency actions.
3) Reports and analysis of non-conformities, accidents and hazardous
occurrences.
SMS should include procedure ensuring that non conformities accident and
hazardous situations are reports to the company investigated and analyzed
with the objection of improving safety and pollution prevention. The
company should establish procedure for the implementation of corrective
action.
4) Maintenance of the ship and equipments : This will include
i) Inspections are held at appropriate internals.
ii) Appropriate corrective action is taken.
iii) Record of there activities are maintained.
iv) Regular listing of stand by equipments / systems that are hot in
continuous use.
v) The inspection and the measures refused to above should be
integrated into the ships operational maintenance routines.
5) Documentation :
i) Valid documents are available at all relevant locations.
ii) Changes to documents are received and approved by authorized
personnel.
iii) Obsolete documents are promptly removed the documents may be
referred so as the safely management normal & each ship should carry on
board on documentation relevant to that ship.
6) Company verification review & evaluation : The audit and possible
corrective actions should be carried out in accordance with documented
produces. *How to achieve the certificate in short targeted span.
Ship can only be operational with valid DOC (Document of compliance)
used to a company the DOC is only valid for the ship types explicitly
indicated in the document.
DOC is issued by the administration by an RO of the administration or at the
request of the convention & valid 5 years subject to annual verification by
the administration within 3 months before or after the anniversary dates. A
copy of DOC must be kept on board & need not be authenticated or
certified.
The DOC shall be issued following verification that the SMS of the
company complies with the requirement of the ISM code. Since the
company is not new it will be having DOC.
An interim document of compliance is issued to facilitate initial
implementation of this code when
i) A company is newly established or
2) New ship types are to be added to an existing DOC following verification
that the company has a safety management system that meets the objectives
of the ISM such as interim DOC is issued for a period not exceeding 12
months by the administration.
A copy of interim DOC should be placed on board and does not require to
be authenticated or certified.
An interim SMC is issued to :
1) To new ships on delivery.
2) When a company takes on responsibility for the operation of a ship which is
new to the company.
3) When a ship changes flag
Such an interim SMC certificate issued for a period not exceeding 6 months
by the administration. In special cases ISMC can be further extended for
period not exceeding 6 months from the date of expiry.
An ISMC is issued following verification that.
- The DOC or IDOC is relevant to the ship concerned
- The SMS provided by the company for the ship concerned includes key
elements of the ISM code & has been assured during the audit of DOC or
IDOC.
- The company has planned the audit of the ship within 3 months.
- Master and officers are familiar with the SMS and the planned
arrangements for its implementation.
- Instructions which have been identified as being essential are provided
prior to sailing &
- relevant information on the safety management system has been given in a
working language & understood by the ships personnel.

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