IMO documents

ILO documents

• Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 7 February 2006
• Convention on Seafarers’ Hours of Work and Manning of Ships, 1996 (No. 180) 1996
• Accident prevention on board ship at sea and in port 1996
• ‘International Maritime Organisation (IMO) & International Labour Office (ILO) (1999) – IMO / ILO Guidelines for the Development of Tables of Seafarers’ Shipboard Working Arrangements and Formats of Records of Seafarers’ Hours of Work or Hours of Rest’ 1999

UK government documents

• Merchant Shipping Act 1995 – Chapter 21 – Part XI – Accident Investigations and Inquiries
• MCA Marine Information Note – MIN 342(M) – ‘International Safety Management (ISM) Code Implementation on Domestic Vessels’
• Statutory Instrument – 1988 No. 1716 – The Merchant Shipping (Operations Book) Regulations 1988 1988
• Statutory Instrument – 1997 No. 2962 – The Merchant Shipping and Fishing Vessels (Health and Safety at Work) Regulations 1997 1997
• Statutory Instrument 1997 No. 3022 – The Merchant Shipping (ISM Code) (Ro-Ro Passenger Ferries) Regulations 1997 1997
• Statutory Instrument 1998 No. 1561 – The Merchant Shipping (International Safety Management (ISM) Code) Regulations 1998 1998
• Statutory Instrument 1998 No. 1838 – Merchant Shipping (Code of Safe Working Practices for Merchant Seamen) Regulations 1998 1998
• Statutory Instrument – 2012 – Merchant Shipping: The Merchant Shipping (Accident Reporting and Investigation) Regulations 2012 31 July 2012
• Statutory Instrument – 2013 No. 2882 – The Merchant Shipping (Accident Reporting and Investigation)(Amendment) Regulations 2013 31 December 2013
• Carriage of Goods by Sea Act 1924 1924
• Carriage of Goods by Sea Act 1971 1971
• M Notice 1188 (1986) – superseded by M Notice 1424 – Good Ship Management August 1990
• Marine Guidance Note – MGN 458 (M+F) – Accident Reporting and Investigation October 2012
• Maritime and Coastguard Agency, ‘Code of Safe Working Practices for Merchant Seamen’ (TSO, under licence from HMSO, 2014), ISBN 978–0-11–553170–5 Consolidated edition 2010 – with Annexes – 2014
• Department of Transport (UK), MV Herald of Free Enterprise. Report of Court No. 8074 – Formal Investigation (Hon. Mr Justice Sheen, Wreck Commissioner), 29 July 1987 (Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1987), ISBN 0 11 5508287 29th July 1987
• Tavistock Institute (on behalf of the UK DOT), The Human Element in Shipping Casualties (HMSO, 1988) ISBN 0 11 551004 4 1988
• Safety Aspects of Ship Design and Technology produced by the House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology, under the then chairmanship of Lord Carver. 1992
• The Thames Safety Inquiry report on the Marchioness disaster – and ‘Marchioness / Bowbelle – Formal Investigation under the Merchant Shipping Act 1995’ – HMSO – First Published 2001 – ISBN 0 11 702550 December 1999 2001
• Managing for Health and Safety (UK Health and Safety Executive, 3rd edn, 2013), ISBN 978–0-7176–64566 2013

Other governmental and inter-governmental documents

European Union

• Council Directive 2009/15/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 April 2009 – on common rules and standards for ship inspection and survey organisations and for the relevant activities of maritime administrations. 23 April 2009
• Regulation (EC) No. 336/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 February 2006 – on the implementation of the International Safety Management Code within the Community and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No. 3051/95 15 February 2006
• Council Directive 1999/63/EC – Seafarers Directive concerning the Agreement on the organisation of working time of seafarers 21 June 1999
• Council Regulation (EC) No. 3051/95 – On the safety management of roll-on / rolloff passenger ferries 8 December 1995

United States

• Title 33 CFR – Navigation and Navigable Waters – Chapter 1 – Coast Guard, Department of Homeland Security – Subchapter F – Vessel Operating Regulations – Part 96 – Rules for the Safe Operation of Vessels and Safety Management Systems: 23 January 1998
• Safety Management System Manual – developed by Commandant (G-MSO-2) – US Coast Guard
• 8 January 2003
• Section 415 of the Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Act of 2004 + ’46 CFR Subchapter ‘M’ 2004

IACS documents

• Guidelines on Marine Accident Investigation Reports Feb 2014
• IACS Proc. Req. No. 9 – Procedural Requirements for ISM Code Certification Rev. 2 Sep 2012
• IACS Proc. Req. No. 10 – Procedure for the Selection, Training, Qualification and Authorisation of Marine Management Systems Auditors Rev. 1 Sep 2012
• IACS Proc. Req. No. 17 – Reporting by Surveyors of Deficiencies relating to Possible Safety Management System Failures Rev. 0 July 2009
• IACS Proc. Req. No. 18 – Transfer of Safety and Security Management System Certification
• Rev. 1 Sept 2012
• IACS Rec. No. 41 – Guidance for IACS Auditors to the ISM Code Rev. 4 Dec 2005
• IACS Rec. No. 71 – Guide for development of shipboard technical manuals
• IACS Rec. No. 92 – IACS Guidelines for ISM Code and ISPS Code aligned audits and SMC and ISSC expiration dates alignment Corr. 1 July 2006
• IACS Rec. No. 127 – A Guide to Risk Assessment in Ship Operations June 2012

General reference documents and publications