Restricted areas are defined, and entry is limited
Entry is limited to people with a demonstrated reason to be there. A vessel call, a work order or a contract is that reason, with a start and an end.
ISPS · Port facilities & terminals
Restricted areas, and a record of who entered them
The ISPS Code asks a port facility to define restricted areas and verify the identity of everyone entering. It must keep the records its facility security plan specifies, including at a security level escalation.
ISPS
ISPS restricted areas and identity verification
What it demands of physical access
Restricted areas defined, identity verified for everyone entering, and records kept per the facility security plan.
Restricted areas defined, identity verified for everyone entering, and records kept per the facility security plan.
What you put in front of the auditor
Who entered which restricted zone, on which credential, and that the credential was valid at that moment.
Who entered which restricted zone, on which credential, and that the credential was valid at that moment.
In detail
What this means at the door
Identity verified for everyone entering
Including the population you register least: drivers, crew, surveyors and agency dockers who may never have been on the facility before and may never return.
Records kept as the plan requires
The facility security plan sets the record-keeping obligation. Reconstructing that afterwards from a gatehouse logbook is the practice the plan is meant to replace.
Escalation applied immediately
At security level 2 or 3, the population inside the fence has to be known now. That is only true if the grants were already live in 1 place before the escalation, instead of spread across systems and paper.
How Axxession answers it
Evidence produced as it happens
- Access created against the vessel call and scoped to the berth and the quay, and never the whole terminal
- Agents and contracting firms submitting their own people, checked before they travel
- Grants that expire when the call ends, with no withdrawal task and no logbook line to cross out
- The per-call ISPS record produced from the platform, and the live inside-the-fence list on screen
Sectors
Where ISPS bites hardest
Axxession gives you the records ISPS asks for, ready to show an auditor. Compliance itself also rests on your own policies, risk assessment and controls. Nothing here is legal advice.
Questions
Frequently asked questions
How does the ISPS Code affect access control at a terminal?
It requires restricted areas to be defined, and entry limited to people with a demonstrated reason. Identity is verified for everyone entering, and records are kept in line with the facility security plan. With immediate effect when the security level is raised.
Can access be tied to a single vessel call?
Yes, and that is usually the right unit. Access is created against the call, scoped to the berth and the hours, and expires when the vessel sails. Which removes the standing access that otherwise accumulates call after call.
How quickly can we say who is inside the restricted area?
Immediately, provided the grants are governed in one layer above the access systems. The list of who currently holds access to each restricted zone is on screen, instead of being assembled during the escalation.
The first step
Start with 1 site and 1 population.
You judge something that runs on your own site. Your access systems and readers stay where they are. If it earns its place, we extend it site by site.
One siteOne populationYour readers stay