Codes of Practice for Controlling Risks on Board Ships

Downloadable PDF Pack

Author:

Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA)

Publisher:

TSO (The Stationery Office)

This 'Codes of Practice for Controlling Risks on Board Ships - Downloadable PDF Pack' contains the three most up-to-date Codes of Practice related to controlling risks on board ships. The three new codes are:

The three new codes are:

• Code of Practice for Controlling Risks due to Hand-transmitted Vibration on Ships

• Code of Practice for Controlling Risks due to Noise on Ships

• Code of Practice for Controlling Risks due to Whole-body Vibration in Ships.

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'Code of Practice for Controlling Risks due to Hand-transmitted Vibration on Ships' deals with the:

• assessment of risk from hand-transmitted vibration onboard ships.

• measurement and evaluation of hand-transmitted vibration.

• assessment of the severity of exposures to hand-transmitted vibration.

• identification of controls to eliminate or reduce exposures to hand-transmitted vibration.

• involvement of crew members in the control hand-transmitted vibration risks, including the provision of information and training.

• provision of health monitoring and surveillance for hand-transmitted vibration.

'Code of Practice for Controlling Risks due to Noise on Ships' deals with the:

• assessment of noise risk onboard ships.

• measurement of noise levels.

• determination of noise exposure levels for individual workers, or classes of workers performing the same tasks but on different watches.

• means of protecting the seafarer from the risk of noise-induced hearing damage when it is not technically feasible or reasonably practicable to limit noise exposure to a non-harmful level.

Code of Practice for Controlling Risks due to Whole-body Vibration in Ships deals with the:

• assessment of risk from whole-body vibration onboard ships

• measurement and evaluation of whole-body vibration

• assessment of the severity of exposures to whole-body vibration

• identification of controls to eliminate or reduce exposures to whole-body vibration

• involvement of crew members in the control of whole-body vibration risks, including the provision of information and training

• provision of health monitoring and surveillance for whole-body vibration.

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Extent	3 PDFs / 260 pages	ISBN	9780115531002
Size	5,687 KB	Price	£21.00
Format	Downloadable PDFs	Published	20 Oct 2009
Availability	Available Immediately