A Guide to the Inventory of Hazardous Materials (IHM) January 2014
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The industry has now started to make a kind of material passport of the dangerous substances each ship contains, called an ’Inventory of Hazardous Materials’ (IHM). This inventory identifies, locates and lists all the hazardous and potentially hazardous materials on board a vessel. The inventory makes it easy to identify and locate hazardous materials and remove them from the when it is scrapped. Soon a ship recycling convention will be in place that requires any ship that is greater than 500 tonnes to maintain an Inventory of Hazardous Materials.33 33 wilhelmsen.com
Image: Example of an Inventory of Hazardous Materials, which lists out items, quantities, locations potential hazard type of different elements on the ship. Image © wilhelmsen.com