ISO 30000 specifies requirements for a management system to enable a ship recycling facility to develop and implement procedures, policies, and objectives in order to undertake safe and environmentally sound ship recycling operations. The Management system requirements take into account the relevant legal requirements, safety standards, and environmental elements that the ship recycling facility needs to identify and comply with to ensure safe and environmentally sound ship recycling.

ISO 30000 applies to the entire process, accepting a ship for recycling by the facility, assessing the hazards onboard the ship, identifying and complying with any applicable notification and import requirements for ships to be recycled, ensuring the availability of social amenities (e.g. first aid, health checks, food, and beverages); storage and processing of materials and wastes from the ship; waste stream and recycling stream management, including contractual agreements; and documentation controls for the process, including any applicable notification of the final disposal of the vessel for the process of product ISO 30000 is applicable to any ship recycling facility that wishes to:

• Establish, implement, maintain and improve a safe and environmentally sound management system for the recycling of ships,
• Assure itself of conformity with its stated safe and environmentally sound management policy,
• Demonstrate conformity with ISO 30000 by making a self-determination and self-declaration,
• Seeking confirmation of its conformance by parties having an interest in the facility such as customers,
• Seeking confirmation of its self-declaration by a party external to the organization,
• Seeking certification/registration of its management system by an external organization,