23/07/2016
The Common Marine Inspection Document (CMID), IMCA M 149, provides a standard format for inspection of offshore vessels. Its use helps promote safety and efficiency and can help reduce the number of repeat inspections on individual marine vessels.
The inspection should be planned and undertaken in liaison with the vessel owner and should be undertaken by a competent inspector. Vessel charterers and clients may consider the inspection report before commissioning any further inspections. As a 'living' document, the CMID may be kept and updated on board a vessel, thus reducing the time involved in an audit.
The CMID is regularly reviewed and updated in the light of regulatory and technical developments. A major review of the CMID was undertaken in May 2011 by a cross-industry workgroup with input provided by contractors (vessel operators), charterers, consultants and other interested parties resulting in the release of issue 7. Since then issue 8 (2011), issue 9 (2015) and issue 10 (July 2016) have been published.