Qhse Document
F5. The Reference Layer: Glossary, Units, Signals and Information SourcesDefinition
Quality, Health, Safety, Environment shipboard documentation.
A QHSE document is any controlled document in a ship operator’s combined Quality, Health, Safety, and Environment management system: policies, procedures, checklists, and records spanning the ISM Code safety management system, ISO 9001 quality management, ISO 14001 environmental management, and occupational health and safety. Operators integrate these so one document set serves overlapping audits. ISM Code paragraph 11 requires documents to be controlled: valid versions available at relevant locations and obsolete ones promptly removed. QHSE is a management-system label, not itself a statutory certificate.
Source: ISM Code para 11 (document control); ISO 9001:2015 / ISO 14001:2015 management system standards.