Guidelines
Guidelines on Earthing Systems for Ships and Offshore Structures, September 2024 
Guidelines on LPG Fuelled Vessels, July 2024
Guidelines on Shipbuilding and Remedial Quality Standard for Machinery Piping Systems, July 2024
Guidelines on Remote Surveys - Revision 3, March 2024
Guidelines on Maritime Cyber Safety – Revision 1, March 2024
Guidelines on Risk Based Inspections for Hulls of Floating Offshore Units, March 2024
Guidelines on Lifting Appliances – Revision 1, July 2024
Guidelines on Use of Biofuels on Ships, December 2023
Guidelines on Underwater Radiated Noise and Measurements, July 2023
Guidelines on Biofouling Management, December 2022
Guidelines on Ammonia Fueled Vessels, December 2022
Guidelines on Approval of High Manganese Austenitic Steel for Cryogenic Service, September 2022
Guidelines on Vessels with Fuel Cell Power Installations (Provisional), Revision 1, September 2022
Guidelines on Qualification Scheme for Welders of Aluminium Alloys, July 2022
Guidelines on Construction and Classification of Fixed Offshore Wind Turbine Installations (Provisional), July 2022
Guidelines on Continuous Surveys of Machinery, March 2022
Guidelines on Remotely Operated Vessels and Autonomous Surface Vessels, Revision 1, December 2022
Guidelines on Hull Structure of Thermoplastic Vessels (Provisional) - Revision 1, September 2024
Guidelines on Fatigue Design Assessment of Ship Structures – 2021
Guidelines on Structural Assessment of Ships carrying Asphalt in Independent Cargo - Tanks - 2020
Guidelines on Application of Direct Sea‐keeping Loads in Structural Analysis of Ships - 2020
Guidelines on Structural Assessment of Ships based on Finite Element Method- 2020
Guidelines on High Voltage Shore Connection Systems for Ships -2020
Guidelines on Spectral Fatigue Analysis of Ship Structures - 2020
Guidelines on Battery Powered Vessels - Revision 1, July 2024
Guidelines on Alternative and Risk Based Design Evaluation - 2019
Guidelines on Certification of Software for Computer Based Control Systems - 2019
Guidelines on Methanol Fueled Vessels - Revision 03 - December 2021
Cyber Safety Guidelines for land based installations can be provided upon request. Kindly send an email to rules_development@irclass.org to get a copy of the same.
Guidelines on Ballast Water Management 2018
Guidelines on Operational Assessment of Polar Ships, 2017