Health and Safety on Ships

 

 

Preface
Contents
Figures
Tables
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations and acronyms
Part 1 - General shipboard health and safety
1. General duties and responsibilities

• Introduction
• General duties and responsibilities of competent authorities other than Flag States
• General duties and responsibilities of shipowners
• General duties and responsibilities of the vessel master
• General duties and responsibilities of seafarers
• General duties and responsibilities of the shipboard health and safety committee
• General duties and responsibilities of the ship’s safety officer
• General duties and responsibilities of the safety representative(s)
• Endnotes

2. General shipboard health and safety considerations

• Shipboard housekeeping, personal health and hygiene
• Use of chemicals
• Fire prevention
• Working clothes and personal protective equipment
• Permits to work
• Accident, incident and near miss reporting
• Endnotes

3. Shipboard emergencies and emergency equipment

• Firefighting equipment, drills and training
• Abandoning ship drills and training
• Helicopter operations
• Man overboard and rescue at sea
• Other drills
• Endnotes

4. Carriage of dangerous goods

• Special precautions
• Sources of information and guidance
• Endnotes

5. Means of access, safe movement, and enclosed spaces

• Ship’s accommodation ladders and gangways
• Safe movement around the vessel
• Enclosed and confined spaces
• Additional requirements for entry into a space where the atmosphere is suspect or known to be unsafe
• Endnotes

6. Manual handling, tools, and deck maintenance

• Manual handling
• Work tools
• Workshop and bench machines (fixed installations)
• Compressed air and gases
• Welding and other hot work
• Painting and chipping
• Endnotes

7. Dangerous working conditions

• Working at height and or overboard
• Working at height equipment
• Working with electricity and electrical equipment
• Working with dangerous and irritating substances and radiation
• Endnotes

Part 2 - Ship sanitation and hygiene
8. Healthy and safe living on board

• International regulations relating to shipboard sanitation
• Ship’s accommodation services and facilities
• Endnotes

9. Shipboard water management

• Potable water
• Bottled water and ice
• 10. Water safety management and planning
• Guidelines

11. Food management

• International Health Regulations (2005)
• Food safety plans and hazard analysis and critical control points (HACCP)
• Guidelines

12. Galley and mess facilities

• Training and examination of ship’s cooks and galley staff
• Division of responsibilities and obligations
• Food and galley hygiene
• Nutrition and health
• Other basic skills
• Workplace safety and health
• Galley waste management
• Endnotes

13. Recreational water environments

• Recreational water environments guidelines
• Close when in port

14. Ballast water management

• Standards
• Guidelines

15. Waste management and disposal

• Standards
• Guidelines

16. Reservoir and vector control

• Standards
• Guidelines

17. Control of infectious diseases

• Acute infectious gastrointestinal illnesses
• Acute respiratory illnesses
• Guidelines

Part 3 - Prevention of heat and cold stress injuries at sea

18. Physiology of heat stress

• Heat transfer and the human body
• Environmental heat stress factors
• Individual heat stress factors
• Heat stress vs. heat strain
• Temperature measurement
• Thermometers
• Endnotes

19. Diagnosis of heat stress injuries

• Heat rash (miliaria rubra)
• Erythema ab igne (erythema caloricum)
• Exertional hyperthermia
• Heat syncope
• Heat edema
• Heat tetany
• Heat cramps
• Heat exhaustion
• Heat stroke
• Endnotes

20. Treatment of heat stress injuries

• Monitoring of health after heat stroke recovery
• Care of residual disability or deficits after heat stroke
• Re-exposure to heat
• Reporting
• Prevention of further heat stress injuries in the population
• General treatment of heat stroke
• Clinical treatment of heat stroke
• Endnotes

21. Physiology of cold stress and prevention of cold stress injuries

• Heat transfer or loss of heat from the human body
• Cold stress, cold strain, and cold injury
• Environmental cold stress factors
• Effects of cold water immersion
• Survival times in cold water
• Contact and handling of cold objects
• Individual cold stress factors
• Compensation for cold environments
• Metabolism
• Acclimatisation
• Measurement of cold stress effects on the body
• Identifying risk factors
• Endnotes

22. Diagnosis and treatment of cold stress injuries

• Dermatological (skin) injuries
• Injuries of the extremities due to cold exposure
• Ocular (eye) injuries due to cold exposure
• Hypothermia
• Responding to extreme cases of hypothermia
• Prevention of further heat stress injuries in the population
• Endnotes

23. Summary of heat stress injuries prevention and treatment

• Endnotes

Appendix

• Water hazards, control measures and corrective actions

Further information
Further reading
References
Index

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