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ILO Codes of Practice set out practical guidelines for public authorities, employers, workers, enterprises, and specialized occupational safety and health protection bodies (such as enterprise safety committees).

Documents below are relevant to MLC,2006.

• The objectives of this code are:
  • (a) to prevent or reduce the incidence and severity of illness and injury arising from specified hazardous ambient factors at work;
  • (b) to protect workers from hazards or risks to safety and health resulting from exposure to them;
  • (c) to assist and facilitate the improved management of occupational health issues in or about the workplace;
  It seems that the important sections for the shipowner would be “2.2 General responsibility of Employers”

• The objective of this code is to provide practical guidance on safety and health in shipboard work with a view to:
  • (a) preventing accidents, diseases and other harmful effects on the health of seafarers arising from employment on board ship at sea and in port;
  • (b) ensuring that the responsibility for safety and health is understood and remains a priority for all concerned with maritime transport, including governments, shipowners and seafarers; and
  • (c) promoting consultation and cooperation among governments, as well as shipowners' and seafarers' organizations in the improvement of safety and health on board ship.
  The code also provides guidance in the implementation of the provisions of the Prevention of Occupational Accidents to Seafarers Convention, 1970 (No. 134), and Recommendation, 1970 (No. 142), as well as other applicable ILO Conventions and Recommendations.

• These guidelines should contribute to the protection of workers from hazards and to the elimination of work-related injuries, ill health, diseases, incidents and deaths.

  At the level of the organization, the guidelines are intended to:

  • (a) provide guidance regarding the integration of OSH management system elements in the organization as a component of policy and management arrangements; and
  • (b) motivate all members of the organization, particularly employers, owners, managerial staff, workers and their representatives, in applying appropriate OSH management principles and methods to continually improve OSH performance.

These Guidelines are intended to assist competent authorities* to develop tables of shipboard working arrangements and records of seafarers’ hours of work or hours of rest as required by the Seafarers’ Hours of Work and the Manning of Ships Convention, 1996 (No. 180).

And Appendix 3 shows the standardized table as the Table of Seafarers’ Shipboard Working Arrangements and Formats of Records of Seafarers’ Hours of Work or Hours of Rest.

"Guide to Ship Sanitation" by WHO is the official global reference on health requirements for ship construction and operation and is directly referenced in Article 14 of the International Health Regulations.

Its purpose is to standardize the sanitary measures taken in ships, to safeguard the health of travelers and to prevent the spread of infection from one country to another.

This document seems to be a little the part where the shipowner can be used as it is. This document is for understanding the basic idea and the posture of the approach of ILO to OSH.

And, because the flag state might refer especially, it seems that it serves as a reference to the shipowner who intend to work on OSH in the future.

The outline of this Guidance is related to the potential dangers associated with fatigue and ultimately the effect on the health and safety of the personnel working on ships.

This Guidance contain information on the symptoms and causes of fatigue, and address solutions to combat fatigue to improve the associated health problems and help prevent a fatigue related accident from occurring.

The Guidance is composed of Modules each devoted to an interested party.
The modules are as follow:

Requests for the development of international, harmonized standards concerning the medical examination of seafarers have arisen during meetings at the ILO, IMO and WHO. As a result of the several consultations, they had created these guidelines.

These Guidelines are intended for use by competent authorities, medical examiners, shipowners, seafarers' representatives and others concerned with the conduct of medical fitness examinations of seafarer candidates and serving seafarers.

They have been developed to reduce wide differences in medical requirements and examination procedures and to ensure that medical certificates which are issued to seafarers are a valid indicator of their medical fitness for the work they will perform. Ultimately, the aim of the Guidelines is to contribute to improved health and safety at sea.