SAMI Briefing Maritime Labour Convention FAQs and Text March 2013

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Accommodation, recreational facilities, food and catering5. Every effort should be given to ensuring that the forwarding of seafarers’mail is as reliable and expeditious as possible. Efforts should also be considered foravoiding seafarers being required to pay additional postage when mail has to be readdressedowing to circumstances beyond their control.6. Measures should be considered to ensure, subject to any applicable nationalor international laws or regulations, that whenever possible and reasonable seafarersare expeditiously granted permission to have their partners, relatives and friends asvisitors on board their ship when in port. Such measures should meet any concerns forsecurity clearances.7. Consideration should be given to the possibility of allowing seafarers to beaccompanied by their partners on occasional voyages where this is practicable andreasonable. Such partners should carry adequate insurance cover against accidentand illness; the shipowners should give every assistance to the seafarer to effect suchinsurance.Guideline B3.1.12 – Prevention of noise and vibration1. Accommodation and recreational and catering facilities should be located asfar as practicable from the engines, steering gear rooms, deck winches, ventilation,heating and air-conditioning equipment and other noisy machinery and apparatus.2. Acoustic insulation or other appropriate sound-absorbing materials shouldbe used in the construction and finishing of bulkheads, deckheads and decks within thesound-producing spaces as well as self-closing noise-isolating doors for machineryspaces.3. Engine rooms and other machinery spaces should be provided, whereverpracticable, with soundproof centralized control rooms for engine-room personnel.Working spaces, such as the machine shop, should be insulated, as far as practicable,from the general engine-room noise and measures should be taken to reduce noise inthe operation of machinery.4. The limits for noise levels for working and living spaces should be in conformitywith the ILO international guidelines on exposure levels, including those in theILO code of practice entitled Ambient factors in the workplace, 2001, and, whereapplicable, the specific protection recommended by the International MaritimeOrganization, and with any subsequent amending and supplementary instruments foracceptable noise levels on board ships. A copy of the applicable instruments in Englishor the working language of the ship should be carried on board and should be accessibleto seafarers.5. No accommodation or recreational or catering facilities should be exposed toexcessive vibration.Regulation 3.2 – Food and cateringPurpose: To ensure that seafarers have access to good quality food and drinking waterprovided under regulated hygienic conditions1. Each Member shall ensure that ships that fly its flag carry on board and servefood and drinking water of appropriate quality, nutritional value and quantity that51
Maritime Labour Convention, 2006adequately covers the requirements of the ship and takes into account the differing culturaland religious backgrounds.2. Seafarers on board a ship shall be provided with food free of charge duringthe period of engagement.3. Seafarers employed as ships’ cooks with responsibility for food preparationmust be trained and qualified for their position on board ship.Standard A3.2 – Food and catering1. Each Member shall adopt laws and regulations or other measures to provideminimum standards for the quantity and quality of food and drinking water and for thecatering standards that apply to meals provided to seafarers on ships that fly its flag,and shall undertake educational activities to promote awareness and implementationof the standards referred to in this paragraph.2. Each Member shall ensure that ships that fly its flag meet the following minimumstandards:(a) food and drinking water supplies, having regard to the number of seafarers onboard, their religious requirements and cultural practices as they pertain to food,and the duration and nature of the voyage, shall be suitable in respect of quantity,nutritional value, quality and variety;(b) the organization and equipment of the catering department shall be such as topermit the provision to the seafarers of adequate, varied and nutritious mealsprepared and served in hygienic conditions; and(c) catering staff shall be properly trained or instructed for their positions.3. Shipowners shall ensure that seafarers who are engaged as ships’ cooks aretrained, qualified and found competent for the position in accordance with requirementsset out in the laws and regulations of the Member concerned.4. The requirements under paragraph 3 of this Standard shall include a completionof a training course approved or recognized by the competent authority, whichcovers practical cookery, food and personal hygiene, food storage, stock control, andenvironmental protection and catering health and safety.5. On ships operating with a prescribed manning of less than ten which, by virtueof the size of the crew or the trading pattern, may not be required by the competentauthority to carry a fully qualified cook, anyone processing food in the galley shall betrained or instructed in areas including food and personal hygiene as well as handlingand storage of food on board ship.6. In circumstances of exceptional necessity, the competent authority may issuea dispensation permitting a non-fully qualified cook to serve in a specified ship for aspecified limited period, until the next convenient port of call or for a period not exceedingone month, provided that the person to whom the dispensation is issued istrained or instructed in areas including food and personal hygene as well as handlingand storage of food on board ship.7. In accordance with the ongoing compliance procedures under Title 5, thecompetent authority shall require that frequent documented inspections be carried outon board ships, by or under the authority of the master, with respect to:52
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supervisory system (a system establ
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authority?] as qualified to issue s
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(b) facilities for sports and outdo
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agreed upon international standards
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provisions of Regulation 5.1.3 and
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(b)(c)to carry out any examination,
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prevents ships being delayed by unn
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certificate and DMLC should be the
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INTERNATIONAL LABOUR CONFERENCECont
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