SAMI Briefing Maritime Labour Convention FAQs and Text March 2013

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Health protection, medical care, welfare and social security protectionplay an active role, including through such means as information sessions, on-boardguidelines on maximum exposure levels to potentially harmful ambient workplace factorsand other hazards or outcomes of a systematic risk evaluation process. In particular,national or local joint occupational safety and health protection and accident preventioncommittees or ad hoc working parties and on-board committees, on which shipowners’and seafarers’ organizations concerned are represented, should be established.3. Where such activity takes place at company level, the representation of seafarerson any safety committee on board that shipowner’s ships should be considered.Guideline B4.3.8 – Content of protection and prevention programmes1. Consideration should be given to including the following in the functions ofthe committees and other bodies referred to in Guideline B4.3.7, paragraph 2:(a) the preparation of national guidelines and policies for occupational safety andhealth management systems and for accident prevention provisions, rulesand manuals;(b) the organization of occupational safety and health protection and accident preventiontraining and programmes;(c) the organization of publicity on occupational safety and health protection and accidentprevention, including films, posters, notices and brochures; and(d) the distribution of literature and information on occupational safety and healthprotection and accident prevention so that it reaches seafarers on board ships.2. Relevant provisions or recommendations adopted by the appropriatenational authorities or organizations or international organizations should be takeninto account by those preparing texts of occupational safety and health protection andaccident prevention measures or recommended practices.3. In formulating occupational safety and health protection and accident preventionprogrammes, each Member should have due regard to any code of practiceconcerning the safety and health of seafarers which may have been published by theInternational Labour Organization.Guideline B4.3.9 – Instruction in occupational safety and health protectionand the prevention of occupational accidents1. The curriculum for the training referred to in Standard A4.3, paragraph 1(a),should be reviewed periodically and brought up to date in the light of development intypes and sizes of ships and in their equipment, as well as changes in manning practices,nationality, language and the organization of work on board ships.2. There should be continuous occupational safety and health protection andaccident prevention publicity. Such publicity might take the following forms:(a) educational audiovisual material, such as films, for use in vocational training centresfor seafarers and where possible shown on board ships;(b) display of posters on board ships;(c) inclusion in periodicals read by seafarers of articles on the hazards of maritimeemployment and on occupational safety and health protection and accident preventionmeasures; and(d) special campaigns using various publicity media to instruct seafarers, includingcampaigns on safe working practices.65
Maritime Labour Convention, 20063. The publicity referred to in paragraph 2 of this Guideline should take accountof the different nationalities, languages and cultures of seafarers on board ships.Guideline B4.3.10 – Safety and health education of young seafarers1. Safety and health regulations should refer to any general provisions on medicalexaminations before and during employment and on the prevention of accidentsand the protection of health in employment, which may be applicable to the work ofseafarers. Such regulations should specify measures which will minimize occupationaldangers to young seafarers in the course of their duties.2. Except where a young seafarer is recognized as fully qualified in a pertinentskill by the competent authority, the regulations should specify restrictions on youngseafarers undertaking, without appropriate supervision and instruction, certain typesof work presenting special risk of accident or of detrimental effect on their health orphysical development, or requiring a particular degree of maturity, experience or skill.In determining the types of work to be restricted by the regulations, the competentauthority might consider in particular work involving:(a) the lifting, moving or carrying of heavy loads or objects;(b) entry into boilers, tanks and cofferdams;(c) exposure to harmful noise and vibration levels;(d) operating hoisting and other power machinery and tools, or acting as signallersto operators of such equipment;(e) handling mooring or tow lines or anchoring equipment;(f) rigging;(g) work aloft or on deck in heavy weather;(h) nightwatch duties;(i) servicing of electrical equipment;(j) exposure to potentially harmful materials, or harmful physical agents such asdangerous or toxic substances and ionizing radiations;(k) the cleaning of catering machinery; and(l) the handling or taking charge of ships’ boats.3. Practical measures should be taken by the competent authority or throughthe appropriate machinery to bring to the attention of young seafarers informationconcerning the prevention of accidents and the protection of their health on boardships. Such measures could include adequate instruction in courses, official accidentprevention publicity intended for young persons and professional instruction andsupervision of young seafarers.4. Education and training of young seafarers both ashore and on board shipsshould include guidance on the detrimental effects on their health and well-being ofthe abuse of alcohol and drugs and other potentially harmful substances, and the riskand concerns relating to HIV/AIDS and of other health risk related activities.Guideline B4.3.11 – International cooperation1. Members, with the assistance as appropriate of intergovernmental and otherinternational organizations, should endeavour, in cooperation with each other, toachieve the greatest possible uniformity of action for the promotion of occupationalsafety and health protection and prevention of accidents.66
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certificate and DMLC should be the
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Explanatory note to the Regulations
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