The Inventory of Hazardous Materials (IHM), which is also known as the Green Passport, is an important prerequisite of the Ship Recycling Convention. It is designed to provide safer, cleaner and more environment-friendly recycling of ships.
If you approve and verify an Inventory of Hazardous Materials for your vessel, we can certainly help you to fulfill the Convention along with enjoying numerous added through-life profits.
It is very essential of you to know the facts and figures of the Ship Recycling Convention which was adopted in May 2009. It aims to improve safety standards and also plan to lessen environmental contamination created by the recycling of ships. The IHM was earlier called the Green Passport under the 2003 Guidelines on Ship Recycling. The convention plans to tackle all the issues of ship recycling which highlights the fact that ships sold for scrapping may have environmentally hazardous materials such as asbestos, heavy metals, hydrocarbons, ozone-depleting particles and others. It is fundamental for various companies indulged in this IHM process to be more active in the sector of hazardous waste management and asbestos removal. Also, it help to maintain tank cleaning at affordabe costs.
Ships that are sent for recycling need to carry an Inventory of Hazardous Materials (IHM), which will be distinctive and unique for every ship. It consists of three parts such as an appendix to the convention will give a list of hazardous materials, the installation of which is restricted in shipyards, ship-repair yards, and ships of parties to the convention. It will be obligatory for the ships to have an initial survey to verify the IHM, additional surveys during the life-term of the ship, and a final survey before recycling. If you want to gather more information on IHM, you can visit our site Green Passport
An IHM of the ship is maintained throughout its life. Before recycling, particulars of additional dangers in stores and wastes are added. Then, the document can be used to facilitate the recycling yard to formulate a safer and more environmentally sound plan for recycling ships. IHM also aims to increase staff awareness of the materials a ship may require for special handling.
Once the complete inventory is submitted for approval, we will organize for an examiner to verify and check that the inventory is a reasonable demonstration of the hazardous materials on ship.
If you wish to discuss or know more about your Green Passport/Inventory of Hazardous Materials requirements, then please check www.shipsurvey.com.sg and we will be happy to help you.
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