Code of Safety for Fishermen and Fishing Vessels, 2005 Part A - Safety and Health Practices for Skippers and Crews
The revised Code was approved by the Maritime Safety Committee (MSC) at its seventy-ninth session in 2004, by the FAO Committee on Fisheries at its twenty-sixth session in 2005 and by the Governing Body of International Labour Organization (ILO) at its 293rd Session in 2005. It is divided into two parts (sold separately):
- Part A ? Safety and Health Practices for Skippers and Crews, 2005
- Part B ? Safety and Health Requirements for the Construction and Equipment of Fishing Vessels, 2005
Introduction
Section I - General
Chapter 1 - General provisions
Chapter 2 - Duties and responsibilities
Chapter 3 - Education, training, safety awareness and related issues
Chapter 4 - Health and medical care
Section II - Undecked vessels and decked vessels of less than 12 m in length
Chapter 1 - Safety of the vessel
Chapter 2 - Safety in machinery spaces and of mechanical equipment
Chapter 3 - Fire precautions and fire fighting
Chapter 4 - Safety in fishing operations and fish handling
Chapter 5 - Safety in exposed areas
Chapter 6 - Special safety precautions
Chapter 7 - Life-saving appliances and emergencies
Chapter 8 - Abandoning vessel, survival and rescue
Chapter 9 - Safety of navigation and radiocommunications
Chapter 10 - Shipboard facilities for crew members
Chapter 11 - Health and medical care
Section III - Decked vessels of 12 m in length and over
Chapter 1 - Safety of the vessel
Chapter 2 - Safety in machinery spaces and of mechanical equipment
Chapter 3 - Fire precautions and fire fighting
Chapter 4 - Safety in fishing operations and fish handling
Chapter 5 - Safety in exposed areas
Chapter 6 - Special safety precautions
Chapter 7 - Life-saving appliances and emergencies
Chapter 8 - Abandoning vessel, survival and rescue
Chapter 9 - Safety of navigation and radiocommunications
Chapter 10 - Shipboard facilities for crew members
Chapter 11 - Health and medical care
Annex - Appendices to part A of the Code of Safety for Fishermen and Fishing Vessels, 2005
Appendix 1 - Safety assessment and management
Appendix 2 - Fatigue
Appendix 3 - First aid and medical care
Appendix 4 - Artificial respiration
Appendix 5 - Survival from sudden, unexpected immersion in cold water
Appendix 6 - Approximate determination of small vessel?s stability by means of the rolling period tests
Appendix 7 - An approximate determination of vessel?s stability by means of the rolling period tests (for vessels up to 70 m in length)
Appendix 8 - Crossing sand bars and beach landings
Appendix 9 - Guidance to the skipper for avoiding dangerous situations in following and quartering seas
Appendix 10 - Recommendation for skippers of fishing vessels on ensuring a vessel?s endurance in conditions of ice formation
Appendix 11 - Refrigeration systems using toxic refrigerants such as ammonia
Appendix 12 - Safe navigation and avoidance of dangerous situations
Appendix 13 - Electronic chart systems - differences
Appendix 14 - METAREAs/NAVAREAs
Appendix 15 - Regulation 32 of chapter V of the International Convention on the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS), 1974, as amended
Appendix 16 - A brief description of the global maritime distress and safety system (GMDSS)
Appendix 17 - Radiotelephony procedures
Appendix 18 - Food and hygiene on board fishing vessels
Appendix 19 - Helicopter evacuation
Appendix 20 - Annotated list of pertinent publications
Index
IMO
As a specialised agency of the United Nations, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) is the global standard-setting authority for the safety, security and environmental performance of international shipping. Its main role is to create a regulatory framework for the shipping industry that is fair and effective, universally adopted and universally implemented.
In other words, its role is to create a level playing field so that ship operators cannot address their financial issues by simply cutting corners and compromising on safety, security and environmental performance. This approach also encourages innovation and efficiency.
Shipping is a truly international industry, and it can only operate effectively if the regulations and standards are themselves agreed, adopted and implemented on an international basis. And IMO is the forum at which this process takes place.