The Maritime Safety Committee
Clasification Society 2024 - Version 9.40
Statutory Documents - IMO Publications and Documents - Circulars - Maritime Safety Committee - MSC/Circular.854 – Guidelines for Shipboard Loading and Stability Computer Programs – (Adopted on 12 June 1998) - The Maritime Safety Committee

The Maritime Safety Committee

  1 The Maritime Safety Committee, at its sixty-ninth session (11 to 20 May 1998), approved Guidelines for shipboard loading and stability computer programs, set out in the annex, aiming at ensuring that as new programs are developed and introduced into service, they do not overlook potential vulnerabilities which can inadvertently cause human error problems. The Guidelines should be applied where computer-based systems are used to perform functions to assist operators in monitoring and verifying specific conditions and performance of the ship.

  2 The Committee decided that the Guidelines should be reviewed in the future, on the basis of new technological developments and in the light of experience gained from their application.

  3 Member Governments are invited to bring the Guidelines to the attention of interested parties as they deem appropriate.

Parent topic: MSC/Circular.854 – Guidelines for Shipboard Loading and Stability Computer Programs – (Adopted on 12 June 1998)
Copyright 2022 Clasifications Register Group Limited, International Maritime Organization, International Labour Organization or Maritime and Coastguard Agency. All rights reserved. Clasifications Register Group Limited, its affiliates and subsidiaries and their respective officers, employees or agents are, individually and collectively, referred to in this clause as 'Clasifications Register'. Clasifications Register assumes no responsibility and shall not be liable to any person for any loss, damage or expense caused by reliance on the information or advice in this document or howsoever provided, unless that person has signed a contract with the relevant Clasifications Register entity for the provision of this information or advice and in that case any responsibility or liability is exclusively on the terms and conditions set out in that contract.