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Resolution A.1022(26) Please find here below the following useful informationIMO Guidelines on the Implementation of the International Safety Management (ISM) Code by Administrations

RINA has received delegation for Load Line, SOLAS, MARPOL, ISM, and Tont surveys for US flagged nage Genoa-based classification society RINA has been authorized by the U.S. Coast Guard to conduct plan review and approval and initial and subsequent surveys for U.S.-flagged cargo and passenger vessels. Under the agreement signed yesterday, RINA has received delegation for Load Line, SOLAS, MARPOL, ISM, and Tonnage survey and certification services.The MOA delegating authority and establishing guidelines for co-operation between the USCG and RINA was signed at Coast Guard Headquarters in Washington yesterday, by Rear Admiral Paul F. Zukunft (Assistant Commandant for Marine Safety, Security and Stewardship) USCG and Ugo Salerno, CEO, RINA.RINA was the first international classification society to sign a co-operation agreement with the USCG for foreign-flag passenger ships using US ports, and since then has worked hard with the Coast Guard to ensure that US passengers sail on safe ships. Today this new agreement recognizes the success of that agreement and makes RINAs services available to the wider US shipping industry.Source: RINA

ROs are authorized to verify compliance with the ISM Code The Republic of the Marshall Islands issued Marine Safety Advisory regarding Recognised Organizations (ROs) acting on behalf of the Marshall Islands Maritime Administration.Recognized Organizations authorized to verify compliance with the ISM Code and issue ISM Code Documents of Compliance and Safety Management Certificates on behalf of the Republic of the Marshall Islands.To view further information, click here.Source: Republic of the Marshall Islands

The third assistant engineer died after picking up a live wire while conducting electrical repairs A safety audit carried out more than a month after a fatality on board has identified deviations that pose a threat to personnel.A US Coast Guard (USCG) report into a fatality on board an ExxonMobil-controlled chemical tanker has revealed how the shipowner failed to notify the loss of life to a classification society during a safety-management-system audit.The incident dates back to January 2009 on board the 47,781-dwt Wilmington (built 1984), when third assistant engineer Christopher Erickson died after picking up a live wire while conducting electrical repairs.A USCG probe into the accident found numerous safety failings and identifiable deviations from the International Safety Management code and Safety Management System, which posed a threat to personnel.

Its effectiveness has been the subject of much debate The ISM Code offers a systems approach to facilitate the management of shipboard safety and pollution prevention.It lays down systems of work involving assessment and control of risk along with self-checking and self-critical measures for the purposes of verifying and improving its performance. However, its effectiveness has been the subject of much debate.Previous studies based on Port State Control deficiencies and marine insurance claims and surveys using user perception failed to establish a clear causal relationship.Yet, everyone appears to believe that the Code can improve the industrys standards and to be keen to see it realised.

International Maritime Human Element Bulletin Alert You cannot produce a safety management system on the cheap, or expect people to snap to attention and follow procedures when the top management fails to provide the resources, while failing to exhibit a positive attitude to safety.There is some tough talking and good reading in the latest issue of the International Maritime Human Element Bulletin Alert! which develops the themes of health, safety, security, environment and quality (HSEQ) - the essential components of an integrated management system. Practical and expert contributors demonstrate that safety is not something that raises its head at safety meetings, but must be woven into the fabric of both the organisation and the individual, ashore and aboard.What are the stumbling blocks to the International Safety Management Code reaching its full potential? A thoughtful study suggests that while the ISM Code might seem to be just a set of tools, a range of conditions which include full employee participation, the acceptance of seafarers as equal partners, and a radical change of mindset are needed to escape the authoritarian tick-box mentality that it can become in the wrong hands.Common sense and seamanship are often forgotten in our regulated world, where blaming ...

The purpose of IACS guidance is to to assist ship operators in meeting the requirements of the ISM Code with respect to PSC, certification, training, SMS failures, shipboard maintence and others. 

ISM Code guidelines establish basic principles for verifying that the SMS of a Company responsible for the operation of ships or the SMS for the ship or ships controlled by the company complies with the ISM Code.