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SMS Introduction
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the Affiliate Organisation's assistance as may be
necessary.
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The Affiliate Organisation
shall
ensure that the Master is:
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.1.1 Properly qualified for command;
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.1.2 Fully conversant with the Affiliate Organisation's
Safety Management System
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.1.3 Given the necessary support so that the Master's
duties can be safely performed.
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- Crew Management
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- Competence & Training
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.2.1
The Affiliate Organisation
shall
ensure that each ship is
manned with qualified, certified and medically fit seafarers
in accordance with national and international
requirements.
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- Crew Management
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.2.2
The Affiliate Organisation shall appropriately manned in
order to encompass all aspects of maintaining safe
operations on board.
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- Crew Management
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.3
The Affiliate Organisation
shall
establish procedures to
ensure that new personnel and personnel transferred to
new assignments related to safety and protection of the
environment are given proper familiarization with their
duties. Instructions which are essential to be provided prior
to sailing
shall
be identified, documented and given.
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- Crew Management
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.4
The Affiliate Organisation
shall
ensure that all personnel
involved in the Affiliate Organisation's Safety Management
System have an adequate understanding of relevant rules,
regulations, codes and guidelines.
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3
- Crew Management
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3
- Competence & Training
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.5
The Affiliate Organisation
shall
establish and maintain
procedures for identifying any training which may be
required in support of the Safety Management System and
ensure that such training is provided for all personnel
concerned.
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- Crew Management
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3
- Competence & Training
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The Affiliate Organisation
shall
establish procedures by
which the ship's personnel receive relevant information on
the Safety Management System in a working language or
languages understood by them.
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- Management Responsibility (4.2)
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- Crew Management
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The Affiliate Organisation
shall
ensure that the ship's
personnel are able to communicate effectively in the
execution of their duties related to the Safety Management
System.
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- Crew Management
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- Competence & Training
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7.0
The Affiliate Organisation
shall
establish procedures,plans
and instructions, including checklists as appropriate, for
key shipboard operations concerning the safety of the
personnel, ship and protection of the environment. The
various tasks
shall
be defined and assigned to qualified
personnel.
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Competence & Training
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Operations
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8.1
The Affiliate Organisation
shall
identify potential
emergency shipboard situations annd procedures to
respond to them
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Emergency Preparedness
8.2
The Affiliate Organisation
shall
establish programmes for
drills and exercises to prepare for emergency actions.
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Emergency Preparedness
8.3
The Safety Management System
shall
provide for
measures ensuring that the Affiliate Organisation's
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/2012. Version date: 31/12/2014. Valid version only on QMS site. Uncontrolled document when printed.
Specification prepared by: BOS Deputy QHSE Manager. Approved by: BOS QHSES Manager. Validated by: BOS Quality Representative.
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