Marine and Offshore Safety
MM777
Postgraduate Course
By:
Dr. Ahmed Abdelhamid
Introduction
Introduction
WHY ARE YOU
ATTENDING THIS
COURSE?
Introduction
Ships People Cargoes
Safe and
enviromental
friendly
shipping
How to achieve that???
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HOW?
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National
rules and
regulations
International
rules and
regulations
IMO (International Maritime
Introduction
Organization)
• The best way of improving safety at sea is by developing
international regulations that applies on all nations;
• There was a need to establish permanent international body to
promote maritime safety more effectively;
• There were no achievements until the establishment of the United
Nations;
• IMO is the UN specialized agency with responsibility for the
safety and security of shipping and the prevention of marine
pollution by ships.
IMO (International Maritime
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Organization)
• 1948 - The Convention establishing IMO was adopted in
Geneva
• 1959 - IMO first meeting (the original name was the Inter-
Governmental Maritime Consultative Organization or IMCO)
• 1982 - the name was changed to IMO
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How ships should be
Ships constructed? What
equipement they
should carry?
How cargoes should
Cargoes be transported?
What people should
People know? Which
competencies they
should have?
SOLAS – Convention for
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the Safety of Life at Sea
• IMO's first task was to adopt a
new version of the
International Convention for
the Safety of Life at Sea
(SOLAS).
• First edition of SOLAS was
made in 1914 (after Titanic),
BUT :
In real this was achieved in
1960.
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MARPOL – International Convention for
the Prevention of Pollution from Ships
• Although safety was and
remains IMO’s most important
responsibility, second biggest
problem was and is pollution
of the seas.
• After big tanker disaster in
1967, the IMO introduced
several measures designed to
prevent tanker accidents:
The most important of these
measures was MARPOL in
1973 modified in 1978.
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The International Maritime Dangerous
Goods (IMDG) Code
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STCW – Convention on Standards of Training,
Certification and Watchkeeping for Seafarers
• On 1 February 1997, the 1995 amendments to the International
Convention on Standards of Training, Certification and
Watchkeeping for Seafarers, entered into force (STCW).
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STCW – Convention on Standards of Training,
Certification and Watchkeeping for Seafarers
• On 25 June 2010 The
Manila amendments to the
STCW Convention and Code
were adopted, marking a
major revision of the STCW
Convention and Code.
• The 2010 amendments are
set to enter into force on 1
January 2012.
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STCW Convention’ s content
STCW Code consists of 2 parts – A and B.
Part A includes:
• Chapter I: General provisions
• Chapter II: Master and deck department
• Chapter III: Engine department
• Chapter IV: Radiocommunication and radio personnel
• Chapter V: Special training requirements for personnel on certain types
of ships
• Chapter VI: Emergency, occupational safety, medical care
and survival functions
• Chapter VII: Alternative certification
• Chapter VIII: Watchkeeping
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Personal survival
techniques
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Preamble
Competence:
Survive at sea in the event of ship
abandonment
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Preamble
Knowledge, understanding
and proficiency :
Types of emergency situations which may occur;
Types of life-saving appliances carried on ships;
Equipment in survival craft;
Location of personal life-saving appliances;
Principles concerning survival, including value of training & drills,
personal protective clothing and equipment, readiness, main
dangers to survivors etc.
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Preamble
Needed Competence:
Wearing a lifejacket;
Wearing and using an immersion suit;
Safely jump from height into the water;
Right an inverted liferaft while wearing a lifejacket;
Swimming while wearing a lifejacket;
Keeping afloat without a lifejacket;
Boarding a survival craft from the ship and water with
lifejacket;
Taking initial actions, operate survival craft equipment,
stream a drogue or sea-anchor, operate location devices
including radio equipment.
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Principles of survival at sea
1. On – board familiarization (every crew member with assigned
emergency duties shall be familiar with these duties before the voyage
begin)
2. Regular training and drills (not later than 2 weeks after a crew
member joins the ship – full training in all safety equipment)
3. A person working on board ships has to be ready for any
emergency, know what actions to be taken when called to
survival craft stations, required to abandon ship, required
to jump in the water, being in water and aboard a survival
craft, also know main dangers to survivors,etc.
This Check List should be completed within 6 hours of joining vessel
FAMILIARISATION SAFETY CHECK LIST - 1
Date Ship
Yes No
1. Check Lifeboat Station (Lifeboat No……).
Проверьте расположение своей спасательной шлюпки No.
2. Check Lifeboat Launching duty.
Проверьте свои обязанности по спуску спасательной шлюпки.
3. Have you carried out this duty before?
Выполняли ли Вы эти обязанности раньше?
If not, have you asked Officer in charge to explain?
Если нет, то просили ли Вы объяснений у Офицера по безопасности?
4. Have you checked escape routes from your cabin and work place to Lifeboat
Station and emergency Muster station?
Знаете ли Вы путь от Вашей каюты и рабочего места до спасательной
шлюпки и до места сбора экипажа по тревоге?
5. Have you checked Emergency Muster Station?
Проверяли ли Вы расположение места сбора экипажа по тревоге?
6. Have you checked Emergency Party Duty?
Проверили ли свои обязанности по тревоге?
7. Have you carried out this duty before?
Выполняли ли Вы такие обязанности раньше?
If not, have you asked Officer in charge to explain?
Если нет, то просили ли Вы объяснений у Офицера по безопасности?
8. Have you located the 2 Fire Extinguishers nearest to your cabin?
Проверяли ли Вы расположение ближайших к Вашей каюте 2
огнетушителей?
9. Have you used this type of extinguishers?
Использовали ли Вы раньше огнетушители такого типа?
If not, have you asked Officer in charge to explain?
Если нет, то просили ли Вы объяснений у Офицера по безопасности?
10. Have you located the nearest Fire Alarm to your cabin?
Проверили ли Вы расположение ближайшей к Вашей каюте кнопки
пожарной сигнализации?
11. Have you located the nearest internal telephone to your cabin?
Проверили ли Вы расположение ближайшего к Вашей каюте внутреннего
телефона?
12. Have you checked your Lifejacket?
Проверили ли Вы свой спасательный жилет?
Signature / Подпись Rank / Должность Master or Ch. Officer signature
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On-board familiarization
This Check List should be completed within 6 hours of joining vessel
FAMILIARISATION SAFETY CHECK LIST - 1
Date Ship
Yes No
1. Check Lifeboat Station (Lifeboat No……).
Проверьте расположение своей спасательной шлюпки No.
2. Check Lifeboat Launching duty.
Проверьте свои обязанности по спуску спасательной шлюпки.
3. Have you carried out this duty before?
Выполняли ли Вы эти обязанности раньше?
If not, have you asked Officer in charge to explain?
Если нет, то просили ли Вы объяснений у Офицера по безопасности?
4. Have you checked escape routes from your cabin and work place to Lifeboat
Station and emergency Muster station?
Знаете ли Вы путь от Вашей каюты и рабочего места до спасательной
шлюпки и до места сбора экипажа по тревоге?
5. Have you checked Emergency Muster Station?
Проверяли ли Вы расположение места сбора экипажа по тревоге?
6. Have you checked Emergency Party Duty?
Проверили ли свои обязанности по тревоге?
7. Have you carried out this duty before?
Выполняли ли Вы такие обязанности раньше?
If not, have you asked Officer in charge to explain?
Если нет, то просили ли Вы объяснений у Офицера по безопасности?
8. Have you located the 2 Fire Extinguishers nearest to your cabin?
Проверяли ли Вы расположение ближайших к Вашей каюте 2
огнетушителей?
9. Have you used this type of extinguishers?
Использовали ли Вы раньше огнетушители такого типа?
If not, have you asked Officer in charge to explain?
Если нет, то просили ли Вы объяснений у Офицера по безопасности?
10. Have you located the nearest Fire Alarm to your cabin?
Проверили ли Вы расположение ближайшей к Вашей каюте кнопки
пожарной сигнализации?
11. Have you located the nearest internal telephone to your cabin?
Проверили ли Вы расположение ближайшего к Вашей каюте внутреннего
телефона?
12. Have you checked your Lifejacket?
Проверили ли Вы свой спасательный жилет?
Signature / Подпись Rank / Должность Master or Ch. Officer signature
Introduction
life saving appliances
on-board ships
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Definitions
• Survival craft
a craft capable of
sustaining the lives of
persons in distress from
the time of abandoning
the ship.
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Definitions
• Rescue boat
a boat designed to
rescue persons in
distress and to marshal
survival craft.
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Definitions
• Free-fall launching
a method of launching a
survival craft whereby the
craft with its complement of
persons and equipment on
board is released and
allowed to fall into the sea
without any restraining
apparatus.
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Definitions
• Launching appliances
means of transferring a
survival craft or rescue boat
from its stowed position to
the water (SAFELY).
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Definitions
• Inflatable appliance
An appliance which
depends upon non-rigid,
gas-filled chambers for
buoyancy and which is
normally kept uninflated
until ready for use.
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Definitions
• Float-free launching
Method of launching a
survival craft (life-raft)
whereby the craft is
automatically released
from a sinking ship and is
ready for use.
Link to a video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRTMSPbxOLY
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Definitions
• Immersion suit
A protective suit which
reduces the body heat
losses of a person wearing
it in the cold water.
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Definitions (8)
• Thermal protective aid (TPA)
A bag or suit made of waterproof
material with low thermal
conductance.
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SOLAS Training Manual
All ships has to carry the SOLAS Training Manual (TM).
TM should be provided in each crew mess room and
recreation room or in every crew cabin.
TM can consist of several volumes.
TM shall contain instructions and information, in easily
understandable terms illustrated wherever possible, on the
life-saving appliances provided on the ship and on the best
methods of survival.
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SOLAS Training Manual
Any part of information may be provided in audio –
visual aids instead of the Training Manual.
Information that shall be explained in detail:
Wearing of personal life saving appliances;
Mustering at assigned stations;
Boarding, launching and clearing survival craft, rescue
boats and Marine Evacuation systems;
Launching from within the survival craft;
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SOLAS Training Manual
Information that shall be explained in detail:
release from launching devices;
methods and use of devices for protection in launching
areas;
illumination in launching areas;
use of all survival equipment, use of all detection
equipment, the use of radio life-saving appliances, use of
drogues; use of engine and accessories;
recovery of survival craft and rescue boats including
stowage and securing;
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SOLAS Training Manual
Information that shall be explained in detail:
hazards of exposure and the need for warm clothing;
best use of the survival craft facilities in order to survive;
instructions for emergency repair of the life-saving
appliances;
all other functions contained in the muster list and
emergency instructions.
The training manual shall be written in the working
language of the ship (should be kept on board 3 copies – 2 in
English, 1 in language that speaks 75% of crew onboard).
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IMO Safety symbols and
signs used onboard ships
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IMO safety symbols and signs
Lifeboat
Rescue Boat
Life Raft
Embarkation ladder
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IMO safety symbols and signs
Lifebuoy
Lifejacket
Immersion suit
Radio equipment
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IMO safety symbols and signs
Pyrotechnics + survival craft
distress signals
Muster station, Assembly
station
Stretcher
Exit, Emergency Exit
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IMO Safety Signs
First aid kit
Emergency shower
Emergency eye wash
Emergency telephone
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“Shipboard familiarization”
Visit the link below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oq_i4qWpVeA
Thank You!
