Further Information

Please see the following in the Information Resources section:

Information Resources on the International Safety Management Code (ISM Code)

ISM Code study

Phil Anderson, vice-president of the Nautical Institute, is conducting research into the "perceived conflict between the requirements under the ISM Code to produce a wide range of documents and reports as a part of its SMS (Safety Management System) to make ships safer and seas cleaner, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, the consequential production of potentially self incriminating evidence which could be used against those who produced that evidence: the ships master, or other seafarer - whose very livelihood and freedom are at stake - and the ship operator who will stand exposed to civil or criminal liabilities."

The research will involve a detailed survey across the shipping and other relevant industries to establish: to what extent the documentation and reports required under the ISM Code are, or are not being produced; if, as is suspected, the documentation and reports are not being produced as required under the ISM Code - then to establish why there might be reluctance; whether, if the previous presupposition proved to be correct, the perceptions of the different parties involved actually coincide; what the perceived consequences might be of not complying versus complying.

For further information or to take part in the study, please see http://www.ismcode.net/