IHM: HONG KONG CONVENTION AND EUSRR -OVERVIEW
IHM ( Inventory of Hazardous Materials) has been a hot topic among the owners and managers , here we are looking into various aspect of preparing your vessel IHM compliant one. but since the convention ( The Hong Kong International Convention for the safe and environmentally sound recycling of ships) is not ratified till now do a vessel need to compliant of IHM. Here comes another important aspect called EUSRR, basically we will look into what is this regulations are all about. Hong Kong Convention The Hong Kong Convention recognised that ship recycling is the most environmentally sound way to dispose of a ship at the end of its life, as most of the ship's materials can be reused. However, it sees current methods as unacceptable. The work sees many injuries and fatalities to workers, as they lack the correct safety equipment to handle the large ship correctly as it is dismantled and most vessels contain a large amount of hazardous materials such as