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System Is A Total of Planned Systematic Actions and Procedures
System Is A Total of Planned Systematic Actions and Procedures
There are many ways that a company can learn, control and manage
any issue that may occur in the process of a project. Some of those are
the following:
a) Senior shore side and sea staff conducts fleet audits and
investigations to ensure compliance with Company vessel operating
policies. The group also makes recommendations to the Head of
Shipping Operations, contributing to the continuous improvement
across the fleet and in shore side technical offices.
b) Reporting systems that provide seafarers and shore side personnel
with the ability to report any unusual or irregular matter on a
confidential basis.
c) New technology that has been developed and deployed across the
fleet such may improve compliance with environmental protection
requirements.
d) Staff feedback and new ideas gathered through periodic surveys of
shipboard personnel garners new ideas on how to enhance system
and management processes, environmental equipment, personnel
management, purchasing practices and protective equipment.
With this action, the company assures that, the following production
procedure is in accordance with the specifications and the quality that
has, itselve, set as a model. On top of that, clients will know with
clarity, that his product or service is in complete accordance with what
he expects, without any discrimination or misunderstandings.
The standards of the ISM Code are provided from the SOLAS (safety of
life at sea) convention. Solas convention is regarded as one of the most
important of the international treaties, whose main agenda is the
safety of merchant ships.
The objective of the SOLAS convention is to specify the minimum
standards that ship construction, equipment and operation must meet,
in order to be considered as safe and eligible for shipping. The
companies are responsible for ensuring that ships under their flag
comply with its requirements.
The quality factor can be certified with the ISO 9001:2000. Mainly, ISO
9001 is used when a supplier needs to meet certain standards in a
production cycle of a product/service. A production cycle includes the
development stage, the designing stage, the production stage, the
installation stage and the after sales stage.
For a company that may require, further certifications for its quality
management system, there is the ISO 9004:2000 standard. This
international standard provides, guidelines beyond the requirements
given in an ISO 9001 standard.
As in ISM code, the guidelines for the ISO 14001:2004 standard, have
been decided by the MARPOL international convention. Marpol’s
convention agenda is the prevention of pollution of the marine
environment by ships from operational or accidental causes. It is a
combination of two treaties adopted in 1973 and 1978 respectively
and updated by amendments through the years. This convention is
considered one of the most important international marine
conventions.
All ships flagged under countries, that are signatories to MARPOL, are
subject to its requirements.