ISM & ISPS Audit

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The purpose of the International Safety Management (ISM) Code is to provide 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 "the Company". The Company is then required to establish and implement a policy for achieving these objectives. 

The International Ship and Port Facility Security (ISPS) Code is an amendment to the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) Convention (1974/1988) on minimum security arrangements for ships, ports and governmentagencies. Having come into force in 2004, it prescribes responsibilities to governments, shipping companies, shipboard personnel, and port/facility personnel to "detect security threats and take preventive measures against security incidents affecting ships or port facilities used in international trade."

Scorpius Marine LLC, surveyors are certified to carry out annual Internal ISM and ISPS Audits on board the ships. Revised ISM Code, effective 1 January 2015, element 12.5 and ISPS Code A section 9.4.1 requires the internal auditor to be independent of the areas being audit