Within a continuing process of revision of publications that are relevant to the IMDG Code, The EmS Guide: Emergency Response Procedures for Ships Carrying Dangerous Goods has been further amended at the eighty-first session of MSC in May 2008 and the details have been described in MSC.1/Circ.1262. The International Code for the Safe Carriage of Packaged Irradiated Nuclear Fuel, Plutonium and High- Level Radioactive Wastes on board Ships has also been amended by resolution MSC.241(83).
The Supplement also includes texts of the Medical First Aid Guide, descriptions of the reporting procedures for incidents involving dangerous goods, harmful substances and/or marine pollutants, the IMO/ILO/UNECE Guidelines for Packing of Cargo Transport Units, the Recommendations on the Safe Use of Pesticides in Ships and other appropriate Assembly resolutions, resolutions and Circulars of the Maritime Safety Committee and Circulars of the Facilitation Committee and of the Sub-Committee on Dangerous Goods, Solid Cargoes and Containers.