ISM Code

Safety Management: Measuring Maturity

The term “safety maturity” is used by organizations to assess their performance and their capability to maintain an enhanced safety management status. Safety maturity shows the level at which any organization can manage its actions and manipulate its internal procedures, resulting in a better safety performance promoting what is called: safety culture. Shipping organizations are trying to achieve a safety culture in order to ensure that their activities will not harm human life nor the...

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Safety Management: Safety Culture vs Safety Climate – What’s the difference?

Safety culture and safety climate are similar terms describing an organization’s approach to safety, not only the visible efforts or attitudes its members chose to adopt, but also every mental function that defines their overall behavior. To be more specific, although those two definitions are used for the same reason, “safety culture” mostly refers to individual and group values, attitudes, perceptions, competencies regarding safety, while “safety climate” is mainly used to describe the...

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Safety Management: Why SMS are important

It has been 20 years since the ISM code became mandatory. Widely known as the ‘International Safety Management Code’, its implementation was a landmark for shipping industry given that for the first time, each shipping organization was obliged to develop an effective safety management. Namely, a “Safety Management System” is the core requirement for the ISM Code implementation; its aim is to ensure that safety is secured, humans are protected from injury and harm, and the environment and...

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Ensuring passengers and crew safety on board

Considering personal injury of crew, passengers and third parties on board vessels, as well as changes under English law to the compensation for these parties, the Shipowners’ Club presents preventative measures to mitigate such claims.

Many injuries happen during routine shipboard operations. An effective risk assessment not only reduces the possibility of such an incident, but may also prevent an incident from happening.

However, there are cases where the ISM code is not mandatory, such as for...

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