ISM Code and the Safety Management System: Procedures, Audits, Non-Conformities Master's Review with 280 Practice Questions

A SAFETY SYSTEM YOU CAN EXPLAIN, USE AND DEFEND The ISM Code asks every shipping company to describe how it keeps ships safe, to follow that description, and to keep records that show it. This workbook takes watchkeeping officers, masters, designated persons, superintendents and students through that idea one lesson at a time. WHAT YOU WILL LEARN Each of the 30 lessons explains one part of the system in plain language, with tables, a worked example, common mistakes and a short knowledge check. You will see how the sixteen elements fit together, what the master and the designated person each do, how procedures, checklists and records are controlled, and how a near miss becomes a report and a corrective action that is actually closed. AUDITS, FINDINGS AND REVIEW The book shows how to prepare for an internal or external audit honestly, how evidence is gathered, how observations, non-conformities and major non-conformities differ, and how the master's review and the company management review use the results. A section on certification explains the Document of Compliance, the Safety Management Certificate, annual and intermediate verification, renewal and interim certificates, with dates worked out step by step. PRACTICE AND REFERENCE After the lessons you will find 280 practice questions in all, made up of chapter checks and a final review, with a full answer key. Step-by-step methods, case studies, oral exam questions, worked examples, situations, drills, reference tables, forms and a glossary support revision and daily use. GOOD TO KNOW This is an educational guide for training and revision. Companies, ships, dates and figures are made-up examples. The text of the Code, SOLAS, your flag State rules and your own company safety management system govern in practice.