A deficiency notice uses codes to show non-compliance found during a Port State control (PSC) inspection.
Use this list of codes to check your deficiency notice. The codes will help you identify and resolve non-compliance found during your PSC inspection.
- Certificates and documentation (01101 – 01342)
Ship certificates
01101 - Cargo Ship Safety Equipment (including exemption)
01102 - Cargo Ship Safety Construction (including exemption)
01103 - Passenger Ship Safety (including exemption)
01104 - Cargo Ship Safety Radio (including exemption)
01105 - Cargo Ship Safety (including exemption)
01106 - Document of Compliance (DoC/ISM code)
01107 - Safety Management Certificate (SMC/ISM code)
01108 - Load Lines (including exemption)
01109 - Decision support system for Masters on passenger ships
01110 - Authorisation for grain carriage
01111 - Liquefied Gases in Bulk (CoF/GC code)
01112 - Liquefied Gases in Bulk (ICoF/IGC code)
01113 - Minimum Safe Manning Document
01114 - Dangerous Chemicals in Bulk (CoF/BCH Code)
01115 - Dangerous Chemicals in Bulk (ICoF/IBC Code)
01116 - Operational Limitations for Passenger ships
01117 - Prevention of Pollution by Oil (IOPP)
01118 - Prevention of Pollution by NLS in Bulk (NLS)
01119 - International Sewage Pollution Prevention certificate
01120 - Statement of Compliance (CAS)
01121 - Interim Statement of Compliance (CAS)
01122 - International Ship Security certificate
01123 - Continuous synopsis record
01124 - International Air Pollution Prevention (IAPP) certificate
01125 - Engine International Air Pollution Prevention (EIAPP) certificate
01126 - Document of Compliance Dangerous Goods
01127 - Special Purpose Ship Safety
01128 - High Speed Craft Safety and Permit to Operate
01129 - Mobile Offshore Drilling Unit Safety
01130 - INF certificate of fitness
01131 - International Anti-fouling-System certificate
01132 - Tonnage certificate
01133 - Civil Liability for Oil Pollution certificate
01134 - Polar Ship Certificate
01135 - Documents for carriage of dangerous goods
01136 - International Ballast Water Management Certificate
01138 - International Energy Efficiency certificate
01139 - Maritime Labour Certificate
01140 - Declaration of Maritime Labour Compliance (part I and II)
01142 - Liability for the removal of wrecks certificate
01199 - Other (certificates)
Crew certificates
01201 - Certificates for master and officers
01202 - Certificate for rating for watchkeeping
01203 - Certificates for radio personnel
01204 - Certificate for personnel on tankers
01205 - Certificate for personnel on fast rescue boats
01206 - Certificate for advanced fire-fighting
01209 - Manning specified by the minimum safe manning doc
01210 - Certificate for medical first aid
01211 - Cert for personnel on survival craft & rescue boat
01212 - Certificate for medical care
01213 - Evidence of Basic Training
01214 - Endorsement by flagstate
01215 - Application for Endorsement by flagstate
01216 - Certificate for personnel on ships subject to the IGF Code
01217 - Ship Security Officer Certificate
01218 - Medical certificate
01219 - Training and qualification MLC - Personnel safety training
01220 - Seafarers' employment agreement (SEA)
01221 - Record of employment
01222 - Doc evidence for personnel on passenger ships
01223 - Security awareness training / designated security duties training
01224 - Certificate for rating able seafarer deck/engine and electro-technical
01299 - Other (STCW)
Documents
01302 - SAR Co-operation plan for passenger ships trading on fixed routes
01303 - Unattended Machinery Spaces (UMS) Evidence
01304 - Declaration of AFS compliance
01305 - Log-books/compulsory entries
01306 - Shipboard working arrangements
01307 - Minimum hours of rest
01308 - Records of seafarers' daily hours of work or rest
01309 - Fire control plan - all
01310 - Signs, indications
01311 - Survey report file
01312 - Thickness measurement report
01313 - Booklet for bulk cargo loading/unloading/stowage
01314 - Shipboard oil pollution emergency plan (SOPEP)
01315 - Oil record book
01316 - Cargo information
01317 - Cargo record book
01318 - P&A manual
01319 - Shipboard marine pollution emergency plan for NLS
01320 - Garbage record book
01321 - Endorsement of cargo booklet
01322 - Conformance Test Report
01323 - Fire safety operational booklet
01324 - Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS)
01325 - ACM statement of compliance (including exemption)
01326 - Stability Information Booklet
01327 - Energy efficiency design index file
01328 - Ship energy efficiency management plan
01329 - Report of inspection on MLC,2006
01330 - Procedure for complaint under MLC,2006
01331 - Collective bargaining agreement
01332 - AIS test report
01333 - Ship specific plans for the recovery of persons from the water
01334 - STS Operation Plan and Records of STS Operations
01335 - Polar Water Operational Manual
01336 - Certificate or documentary evidence of financial security for repatriation
01337 - Certificate or documentary evidence of financial security relating to shipowners liability
01338 - LNG bunker delivery note
01339 - Copy of IGF Code or national regulations
01340 - Statement of Compliance (MARPOL Annex VI)
01342 - IGF Pre-bunkering verification document
- Structural conditions (02101 – 02199)
02101 - Closing devices/watertight doors
02102 - Damage control plan
02103 - Stability/strength/loading information and instruments
02104 - Information on the A/A-max ratio (Ro-ro/passenger ship only)
02105 - Steering gear
02106 - Hull damage impairing seaworthiness
02107 - Ballast, fuel and other tanks
02108 - Electrical installations in general
02109 - Permanent means of access
02110 - Beams, frames, floors-operational damage
02111 - Beams, frames, floors-corrosion
02112 - Hull - corrosion
02113 - Hull - cracking
02114 - Bulkhead - corrosion
02115 - Bulkheads - operational damage
02116 - Bulkheads - cracking
02117 - Decks - corrosion
02118 - Decks - cracking
02119 - Enhanced survey programme (ESP)
02120 - Marking of IMO number
02121 - Cargo area segregation
02122 - Openings to cargo area, doors, ... scuttles
02123 - Wheelhouse - door - window
02124 - Cargo pumproom
02125 - Spaces in cargo areas
02126 - Cargo tank vent system
02127 - Safe access to tanker bows
02129 - Bulkhead strength
02130 - Triangle mark
02132 - Water level detectors on single hold cargo ships
02133 - Asbestos-containing materials
02134 - Loading/Ballast condition
02135 - Beams, frames, floors - construction
02136 - Hull - construction
02137 - Bulkheads - construction
02138 - Decks - construction
02199 - Other (Structural conditions)
- Water or weather-tight conditions (03101 – 03199)
03101 - Overloading
03102 - Freeboard marks
03103 - Railing, gangway, walkway and means for safe passage
03104 - Cargo and other hatchways
03105 - Covers (hatchway-, portable-, tarpaulins, etc.)
03106 - Windows, sidescuttles and deadlights
03107 - Doors
03108 - Ventilators, air pipes, casings
03109 - Machinery space openings
03110 - Manholes/flush scuttles
03111 - Cargo ports and other similar openings
03112 - Scuppers, inlets and discharges
03113 - Bulwarks and freeing ports
03114 - Stowage incl. uprights, lashing, etc (timber)
03199 - Other (load lines)
- Emergency systems (04101 – 04124)
04101 - Public address system
04102 - Emergency fire pump and its pipes
04103 - Emergency, lighting,batteries and switches
04104 - Low level lighting in corridors
04105 - Location of emergency installations
04106 - Emergency steering position com./ compass reading
04107 - Emergency towing arrangements and procedures
04108 - Muster list
04109 - Fire drills
04110 - Abandon ship drills
04111 - Damage control plan
04112 - Shipboard Marine Pollution emergency operations
04113 - Water level indicator
04114 - Emergency source of power - Emergency generator
04115 - Safe areas
04116 - Means of communication between safety centre and other control stations
04117 - Functionality of Safety Systems
04118 - Enclosed space entry and rescue drills
04119 - IGF Code drills and emergency exercises
04120 - Damage control drill for passenger ships
04121 - Crew familiarisation with emergency systems
04122 - Information on passenger counting
04123 - IGF Equipment in general
04124 - Purging/Inerting of bunkering lines discharge in atmosphere
- Radio communications (05101 – 05199)
05101 - Distress messages: obligations and procedures
05102 - Functional requirements
05103 - Main installation
05104 - MF Radio installation
05105 - MF/HF Radio installation
05106 - INMARSAT ship earth station
05107 - Maintenance/duplication of equipment
05108 - Performance standards for radio equipment
05109 - VHF radio installation
05110 - Facilities for reception of marine safety information
05111 - Satellite EPIRB 406 MHz/1.6 GHz
05112 - VHF EPIRB
05113 - SART/AIS-SART
05114 - Reserve source of energy
05115 - Radio log (diary)
05116 - Operation/maintenance
05118 - Operation of GMDSS equipment
05199 - Other (radio communication)
- Cargo operations including equipment (06101 – 06199)
06101 - Cargo Securing Manual
06102 - Grain
06103 - Other cargo/timber/deck/construction
06104 - Lashing material
06105 - Atmosphere testing instruments
06106 - Cargo transfer - Tankers
06107 - Cargo operation
06108 - Cargo density declaration
06109 - Loading instrument
06199 - Other (cargo)
- Fire safety (07101 – 07199)
07101 - Fire prevention structural integrity
07102 - Inert gas system
07103 - Division - decks,bulkheads and penetrations
07104 - Main Vertical zone
07105 - Fire doors/openings in fire-resisting divisions
07106 - Fire detection and alarm system
07107 - Fire patrol
07108 - Ready availability of fire fighting equipment
07109 - Fixed fire extinguishing installation
07110 - Fire fighting equipment and appliances
07111 - Personal equipment for fire safety
07112 - Emergency Escape Breathing Device and disposition
07113 - Fire pumps and its pipes
07114 - Remote Means of control (opening,pumps,ventilation,etc.) Machinery spaces
07115 - Fire-dampers
07116 - Ventilation
07117 - Jacketed high pressure lines
07118 - International shore-connection
07119 - IGF bunkering station, manifold and couplings
07120 - Means of escape
07121 - Crew alarm
07122 - Fire control plan
07123 - Operation of Fire protection systems
07124 - Maintenance of Fire protection systems
07125 - Evaluation of crew performance (fire drills)
07126 - Oil accumulation in engine room
07199 - Other (fire safety)
- Alarms (08101 – 08199)
08101 - General alarm
08102 - Emergency signal
08103 - Fire alarm
08104 - Steering gear alarm
08105 - Engineers' alarm
08106 - Inert gas alarm
08107 - Machinery controls alarm
08108 - UMS - alarms
08109 - Boiler alarm
08110 - Closing water-tight doors alarm
08199 - Other (alarms)
- Safety of navigation (10101 – 10199)
10101 - Pilot ladders and hoist/pilot transfer arrangements
10102 - Type approval equipment
10103 - Radar
10104 - Gyro compass
10105 - Magnetic compass
10106 - Compass correction log
10107 - Automatic radar plotting aid (ARPA)
10109 - Lights, shapes, sound-signals
10110 - Signalling lamp
10111 - Charts
10112 - Electronic charts (ECDIS)
10113 - Automatic Identification System (AIS)
10114 - Voyage data recorder (VDR)/Simplified Voyage data recorder (S-VDR)
10115 - GNSS receiver/terrestrial radio navigation system
10116 - Nautical publications
10117 - Echo sounder
10118 - Speed and distance indicator
10119 - Rudder angle indicator
10120 - Revolution counter
10121 - Variable pitch indicator
10122 - Rate-of-turn indicator
10123 - International code of signals-SOLAS
10124 - Life-saving signals
10125 - Use of the automatic pilot
10126 - Record of drills and testing steering gear
10127 - Voyage or passage plan
10128 - Navigation bridge visibility
10129 - Navigation records
10132 - Communication-SOLAS chap. 5
10133 - Bridge operation
10134 - HSC operation
10135 - Monitoring of voyage or passage plan
10136 - Establishment of working language on board
10137 - Long-range identification and tracking system (LRIT)
10138 - Bridge Navigation Watch Alarm System (BNWAS)
10199 - Other (navigation)
- Life-saving appliances (11101 – 11199)
11101 - Lifeboats
11102 - Lifeboat inventory
11103 - Stowage and provision of lifeboats
11104 - Rescue boats
11105 - Rescue boat inventory
11106 - Fast Rescue Boats
11107 - Stowage of rescue boats
11108 - Inflatable liferafts
11109 - Rigid liferafts
11110 - Stowage and provision of liferafts
11111 - Marine Evacuation System
11112 - Launching arrangements for survival craft
11113 - Launching arrangements for rescue boats
11114 - Helicopter landing and pick-up area
11115 - Means of rescue
11116 - Distress flares
11117 - Lifebuoys including provision and disposition
11118 - Life jackets including provision and disposition
11119 - Immersion suits
11120 - Anti-exposure suits
11121 - Thermal Protective Aids
11122 - Radio life-saving appliances
11123 - Emergency equipment for 2-way communication
11124 - Embarkation arrangement survival craft
11125 - Embarkation arrangements rescue boats
11126 - Means of recovery of life-saving appliances
11127 - Buoyant apparatus
11128 - Line-throwing appliance
11129 - Operational readiness of life-saving appliances
11130 - Evaluation, testing and approval
11131 - On board training and instructions
11132 - Maintenance and inspections
11133 - Personal and group survival equipment
11134 - Operation of life-saving appliances
11135 - Maintenance of life-saving appliances
11199 - Other (life saving)
- Dangerous goods (12101 – 12199)
12101 - Stowage/segregation/packaging dangerous goods
12104 - Dangerous Goods Code
12105 - Temperature control
12106 - Instrumentation
12107 - Fire protection cargo deck area
12108 - Personal protection
12109 - Special requirement
12110 - Tank entry
12112 - Dangerous goods / harmful substances in packaged form
12199 - Other (tankers)
- Propulsion and auxiliary machinery (13101 – 13199)
13101 - Propulsion main engine
13102 - Auxiliary engine
13103 - Gauges, thermometers, etc
13104 - Bilge pumping arrangements
13105 - UMS - Ship
13106 - Insulation wetted through (oil)
13107 - Maintenance procedures for all gas related installations
13108 - Operation of machinery
13199 - Other (machinery)
- Pollution prevention (14101 – 14899)
MARPOL Annex I
14101 - Control of discharge
14102 - Retention of oil on board
14103 - Segregation of oil and water ballast
14104 - Oil filtering equipment
14105 - Pumping, piping and discharge arrangements
14106 - Pump-room bottom protection
14107 - Oil discharge monitoring and control system
14108 - 15 PPM alarm arrangements
14109 - Oil/water interface detector
14110 - Standard discharge connection
14111 - SBT, CBT, COW
14112 - Cow operations and equipment manual
14113 - Double hull construction
14114 - Hydrostatically balanced loading
14115 - Condition assessment scheme
14116 - Pollution report-MARPOL Annex I
14117 - Ship type designation
14119 - Oil and oily mixtures from machinery spaces
14120 - Loading, unloading and cleaning procedures for cargo spaces of tankers
14121 - Suspected discharge violation
14122 - Oil fuel tank protection
14123 - Accidental oil outflow performance
14124 - Arctic Region - Prohibited type of fuel carried or used
14199 - Other (MARPOL Annex I)
MARPOL Annex II
14201 - Efficient stripping
14202 - Residue discharge systems
14203 - Tank-washing equipment
14204 - Prohibited discharge of NLS slops
14205 - Cargo heating systems - cat Y substances
14206 - Ventilation procedures/equipment
14207 - Pollution report-MARPOL Annex II
14208 - Ship type designation
14299 - Other (MARPOL Annex II)
MARPOL Annex III
14301 - Packaging
14302 - Marking and labelling
14303 - Documentation (MARPOL Annex III)
14304 - Stowage
14399 - Other (MARPOL Annex III)
MARPOL annex IV
14402 - Sewage treatment plant
14403 - Sewage comminuting and disinfecting system
14404 - Sewage discharge connection
14405 - Crew training and familiarization
14499 - Other (MARPOL Annex IV)
MARPOL annex V
14501 - Garbage
14502 - Placards
14503 - Garbage management plan
14599 - Other (MARPOL Annex V)
MARPOL annex VI
14601 - Technical files and if applicable, monitoring manual
14602 - Record book of engine parameters
14603 - Approval for exhaust gas cleaning system
14604 - Bunker delivery notes
14605 - Type approval certificate of incinerator
14606 - Diesel engine relating to air pollution control
14607 - Quality of fuel oil
14608 - Incinerator incl.operations and operating manual
14609 - Volatile organic compounds in tankers
14610 - Operational procedures for engines or equipment
14611 - Ozone-depleting substances
14612 - SOx records
14613 - Approved method
14614 - Sulphur oxides
14615 - Fuel change-over procedure
14616 - Alternative arrangements (SOx)
14617 - Sulphur content of fuel used
14699 - Other (MARPOL Annex VI)
Anti fouling
14701 - AFS supporting documentation
14702 - Logbook entries referring AFS
14703 - Paint condition
14799 - Other (AFS)
Ballast Water
14801 - Ballast Water Management Plan
14802 - Ballast Water Record Book
14803 - Construction dates applicable for BWM
14804 - Ballast Water Exchange
14805 - Sediment removal and disposal
14806 - Crew Training and familiarisation
14807 - Performance standard not met
14808 - Prototype ballast water treatment
14809 - Conditions for exemptions
14810 - Ballast Water Discharge violation in port
14811 - Ballast Water Management System
14899 - Other (Ballast Water Management)
- ISM (15101 – 16101)
15101 - Safety and environment policy
15102 - Company responsibility and authority
15103 - Designated person(s)
15104 - Masters responsibility and authority
15105 - Resources and personnel
15106 - Shipboard operations
15107 - Emergency preparedness
15108 - Reports of non-conformities, accidents and hazardous occurrences
15109 - Maintenance of the ship and equipment
15110 - Documentation-ISM
15111 - Company verification, review and evaluation
15112 - Certification, verification and control
15150 - Multiple Elements of the ISM code
15199 - Other (ISM)
16100 - ISPS
16101 - Security-related defects
- Labour conditions (18101 – 18499)
Minimum requirements for seafarers
18101 - Minimum age
18102 - Night working
18103 - Medical fitness
18104 - Recruitment and placement service
18199 - Other (minimum requirements)
Conditions of employment
18201 - Fitness for duty - work and rest hours
18202 - Legal documentation on work and rest hours - (18202)
18203 - Wages
18204 - Calculation and payment of wages
18205 - Measures to ensure transmission to seafarer's family
18299 - Other (conditions of employment)
Accommodation, recreational facilities, food and catering
18301 - Noise, vibration and other ambient factors
18302 - Sanitary Facilities
18303 - Drainage
18304 - Lighting (Accommodation)
18305 - Hospital accommodation (Sickbay)
18306 - Sleeping room, additional spaces
18307 - No direct openings into sleeping rooms cargo/mach
18308 - Furnishings
18309 - Berth dimensions, etc.
18310 - Minimum headroom
18311 - Messroom and recreational facilities
18312 - Galley, handling room (maintenance)
18313 - Cleanliness
18314 - Provisions quantity
18315 - Provisions quality and nutritional value
18316 - Water, pipes, tanks
18317 - Food personal hygiene
18318 - Food temperature
18319 - Food segregation
18320 - Record of inspection (food and catering)
18321 - Heating, air conditioning and ventilation
18322 - Insulation
18323 - Office
18324 - Cold room, cold room cleanliness, cold room temperature
18325 - Training and qualification of ship's cook
18326 - Laundry, Adequate Locker
18327 - Ventilation (Working spaces)
18328 - Record of inspection
18399 - Other (accommodation, recreational facilities)
Health protection, medical care, social security
18401 - Medical Equipment, medical chest, medical guide
18402 - Access to on shore medical doctor or dentist
18403 - Standard medical report form
18404 - Medical doctor or person in charge of medical care
18405 - Medical advice by radio or satellite
18406 - Medical care on board or ashore free of charge
18407 - Lighting (Working spaces)
18408 - Electrical
18409 - Dangerous areas
18410 - Gas instruments
18411 - Emergency cleaning devices
18412 - Personal equipment
18413 - Warning notices
18414 - Protection machines/parts
18415 - Entry dangerous spaces
18416 - Ropes and wires
18417 - Anchoring devices
18418 - Winches & capstans
18419 - Adequate lighting - mooring arrangements
18420 - Cleanliness of engine room
18421 - Guards - fencing around dangerous machinery parts
18422 - Asbestos fibres
18423 - Preventative information
18424 - Steam pipes, pressure pipes, wires (insulation)
18425 - Access / structural features (ship)
18426 - Exposure to harmful levels of ambient factors
18427 - Ship's occupational safety and health policies and programmes
18428 - On board programme for the prevention of occupational injuries and diseases
18429 - Procedure for inspection, reporting and correcting unsafe conditions and for investigating and reporting on-board occupational accidents
18430 - Ship's safety committee
18431 - Investigation after accident
18432 - Risk evaluation, training and instruction to seafarers
18499 - Other (health protection, medical care)
- Other (99101 – 99103)
99101 - Other (safety in general)
99102 - Other (SOLAS operational)
99103 - Other (MARPOL operational)