Code of Safe Working Practices for Merchant Seamen: Amendment 9, 2009

Amendment 9 to the Code of Safe Working Practices for Merchant Seamen provides some useful pictorial representations of various existing safety points contained within the Code. These include: arrangements for working aloft; working on portable ladders; arrangements for entrances into enclosed spaces; use of mobile work equipment; and the positioning of boarding equipment.

Amendment 9 contains:

• The latest guidance and advice for merchant seamen
• Key updates relating to regulations that are now in force
• Additional guidance under Chapter 13, 'Safe Movement'
• Advice on the general safety principals to be followed when working on deck whilst at sea and the appropriate precautions to take whilst working at sea during heavy weather.