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Tanker safety - preventing accidental pollution IMO's major function is to make shipping of all types safer, including tankers.  The measures incorporated in the numerous safety conventions and recommendations apply to these as well as other ships - and the safer a ship is, the less likely it is to be involved in an accident.   SOLAS The International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea  ( SOLAS ), 1974 includes special requirements for tankers.  Fire safety provisions, for example, are much more stringent for tankers than ordinary dry cargo ships, since the danger of fire on board ships carrying oil and refined products is much greater. Inert gas systems It is not just fire which is dangerous - in certain circumstances a single spark can cause a disaster, for even tanks which contain no oil are filled with flammable gas which can explode unless proper procedures are followed. The normal method is to ...

CHAPTER 8 :  SPEC I ALISED SHIPS, TANKERS, CHEM I CAL CARR I ERS, LIQUEF I E D GAS CARRIERS, DANGEROUS   GOODS AND OFFSHORE INSTALLATIONS 8.1        Fire sa f e t y measu r es for tankers 8.1.1   Application 8.1.1.1 This section concerns details, relevant to fire protection on tankers and tanker safety as a whole, which are not speci f ically dealt with el s ewhere in these Instructions or in the regulations. It m a y also be appli c able to ships whi c h are not normally operated as tankers but w h ich may be engaged in the carriage of flammable liquids in bulk. 8.1.1.2 SOLAS I Reg 2 defines a tanker as “a cargo ship constructed or adapted for the carriage in bulk of liquid cargoes of an inflam m abl e 1 nature”. SOLAS II-2 Reg 1.6.1    clarifies t he meaning   of  ‘inflam m able/f l ammable’    by         stating ...