Norwegian Sea Health Conference April 2012

Ron Strathdee Principal Surveyor

• Current legislation

• Gap analysis

• Policy decisions

• Consultation with interested parties

• Legislation decision - new or amend?

• 12 new sets of regulations

• Newsletters/seminar

• Training inspectors

• Trial inspections

What have we done in the last 4 years?

• Sent to UK for approval.

• Tynwald approval to become IOM law.

• Extended to us – needs UK to ratify first.

• Ist November 2012 Start inspections and issuing certification.

• All inspections by our own Isle of Man surveyors.

Merchant Ships >500GRT 433 (including 65 bulk carriers)

Commercial Yacht >24m 100

What happens next?

• Sent to UK for approval. • Tynwald approval to become IOM law. • Extended to us – needs UK to ratify first. • Ist November 2012 Start inspections and issuing

certification. • All inspections by our own Isle of Man surveyors.

Merchant Ships >500GRT 433 (including 65 bulk carriers)

Commercial Yacht >24m 100 •

What happens next?

• Current maritime legislation is all prescriptive.

• MLC legislation will be goal based using the convention requirements as the baseline.

• Isle of Man will produce guidance notes which if followed will be accepted as meeting the IOM requirements.

• Shipowners can develop their own method of showing compliance that may differ from our guidelines.

• This style will avoid the regulations being outdated by new practices and technology.

New style

Recognition of medical certificates

• The Isle of Man Ship Registry does not regulate medical practitioners, or

issue seafarer’s medical certificates.

• There are MCA registered medical practitioners on the Isle of Man who are authorised to carry out medical examinations and issue medical certificates to seafarers on the Isle of Man.

• The Ship Registry will accept medical certificates that have been issued in accordance with one of the following conventions:

– Maritime Labour Convention 2006 (MLC);

– International Convention on Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping for Seafarers (STCW);

– ILO 73 Medical Examination (Seafarers) Convention, 1946;

Preventative occupational health

• Close links with 4.1 and 4.3

• 4.1 Health promotion and education – posters and leaflets.

• 4.3 Occupational safety – prohibition for young persons/risk assessments/health surveillance/physical exposure to agents.

• Reporting of occupational diseases and producing annual report.

MLC Definition of a Shipowner

“shipowner means the owner of the ship or another organization or person, such as the manager, agent or bareboat charterer, who has assumed the responsibility for the operation of the ship from the owner and who, on assuming such responsibility, has agreed to take over the duties and responsibilities imposed on shipowners in accordance with this Convention, regardless of whether any other organization or persons fulfil certain of the duties or responsibilities on behalf of the shipowner”.

MLC Definition of a Seafarer

From MLC, “A seafarer means any person, including the master, who is employed, engaged or works in any capacity on board a ship”.

The 94th Maritime Session 2006 of the International Labour

Conference, developed Resolution VII concerning occupational groups.

The resolution gives flag states further guidance on who may be

and who may not be seafarers.

The Isle of Man proposes that: seafarers are also; Persons who regularly spend

more than short periods aboard for example, repair and maintenance squads and specialist ship staff engaged to work at sea on particular ships. For example, riding squads for chipping/painting deck and ballast tanks.

The Isle of Man has used the resolution to further define a seafarer.

Seafarers are not:

Those persons whose work is not part of the routine business of the ship and whose principal place of work is ashore, for example:

marine professionals such as harbour pilots, inspectors, superintendents, scientists, researchers, divers and specialist offshore technicians.

Those persons working on a seagoing ship on an occasional and short-term basis for example fitters, guest lecturers and entertainers on passenger ships, repair technicians, surveyors or port workers.

P & I coverage

Are we keeping our customers advised?

• Since November 2009 – Newsletters on our policy ideas

MLC Seminar in February 2011

• Isle of Man Ship Registry Website

Guidance notes MLNs – model SEA

Thank you for listening