Code of Safe Working Practices for Merchant Seafarers 2015 Edition - Amendment 5/Кодекс безопасных методов работы для моряков торгового флота Издание 2015 года - Поправка 5

This Code is published by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) and endorsed by the National Maritime Occupational Health and Safety Committee, UK Chamber of Shipping, Nautilus International and the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) as best practice guidance for improving health and safety on board ship. It is intended primarily for merchant seafarers on UK-registered ships.
The Code is addressed to everyone on a ship regardless of rank or rating, and to those ashore responsible for safety, because the recommendations can be effective only if they are understood by all and if everyone cooperates in their implementation. Those not actually engaged in a job in hand should be aware of what is being done, so that they may avoid putting themselves at risk or causing risk to others by impeding or needlessly interfering with the conduct of their work.

Contents
About this Code
Chapter 1 Managing occupational health and safety
1.1 Introduction
1.2 What does a safe working culture look like?
Annex 1.1 Management of change
Annex 1.2 Five steps to risk assessment
Annex 1.3 Risk assessment form: example 1
Annex 1.4 Risk assessment form: example 2
Chapter 2 Safety induction
2.1 General
2.2 Emergency procedures and fire precautions
2.3 Accidents and medical emergencies
2.4 Health and hygiene
2.5 Good housekeeping
2.6 Environmental responsibilities
2.7 Occupational health and safety
2.8 Company and worker responsibilities
2.9 Consultation procedures
Chapter 3 Living on board
3.1 General
3.2 Fitness, health and hygiene
3.3 Smoking
3.4 Medication
3.5 Malaria
3.6 Avoiding the effects of fatigue (tiredness)
3.7 Working in hot or sunny climates and hot environments
3.8 Working in cold climates and environments
3.9 Working clothes
3.10 Shipboard housekeeping
3.11 Substances hazardous to health
3.12 Common personal injuries
3.13 Sunglasses
3.14 Risk from sharps
Chapter 4 Emergency drills and procedures
4.1 Musters and drills
4.2 Fire drills
4.3 Action in the event of fire
4.4 Abandon ship drills
4.5 Action in the event of abandoning ship
4.6 Man overboard drills
4.7 Action in the event of man overboard
4.8 Dangerous (enclosed) space drills
4.9 Action in the event of a dangerous space emergency
4.10 Assisting a casualty
4.11 Drills for leakage and spillage
4.12 Action in the event of a leakage or spillage
4.13 Damage control drills
Annex 4.1 Table of emergency drills and their frequency
Chapter 5 Fire precautions
5.1 General
5.2 Smoking
5.3 Electrical and other fittings
5.4 Spontaneous combustion
5.5 Machinery spaces
5.6 Galleys
Chapter 6 Security on board
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Ship security plans
6.3 Security levels
6.4 Precautions
6.5 Terrorism
6.6 Stowaways
6.7 Piracy and armed robbery
6.8 Smuggling
6.9 Personnel joining and leaving the vessel
Chapter 7 Health surveillance
7.1 Duty of employers
7.2 Purpose of health surveillance
7.3 Application
7.4 What to do
7.5 Seafarers
7.6 Managing health surveillance
7.7 Additional practical guidance on health surveillance for exposure to biological agents
7.8 Reporting of occupational diseases
Chapter 8 Personal protective equipment
8.1 Introduction
8.2 General requirements
8.3 Seafarer duties
8.4 Types of equipment
8.5 Head protection
8.6 Hearing protection
8.7 Face and eye protection
8.8 Respiratory protective equipment
8.9 Hand and foot protection
8.10 Protection from falls
8.11 Body protection
8.12 Protection against drowning
Chapter 9 Safety signs and their use
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Duty to display signs
9.3 Role of the seafarer
9.4 Signs and notices
9.5 Occasional signs
9.6 Electrical wiring
9.7 Gas cylinders
9.8 Pipelines
9.9 Portable fire extinguishers
Annex 9.1 Safety signs as required by the Merchant Shipping and Fishing Vessels (Safety Signs and Signals) Regulations 2001 and MGN 556(M+F)
Chapter 10 Manual handling
10.1 Introduction
10.2 General
10.3 Role of the Company
10.4 Good manual-handling techniques
10.5 Safety for seafarers rigging accommodation and pilot ladders
Annex 10.1 Factors to be considered
Chapter 11 Safe movement on board ship
11.1 Introduction
11.2 General principles
11.3 Drainage
11.4 Transit areas
11.5 Lighting
11.6 Guarding of openings
11.7 Watertight doors
11.8 Stairways, ladders and portable ladders
11.9 Shipboard vehicles
11.10 Entry into dangerous (enclosed) spaces
11.11 Working on deck while ship is at sea
11.12 Adverse weather
11.13 General advice to seafarers
Annex 11.1 Standards for hold access
Annex 11.2 Standards for lighting
Chapter 12 Noise, vibration and other physical agents
12.1 General advice
12.2 Prevention or control of exposure to a physical agent
12.3 Consultation
12.4 Seafarer information and training
12.5 Noise: introduction
12.6 Assessing exposure to noise
12.7 Risk assessment: noise
12.8 Health surveillance: noise
12.9 Noise arising from music and entertainment
12.10 Types of vibration and their effects
12.11 Exposure limits set by the vibration regulations
12.12 Determining vibration levels
12.13 Mitigation
12.14 Mitigation: hand–arm vibration
12.15 Mitigation: whole-body vibration
12.16 Health surveillance and health monitoring: vibration
12.17 Additional guidance
12.18 Other physical agents
Annex 12.1 Examples of typical dB(A) levels
Annex 12.2 Daily exposure to different sound levels
Annex 12.3 Personal hearing protection
Chapter 13 Safety officials
13.1 Introduction
13.2 Employer duties
13.3 Company duties
13.4 Duties of safety officers
13.5 Powers of safety representatives
13.6 Advice to safety representatives
13.7 Advice to safety committees
13.8 Accident investigation
Annex 13.1 Checklist for safety officer’s inspection
Annex 13.2 Voluntary statement
Chapter 14 Permit to work systems
14.1 Introduction
14.2 Permit to work systems
14.3 Sanction to test systems
Annex 14.1 Permits to work
Annex 14.1.1 Permit to work: entry into dangerous (enclosed) space
Annex 14.1.2 Permit to work: working at height/over the side
Annex 14.1.3 Permit to work: general
Annex 14.2 Sanction to test: electrical high voltage (over 1000 volts)
Chapter 15 Entering dangerous (enclosed) spaces
15.1 Introduction
15.2 Duties and responsibilities of a competent person and an authorised officer
15.3 Precautions before entering a dangerous space
15.4 Identifying potential hazards
15.5 Preparing and securing the space for entry
15.6 Testing the atmosphere of the space
15.7 Use of control systems
15.8 Safety precautions before entry
15.9 Procedures and arrangements during entry
15.10 Procedures on completion
15.11 Additional requirements for entry into a space where the atmosphere is suspect or known to be unsafe
15.12 Training, instruction and information
15.13 Breathing apparatus and resuscitation equipment
15.14 Preparation for an emergency
Chapter 16 Hatch covers and access lids
16.1 Introduction
16.2 General
16.3 Mechanical hatch covers
16.4 Non-mechanical hatch covers
16.5 Non-mechanical manually handled hatch covers
16.6 Steel-hinged inspection/access lids
16.7 Access to holds/cargo/other spaces
Chapter 17 Work at height
17.1 Introduction
17.2 General
17.3 Portable ladders
17.4 Cradles and stages
17.5 Bosun’s chair
17.6 Working from punts
17.7 Scaffolding
Annex 17.1 Emergency planning for work at height
Annex 17.2 Requirements for ladders
Annex 17.3 Requirements for rope access and positioning techniques
Annex 17.4 Requirements for scaffolding
Chapter 18 Provision, care and use of work equipment
18.1 General
18.2 Duty of seafarers and workers
18.3 Hand tools
18.4 Risk assessment and specific risks
18.5 Stability of work equipment
18.6 Dangerous parts of work equipment
18.7 Maintenance
18.8 Inspection
18.9 Information and instructions
18.10 Training
18.11 Electrical equipment
18.12 High or very low temperatures
18.13 Controls
18.14 Lighting
18.15 Markings
18.16 Warnings
18.17 Portable power-operated tools and equipment
18.18 Workshop and bench machines (fixed installations)
18.19 Abrasive wheels
18.20 Hydraulic/pneumatic/high-pressure jetting equipment
18.21 Hydraulic jacks
18.22 Use of mobile work equipment
18.23 Carrying of seafarers on mobile work equipment
18.24 Overturning of fork-lift trucks
18.25 Self-propelled work equipment
18.26 Remote-controlled self-propelled work equipment
18.27 Drive units and power take-off shafts
18.28 Ropes and wires
18.29 Characteristics of man-made fibre ropes
18.30 Laundry equipment
Annex 18.1 Conformity with community requirements
Annex 18.2 Bulldog grips
Annex 18.3 Standards for work equipment
Chapter 19 Lifting plant and operations
19.1 Introduction
19.2 General requirements
19.3 Regular maintenance
19.4 Thorough examination and inspection
19.5 Defect reporting and testing: advice to competent persons
19.6 Certificates
19.7 Record of lifting equipment
19.8 Positioning and installation
19.9 Lifting operations
19.10 Safe working load
19.11 Operational safety measures
19.12 Use of winches and cranes
19.13 Use of derricks
19.14 Use of derricks in union purchase
19.15 Use of stoppers
19.16 Overhaul of cargo gear
19.17 Trucks and other vehicles/appliances
19.18 Personnel-lifting equipment, lifts and lift machinery
19.19 Maintenance and testing of lifts
Annex 19.1 Certificates of testing and thorough examination of equipment
Annex 19.1.1 Certificate of test and thorough examination of lifting appliances
Annex 19.1.2 Certificate of test and thorough examination of derricks used in union purchase
Annex 19.1.3 Certificate of test and thorough examination of loose gear
Annex 19.1.4 Certificate of test and thorough examination of wire rope
Annex 19.2 Register of ships’ lifting appliances and cargo-handling gear
Annex 19.3 Code of hand signals
Annex 19.4 Standards
Chapter 20 Work on machinery and power systems
20.1 Introduction
20.2 General
20.3 Work in machinery spaces
20.4 Unmanned machinery spaces
20.5 Maintenance of machinery
20.6 Boilers and thermal oil heaters
20.7 Auxiliary machinery and equipment
20.8 Main engines
20.9 Refrigeration machinery and refrigerated compartments
20.10 Critical equipment
20.11 Steering gear
20.12 Hydraulic and pneumatic equipment
20.13 Electrical equipment
20.14 Main switchboards
20.15 High-voltage systems
20.16 Arc-flash associated with high-and low-voltage equipment
20.17 Storage batteries: general
20.18 Storage batteries: lead acid
20.19 Storage batteries: alkaline
20.20 Work on apparatus on extension runners or on the bench
20.21 Servicing radio and associated electronic equipment: general
20.22 Additional electrical hazards from radio equipment
20.23 Valves and semi-conductor devices
Chapter 21 Hazardous substances and mixtures
21.1 General advice
21.2 Carcinogens and mutagens
21.3 Prevention or control of exposure
21.4 Asbestos dust
21.5 Use of chemical agents
21.6 Dry-cleaning operations
21.7 Safe use of pesticides
21.8 Biological agents
21.9 Solid carbon dioxide
Annex 21.1 Classification of carcinogens and biological agents
Chapter 22 Boarding arrangements
22.1 Introduction
22.2 General principles
22.3 Safety nets
22.4 Use of equipment
22.5 Positioning of boarding equipment
22.6 Portable and rope ladders (excluding pilot ladders)
22.7 Maintenance of equipment for means of access
22.8 Special circumstances
22.9 Access for pilots
22.10 Safe rigging of pilot ladders
22.11 Safe access to small craft
Annex 22.1 Standards for means of access
Annex 22.2 Corrosion and fractures of accommodation ladders and gangways
Chapter 23 Food preparation and handling in the catering department
23.1 Health and hygiene
23.2 Slips, falls and tripping hazards
23.3 Galley stoves, steamboilers and deep fat fryers
23.4 Liquid petroleum gas appliances
23.5 Deep fat frying
23.6 Microwave ovens
23.7 Catering equipment
23.8 Knives, meat saws, choppers, etc.
23.9 Refrigerated rooms and store rooms
Chapter 24 Hot work
24.1 Introduction
24.2 General
24.3 Gas cutting
24.4 Welding
24.5 Personal protective equipment
24.6 Pre-use equipment check
24.7 Electric welding equipment
24.8 Precautions to be taken during electric arc welding
24.9 Compressed gas cylinders
24.10 Gas welding and cutting
24.11 Further information
Annex 24.1 Hot work: lighting up and shutting down procedures
Annex 24.2 Earthing of arc-welding systems’ transformer casing
Annex 24.3 Hot work: hoses and connections/assemblies
Chapter 25 Painting
25.1 Introduction
25.2 Preparation and precautions
25.3 Application of new paint
25.4 Use of paint-spraying equipment
Chapter 26 Anchoring, mooring and towing operations
26.1 Introduction
26.2 Anchoring and weighing anchor
26.3 Making fast and casting off
26.4 Mooring to a buoy
26.5 Towing
26.6 Safe mooring of domestic passenger craft and ships’ launches to quays
Annex 26.1 Complex mooring system, illustrating the snap-back zone
Annex 26.2 The full and safe mooring arrangement for small domestic, passenger craft and launches
Chapter 27 Roll-on/roll-off ferries
27.1 Introduction
27.2 General
27.3 Ventilation
27.4 Fire safety/prevention
27.5 Noise
27.6 Safe movement
27.7 Use of work equipment
27.8 Inspection of vehicles
27.9 Stowage
27.10 Securing of cargo
27.11 Dangerous goods
27.12 Specialised vehicles
27.13 Housekeeping
Chapter 28 Dry cargo
28.1 Stowage of cargo
28.2 Dangerous goods and substances
28.3 Carriage of containers
28.4 Working cargo
28.5 Lighting in cargo spaces
28.6 General precautions for personnel
28.7 Moveable bulkheads in cargo holds
Chapter 29 Tankers and other ships carrying bulk liquid cargoes
29.1 General
29.2 Oil and bulk ore/oil carriers
29.3 Liquefied gas carriers
29.4 Chemical carriers
Chapter 30 Port towage industry
30.1 General
30.2 Watertight integrity
30.3 Testing and inspection of towing equipment
30.4 Connecting and disconnecting the towing gear
30.5 Use of bridle/gog rope during towing operations
30.6 Seafarer safety during towing operations
30.7 Communications
30.8 Interaction
30.9 Escorting
Chapter 31 Ships serving offshore oil and gas installations
31.1 General information
31.2 Responsibilities
31.3 General precautions
31.4 Personal protective equipment
31.5 Communications
31.6 Carriage of cargo
31.7 Bulk cargo operations
31.8 Approaching installation and cargo-handling operations
31.9 Transfer of personnel by ship to/from installation
31.10 Transfer by specialist craft
31.11 Transfer by personnel carrier
31.12 Transfer of personnel by ship to installation by transfer capsule
31.13 Transfer by personal basket
31.14 Transfer of personnel by gangway
31.15 Further guidance
31.16 Anchor handling
Chapter 32 Ships serving offshore renewables installations
32.1 General
32.2 Responsibility for offshore renewables personnel
32.3 Coordination
32.4 Safe means of access to installations
32.5 Carriage and transfer of dangerous cargoes
32.6 Emergency response plans
32.7 Other sources of information
Chapter 33 Ergonomics
33.1 General
33.2 Work with display screen equipment
Annex 33.1 Ergonomics
Appendix 1 Regulations, marine notices and guidance issued by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency
Appendix 2 Other sources of information
Appendix 3 Standards and specifications referred to in this Code
Appendix 4 Acknowledgements
Index