An Inventory of Hazardous Materials (IHM) is a document that lists all hazardous materials present on a ship. It helps ensure safe and environmentally sound recycling by identifying substances that need special handling or disposal. The IHM is crucial for compliance with IMO Hong Kong Ship Recycling Convention, the EU Ship Recycling Regulation, and the UK Ship Recycling Regulation.

Why choose LR?

Our well established IHM service offers reputable and consistent global service delivery, helping to promote better hazard management and sustainable ship recycling. Since 2004, thousands of ships spanning both new construction and in service have entrusted LR to provide inventory certification services.

What we offer?

LR offers end-to-end IHM services to both LR and non-LR classed ships. We provide an intuitive and competitively priced approval, verification, and certification service to ensure compliance with EU and HK legislation – for both newbuilds and existing ships.

  • Access to LR approved Hazardous Material Expert companies: We have a list of independently LR approved companies who can provide you with expert IHM compilation and hazardous materials sampling/testing services against legislative requirements. To date we have checked and approved the procedures and operations of around 40 Hazardous Material expert companies.

  •  An easily editable IHM template: Our simple, tried and tested IHM template is carefully designed against legislative requirements and allows easy compilation and maintenance of the IHM.

  • LR experts every step of the way: A specialist from our dedicated IHM Approval Teams then takes care of the desktop approval, and finally a surveyor local to the vessel undertakes onboard verification and certification.

  • Certification: We will issue a statutory certificates (or Statements of compliance where appropriate) for IMO HKSRC, UK SRR, EU SRR.