Develop goal-based approach to new regulations to safely navigate the future.
After a long history of developing prescriptive regulations, the introduction of new technologies, digitalization and automation has rendered many of these regulations outdated and in need of urgent review. To accommodate the fast-changing trends in technology and to provide flexibility for ship designers and equipment manufacturers, the Organization has embraced the concept of goal-based regulations. This means setting broad overarching safety, environmental and security standards that ships are required to meet during their lifecycle – while allowing for appropriate methods (including novel and innovative approaches) to reach those standards. Some recent examples are the International Code for Ships Operating in Polar Waters (Polar Code), the International Code of Safety for Ships carrying Industrial Personnel (IP Code) and the ongoing development of a goal-based Code to regulate MASS. The utilization of the goal-based approach to new regulations to safely navigate the future will continue.


















