Non IMO Conventions and Regulations Summary

General Requirements For Accommodation• Free height h ≥ 203 cm• In ships other than passenger ships, sleeping rooms shall besituated above the load line amidships or aft• In exceptional cases, sleeping rooms may be located in thefore part of the ship, but in no case forward of the collisionbulkhead• There shall be no direct openings into sleeping rooms fromcargo and machinery spaces or from galleys, storerooms,drying rooms or communal sanitary areasM.VenturaNon-IMO Conventions andRegulations15Requirements For Ventilation And Heating• Sleeping rooms and mess rooms shall be adequately ventilated• Ships, shall be equipped with air conditioning for seafareraccommodation, for any separate radio room and for anycentralized machinery control room• All sanitary spaces shall have ventilation to the open air,independently of any other part of the accommodation• Adequate heat through an appropriate heating system shall beprovided, except in ships exclusively on voyages in tropicalclimates.M.VenturaNon-IMO Conventions andRegulations168