Duties and Responsibilities from the International Convention on Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping for Seafarers

What are your responsibilities under current health and safety legislation, standards and guidance, eg the Health & Safety at Work Act (and any other relevant legislation).

Task 4Ensuring health and safety is an important responsibility not only for the Managers but all associated with the premises. Evaluate your organisation’s health and safety policy and procedures in line with legislative requirements and propose recommendations on how health and safety should be managed

Records and statistics will be evaluated by inspection and investigation reports, workers orientations logs, equipment and logbooks, emergency response plans (drills, enforced safety, first aid), supervisory notes, and safety contacts (past and present) The reasoning to evaluate these areas is to ensure due diligence. This ensures the employer is taking responsibility for workers and strives to conserve a safe working environment.

Throughout history, there has been a multitude of events that have helped shape the Occupational Safety and Health doctrines that we have today. Some events have had small impacts, and others have totally reshaped how an entire industry operates. Although there are many incidents that we can talk about, we are going to focus on the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. Within this subject, we will talk about the specific events that happened, what safety standards existed and what standards were penned because of the incident, and how the existing safety standards keep a similar tragedy from happening in the current era. With all of this information, we will have a better picture of how the world of Occupational Safety and Health evolves throughout

Reporting of Injuries,Diseases and dangerous occurrences regulations of 1995 requires the reporting of work-related accidents, diseases and dangerous occurrences. The Act applies to all work related activities, but not to all work related incidents. The objective of the regulations is to enable the enforcing authorities to identify where and how risks arise and to investigate serious accidents so as to prevent them from occurring in the future and thus providing a safer work environment. The enforcing authorities can then help and advise you on preventive action to reduce injury, ill health and accidental loss,the main points of our own policy that relate to this are:

1.1- Describe how current health and safety legislation, policies and procedures are implemented in the setting.

Describe how current health and safety legislation, policies and procedures are implemented in the setting.

Arguably the greatest threat to freight transportation safety is operator fatigue. This human factor is a prevalent risk across most major modes. The problem is so significant that the National Transportation Safety Board has identified the need to reduce accidents and incidents caused by marine, aviation and pipeline operator fatigue to be among their “most wanted” list (NTSB, 2009). While this list does not include truck driver fatigue, it does include preventing medically unqualified drivers from operating commercial vehicles, which may be indirectly tied to fatigue.

Sea World demonstrates a number of positive ways to run services and facilities. These features are important to Sea World as they keep their guests comfortable and happy. In particular they offer wheelchairs and restrooms for people with disabilities and parent rooms for families with babies. As seen in Figure 6 Sea World offers regular rest rooms, disabled rest rooms and parent rooms. Throughout of Sea World they provide 4 disabled restrooms, 5 general restrooms and 2 parent rooms. Though having 11 restrooms in Sea World a 70km park is rather not enough. Having the visitors walk up and down can make visitors uncomfortable not only them but disabled guest as well. Another initiative is having wheelchairs. Sea World offers guests hiring wheelchairs

Any information, instruction, training and supervision needed to make sure that all workers are safe from injury and risks to their health

Employers, managers and supervisors should all ensure that workplace practices reflect the risk assessment and safety statement. Behavior, the way in which everyone works, must reflect the safe working practices laid down in these documents. Supervisory checks and audits should be carried out to determine how well the aims set down are being achieved. Corrective action should be taken when required. Additionally, if a workplace is provided for use by others. The safety statement must also set out the safe work practices that are relevant to them. Hence, it is

Describe how current health and safety legislation, policies and procedures are implemented in the setting

For a small commercial motor vessel operating up to Category 3, which of the following certificates would be valid for the skipper of that vessel?

1.1 Describe how current health and safety legislation, policies and procedures implemented in the setting

To many people are dying due to fishing. Canada has to make fish industries less deadly. Fishing industry has cost about 190 Canadian lives since 2000 and it has to improve its culture of safety, the Transportation Safety Board. The causes of fatalities in the fishing industries is that most fishers decide to fish when the weather is in or is going to be in a bad condition, workers have to fish in those conditions because they need the money or they are behind in their quota for the year. Also, sometimes the vessels do not carry a distress communication device. “In Canada, falling overboard is the second highest cause of fatality in the fishing industry,”. “The safety of fishermen will be compromised until the complex relationship and inter