【正文】 s duties can be safely performed. The Company should ensure that each ship is manned with qualified, certificated and medically fit seafarers in accordance with national and international requirements. The Company should establish procedures to ensure that new personnel and personnel transferred to new assignments related to safety and protection of the environment are given proper familiarization with their duties. Instructions which are essential to be provided prior to sailing should be identified, documented and given. The Company should ensure that all personnel involved in the Company39。s assistance as may be necessary.6 RESOURCES AND PERSONNEL The Company should ensure that the master is:.1 properly qualified for mand。.3 issuing appropriate orders and instructions in a clear and simple manner。 and.6 procedures for internal audits and management reviews.2 SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENTALPROTECTION POLICY The Company should establish a safety and environmentalprotection policy which describes how the objectives given in paragraph will be achieved. The Company should ensure that the policy is implemented and maintained at all levels of the organization, both shipbased and shorebased.3 COMPANY RESPONSIBILITIES AND AUTHORITY If the entity who is responsible for the operation of the ship is other than the owner, the owner must report the full name and details of such entity to the Administration. The Company should define and document the responsibility, authority and interrelation of all personnel who manage, perform and verify work relating to and affecting safety and pollution prevention. The Company is responsible for ensuring that adequate resources and shorebased support are provided to enable the designated person or persons to carry out their functions.4 DESIGNATED PERSON(S) To ensure the safe operation of each ship and to provide a link between the Company and those on board, every Company, as appropriate, should designate a person or persons ashore having direct access to the highest level of management. The responsibility and authority of the designated person or persons should include monitoring the safety and pollutionprevention aspects of the operation of each ship and ensuring that adequate resources and shorebased support are applied, as required.5 MASTER39。.2 instructions and procedures to ensure safe operation of ships and protection of the environment in pliance with relevant international and flag State legislation。International Safety Management (ISM) CodeResolution (18) as amended by (85)PREAMBLE1 The purpose of this Code is to provide an international standard for the safe management and operation of ships and for pollution prevention.2 The Assembly adopted resolution (XI), by which it invited all Governments to take the necessary steps to safeguard the shipmaster in the proper discharge of his responsibilities with regard to maritime safety and the protection of the marine environment.3 The Assembly also adopted resolution (17), by which it further recognized the need for appropriate organization of management to enable it to respond to the need of those on board ships to achieve and maintain high standards of safety and environmental protection.4 Recognizing that no two shipping panies or shipowners are the same, and that ships operate under a wide range of different conditions, the Code is based on general principles and objectives.5 The Code is expressed in broad terms so that it can have a widespread application. Clearly, different levels of management, whether shorebased or at sea, will require varying levels of knowledge and awareness of the items outlined.6 The cornerstone of good safety management is mitment from the top. In matters of safety and pollution prevention it is the mitment, petence, attitudes and motivation of individuals at all levels that determines the end result.PART A IMPLEMENTATION1 GENERAL DefinitionsThe following definitions apply to parts A and B of this Code. International Safety Management (ISM) Code means the International Management Code for the Safe Operation of Ships and for Pollution Prevention as adopted by the Assembly, as may be amended by the Organization. Company means the owner of the ship or any other organization or person such as the manager, or the bareboat charterer, who has assumed the responsibility for operation of the ship from the shipowner and who, on assuming such responsibility, has agreed to take over all duties and responsibility imposed by the Code. Administration means the Government of the State whose flag the ship is entitled to fly. Safety management system means a structured and documented system enabling Company personnel to implement effectively the Company safety and environmental protection policy. Document of Compliance means a document issued to a Company which plies with the requirements of this Code. Safety Management Certificate means a document issued to a ship which signifies that the Company and its shipboard management operate in accordance with the approved safety management system. Objective evidence means quantitative or qualitative information, records or statements of fact pertaining to safety or to the existence and implementation of a safety management system element, which is based on observation, measurement or test and which can be verified. Observation means a statement of fact made during a safety management audit and substantiated by objective evidence. Nonconformity means an observed situation where objective evidence indicates the nonfulfilment of a specified requirement. Major nonconformity means an identifiable deviation that poses a serious threat to the safety of personnel or the ship or a serious risk to the environment that requires immediate corrective action or the lack of effective and systematic implementation of a