Singapore legislation
Regulation 4
Regulation 4
Safeguards and safety measures
Subregulation 1
It shall be the duty of the shipowner to develop, take and implement on board such occupational health and safety measures to prevent occupational accidents, injuries and diseases as are specified in paragraph (2).
Subregulation 2
The occupational health and safety measures referred to in paragraph (1) shall either —
meet the requirements of an approved ship safety management system under the International Safety Management Code; or
include all of the following:
provision and maintenance of plant, machinery and equipment and systems of work that are, so far as is reasonably practicable, safe and without risk to health;
arrangements for ensuring, so far as is reasonably practicable, safety and absence of risk to health in connection with the use, handling, stowage and transport of articles and substances;
provision of necessary, appropriately sized, personal protective equipment for seafarers;
arrangements as are appropriate, having regard to the nature of, and the substances used in, the activities and size of the operation, for the effective planning, organisation, control, monitoring and review of preventive and protective measures;
arrangements to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, that no person has access to any area of the ship to which it is necessary to restrict access on grounds of health and safety unless the individual concerned has received adequate and appropriate health and safety instruction.