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Electronic Fleet Regulations
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Digitise your ISM Code Fleet Regulations and Safety Management System and make updating it and distributing it easier and cheaper to manage. |
| The International Management Code for the Safe Operation of Ships and for Pollution Prevention (ISM Code) addresses the responsibilities of the people who manage and operate ships and provides an international standard for the safe management and operation of ships and for pollution prevention. The Code establishes safety-management objectives and requires a safety management system (SMS) to be established by your company. 1.2.3 of the ISM Code states that "the safety management system should ensure: compliance with mandatory rules and regulations; and that applicable codes, guidelines and standards recommended by the Organisation, Administrations, classification societies and maritime industry organisations are taken into account ".
Electronic Fleet Regulations provides an efficient and cost-effective way to integrate your guidelines and standards throughout your fleet. Electronic Fleet Regulations: "save a huge amount of paperwork and free up valuable internal resources, allowing you to source the most up-to-date information on any given aspect of fleet regulations" - Mike Ridley, Fleet Director P&O Ferries.
They can be made available on your ships' network, your intranet, a VPN (Virtual Private Network), your shore-based network or on a CD or DVD for offline or offsite access. |
Updates and distribution become much simpler, take less time and use up fewer resources - they become much more cost-effective to manage. Since your Fleet Regulations are held electronically, you can include other media in them that you couldn't do with paper-based regulations: a training video for operators of your new Marine Evacuation System, audio files of example distress signals, layered CAD (Computer Aided Design) drawings of your ships' infrastructure, and so on. What's more, if parts of your Fleet Regulations are restricted (for the Master's eyes only, for example) you can make sure that they are the only ones who have access to it, on board ship, on shore, or even on the stand-alone CD. Searching for information is fast and effective - and it's so simple that you won't require any training to use it. Electronic Fleet Regulations can be incorporated into your company without you changing any of your existing business practices and "one of the key advantages of the [system] is that it constitutes an inexpensive solution and requires the minimum amount of work to set up and run." - Mike Ridley, Fleet Director P&O Ferries.
Electronic Fleet Regulations save space, are easier and cheaper to maintain and distribute, ensure up-to-date information is available to the whole fleet and require no training to use. Next Steps |