GIBRALTAR MARITIME ADMINISTRATION(Ministry of Maritime Affairs)

Watergate House
2/8 Casemates SquareGibraltar

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e-mail: maritime.survey@gibraltar.gov.gi
maritime.registry@gibraltar.gov.gi

Maritime Labour Notice (MLN) – 021______________________________________________________________________________
To: Ship Owners, Operators, Masters, Officers and Classification Societies

MLN 4.3(E) Reporting of Occupational Accidents, Incidents and Diseases
This MLN is part of a series of MLNs which provide guidance on compliance with Gibraltar regulations
which give effect to MLC 2006 Title 4.3. Implementation of these guidelines will be taken as evidence ofcompliance with the Gibraltar regulations.
The guidelines do not preclude the shipowner from demonstrating an equivalent or higher standard as an“alternative method” of evidence of compliance.
Documents referred to in this notice:
Maritime Labour Convention 2006 (MLC);
Gibraltar Merchant Shipping (Maritime Labour Convention) Regulations 2013 Reg. 30
Report of a Case of Occupational Disease Form (MLN003);
SGN 053 (as amended) – Incident Report Form;
Form GMA-23-F001 - Report of a case of occupational disease
Most regulations and notices are available on the Gibraltar website: www.gibraltarship.com

Reporting of Occupational Accidents, Incidents and Diseases
This Maritime Labour Notice forms part of a series of MLNs for MLC Regulation 4.3 health and safety
protection and accident prevention.
All Gibraltar registered vessels are required to report casualties, accidents, incidents and occupational
diseases to the Gibraltar Maritime Administration.
The shipowner and master are also required to ensure that the circumstances of every casualty, accident,and incident are examined, as far as practical. In most cases the submission of the Incident report form will
satisfy this requirement. In certain cases the Gibraltar Maritime Administration may request further
information on the findings of the examination. This may include details of any measures taken or
proposed to be taken in order to prevent a recurrence.

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1. Format for the Incident Report Form
.1 The reporting form for incidents, accidents and casualties required to be used on Gibraltar registered
vessels is the Incident Report Form. This form is available on the Gibraltar Maritime Administration
website.
.2 A shipowner can use their company Incident Report Form but this form has to be approved by theGibraltar Maritime Administration. A copy of the company form can be emailed tomaritime.survey@gibraltar.gov.gi for approval.
.3 For further information on the requirements for reporting of casualties, accidents and incidents refer toGibraltar Merchant Shipping Guidance Notice 053 as amended.
.2 Reporting of Occupational Diseases.4 MLC has a requirement for the shipowner to report occupational diseases to the Gibraltar MaritimeAdministration. This will be required under the following circumstances –a. the seafarer is diagnosed with the occupational disease while serving on an Gibraltar registeredvessel;b. the occupational disease is one specified in column 1 of the Schedule;c. the seafarer’s work involves an activity specified in the corresponding entry in column 2 of theSchedule;d. the shipowner has received a written statement prepared by a registered medical practitionerdiagnosing the disease as an occupational disease specified in column 1.
.5 All occupational diseases shall be reported by using form GMA-23-F001 Report of a Case ofOccupational Disease available on the Gibraltar Maritime Administration website. Alternatively ashipowner may use their own company generated form, providing it contains the same information
contained in the Gibraltar Maritime Administration Form GMA-23-F001 Report of a Case of OccupationalDisease.
Alan Cubbin
Maritime Administrator
Issue date November 2012
All notices are available through www.gibraltarship.com
This copy of the Administrative Instruction has been sent electronically and does not carry a signature or official stamp. A sign andstamped copy will be available upon request

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Schedule
Reporting of Occupational Diseases
Column 1 – Occupational diseases

Column 2 - activity

1. Inflammation, ulceration or malignant disease of
the skin due to ionising radiation.

Work with ionising radiation.

2. Malignant disease of the bones due to ionisingradiation.
3. Blood dyscrasia due to ionising radiation.
4. Cataract due to electromagnetic radiation.

Work involving exposure to electromagneticradiation (including radiant heat).

5. Decompression illness.

Work involving breathing gases at increased
pressure (including diving).

6. Barotrauma resulting in lung or other organdamage.
7. Dysbaric osteonecrosis.
8. Cramp of the hand or forearm due to repetitivemovements.

Work involving prolonged periods of handwriting,typing or other repetitive movements of thefingers, hand or arm.

9. Subcutaneous cellulitis of the hand (beat hand).

Physically demanding work causing severe orprolonged friction or pressure on the hand.

10. Bursitis or subcutaneous cellulitis arising at or
about the knee due to severe or prolonged externalfriction or pressure at or about the knee (beatknee).

Physically demanding work causing severe or
prolonged friction or pressure at or about theknee.

11. Bursitis or subcutaneous cellulitis arising at or
about the elbow due to severe or prolonged
external friction or pressure at or about the elbow(beat elbow).

Physically demanding work causing severe or
prolonged friction or pressure at or about theelbow.

12. Traumatic inflammation of the tendons of thehand or forearm or of the associated tendon
sheaths.

Physically demanding work, frequent or
repeated movements, constrained postures orextremes of extension or flexion of the hand orwrist.

13. Carpal tunnel syndrome.

Work involving the use of hand-held vibrating
tools.

14. Hand-arm vibration syndrome.

Work involving:(a) the use of chain saws, brush cutters or handheld or hand-fed circular saws.
(b) the use of hand-held rotary tools in grinding
material or in sanding or polishing metal;(c) the holding of material being ground or metalbeing sanded or polished by rotary tools;(d) the use of hand-held percussive metalworking tools or the holding of metal being
worked upon by percussive tools in connection
with riveting, caulking, chipping, hammering,
fettling or swaging;(e) the use of hand-held powered percussive

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drills or hand-held powered percussive
hammers.
Infections due to biological agents
15. Anthrax.
(a) Work involving handling infected animals,
their products or packaging containing infectedmaterial; or(b)work on infected sites
16. Brucellosis.

17.(a) Avian chlamydiosis.
17.(b) Ovine chlamydiosis.

18. Hepatitis.

19. Legionellosis.

20. Leptospirosis.

21. Lyme disease.
22. Q fever
23. Rabies.
24. Streptococcus suis.

25. Tetanus.
26. Tuberculosis.

27. Any infection reliably attributable to theperformance of the work specified in the entry
opposite hereto.

Conditions due to substances
28. Poisonings by any of the following:(a)acrylamide monomer;(b)arsenic or one of its compounds;(c)benzene or a homologue of benzene;

Work involving contact with:(a) animals or their carcasses (including any
parts thereof) infected by brucella or theuntreated products of same; or(b) laboratory specimens or vaccines of orcontaining brucella.
Work involving contact with birds infected withchlamydia psittaci, or the remains or untreatedproducts of such birds.
Work involving contact with sheep infected withchlamydia psittaci or the remains or untreatedproducts of such sheep.
Work involving contact with:(a) human blood or human blood products; or(b) any source of viral hepatitis.
Work on or near cooling systems which arelocated in the workplace and use water; or workon hot water service systems located in theworkplace which are likely to be a source ofcontamination.
(a) Work in places which are or are liable to beinfested by rats, fieldmice, voles or other small
mammals;(b)work involving contact with bovine animals or
their meat products or pigs or their meatproducts.
Work involving exposure to ticks.
Work involving contact with animals, theirremains or their untreated products.
Work involving handling or contact with infectedanimals.
Work involving contact with pigs infected withstreptococcus suis, or with the carcasses,
products or residues of pigs so affected.
Work involving contact with soil likely to becontaminated by animals.
Work with persons, animals, human or animal
remains or any other material which might be asource of infection.
Work with micro-organisms; work with live ordead human beings in the course of providing
any treatment or service or in conducting any
investigation involving exposure to blood or body
fluids; work with animals; or any potentially
infected material derived from any of the above.
Any activity

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(d)beryllium or one of its compounds;(e)cadmium or one of its compounds;(f)carbon disulphide;(g)diethylene dioxide (dioxan);(h)ethylene oxide;(i)lead or one of its compounds;(j)manganese or one of its compounds;(k)mercury or one of its compounds;(l)methyl bromide;(m)nitrochlorobenzene, or a nitroor aminoor chloroderivative of benzene or of a homologue ofbenzene;(n)oxides of nitrogen;(o)phosphorus or one of its compounds.
29. Cancer of a bronchus or lung.

30. Primary carcinoma of the lung where there isaccompanying evidence of silicosis.

31. Cancer of the urinary tract.

32. Bladder cancer.
33. Angiosarcoma of the liver.

(a)Work in or about a building where nickel isproduced by decomposition of a gaseous nickel
compound or where any industrial process
which is ancillary or incidental to that process iscarried on; or(b)work involving exposure to bis(chloromethyl)
ether or any electrolytic chromium processes(excluding passivation) which involve hexavalentchromium compounds, chromate production or
zinc chromate pigment manufacture.
Any occupation in:(a) glass manufacture;(b) metal ore mining;(c) clay mining;(d) the use of siliceous materials as abrasives;(e) foundry work;(f) stone cutting or masonry.
1. Work involving exposure to any of thefollowing substances:(a)beta-naphthylamine or methylene-bisorthochloroaniline;(b)diphenyl substituted by at least one nitro
or primary amino group or by at least one
nitro and primary amino group (includingbenzidine);(c)any of the substances mentioned in subparagraph (b) above if further ring
substituted by halogeno, methyl or methoxy
groups, but not by other groups; or(d)the salts of any of the substances
mentioned in sub-paragraphs (a) to (c)above.
2. The manufacture of auramine or
magenta.
Work involving exposure to aluminium smelting
using the Soderberg process.
(a)Work in or about machinery or apparatus
used for the polymerisation of vinyl chloride
monomer, a process which, for the purposes ofthis sub-paragraph, comprises all operations up
to and including the drying of the slurry
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34. Peripheral neuropathy.

35. Chrome ulceration of:(a)the nose or throat; or(b)the skin of the hands or forearm
36. Folliculitis
37. Acne.
38. Skin cancer.

39. Pneumoconiosis (excluding asbestosis).

part of the process referred to in the foregoing
sub-paragraph takes place.
Work involving the use or handling of orexposure to the fumes of or vapour containing nhexane or methyl n-butyl ketone.
Work involving exposure to chromic acidor toany other chromium compound.
Work involving exposure to mineral oil, tar, pitchor arsenic.

1.(a) The mining, quarrying or working ofsilica rock or the working of dried quartzose
sand, any dry deposit or residue of silica or
any dry admixture containing such materials(including any activity in which any of theaforesaid operations are carried out
incidentally to the mining or quarrying ofother minerals or to the manufacture ofarticles containing crushed or ground silicarock); or(b)the handling of any of the materials
specified in the foregoing sub-paragraph in
or incidentally to any of the operations
mentioned therein or substantial exposure
to the dust arising from such operations.
2. The breaking, crushing or grinding offlint, the working or handling of broken,
crushed or ground flint or materials
containing such flint or substantial exposure
to the dust arising from any of suchoperations.
3. Sand blasting by means ofcompressed air with the use of quartzose
sand or crushed silica rock or flint or
substantial exposure to the dust arisingfrom such sand blasting.
4. Work in a foundry or the performanceof, or substantial exposure to the dust
arising from, any of the following
operations:(a)the freeing of steel castings fromadherent siliceous substance; or(b)the freeing of metal castings fromadherent siliceous substance:(i)by blasting with an abrasive propelled bycompressed air, steam or a wheel, or(ii)by the use of power-driven tools.
5. The manufacture of china or
earthernware (including sanitaryearthenware, electrical earthenware andearthenware tiles) and any activity involving
substantial exposure to the dust arising
therefrom.
6. The grinding of mineral graphite or
substantial exposure to the dust arisingfrom such grinding.

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7. The dressing of granite or any
igneous rock by masons, the crushing ofsuch materials or substantial exposure to
the dust arising from such operations.
8. The use or preparation for use of anabrasive wheel or substantial exposure to
the dust arising therefrom.
9. (a) the trimming of coal in any ship,barge, lighter, dock or harbour or at any
wharf or quay; or(b)the sawing, splitting or dressing of slate
or any operation incidental thereto.
10. The manufacture or work incidental
to the manufacture of carbon electrodes byan industrial undertaking for use in theelectrolytic extraction of aluminium fromaluminium oxide and any activity involving
substantial exposure to the dust therefrom.
11. Boiler scaling or substantial
exposure to the dust arising therefrom.
The spinning or manipulation of raw or waste
cotton or flax or the weaving of cotton or flax.

40. Byssinosis.
41. Mesothelioma.
42. Lung cancer.
43. Asbestosis.

44. Cancer of the nasal cavity or associated air
sinuses.

45. Occupational dermatitis.

a)The working or handling of asbestos or any
admixture of asbestos;(b)the manufacture or repair of asbestos textiles
or other articles containing or composed ofasbestos:(c)the cleaning of any machinery or plant used inany of the foregoing operations and of anychambers, fixtures and appliances for thecollection of asbestos dust; or(d)substantial exposure to the dust arising fromany of the foregoing operations.
Work where nickel is produced bydecomposition of a gaseous nickel compound orin any process which is ancillary or incidental
thereto.
Work involving exposure to any of the following
agents:(a)epoxy resin systems;(b)formaldehyde and its resins;(c)metalworking fluids;(d)chromate (hexavalent and derived fromtrivalent chromium);(e)cement, plaster or concrete;(f)acrylates and methacrylates;(g)colophony (rosin) and its modified products;(h)glutaraldehyde;(i)mercaptobenzothiazole, thiurams, substituted
paraphenylene-diamines and related rubber
processing chemicals;(j)biocides, anti-bacterials, preservatives ordisinfectants;(k)organic solvents;(l)antibiotics and other pharmaceuticals andtherapeutic agents;(m)strong acids, strong alkalis, strong solutions(e.g. brine) and oxidising agents including

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47. Occupational asthma.

domestic bleach or reducing agents;(n)hairdressing products including in particulardyes, shampoos, bleaches and permanent
waving solutions;(o)soaps and detergents;(p)plants and plant-derived material including inparticular the daffodil, tulip and chrysanthemum
families, the parsley family (carrots, parsnips,parsley and celery), garlic and onion, hardwoods
and the pine family;(q)fish, shell-fish or meat;(r)sugar or flour; or(s)any other known irritant or sensitising agent
including in particular any chemical bearing thewarning “may cause sensitisation by skincontact” or “irritating to the skin”.
Exposure to moulds, fungal spores orheterologous proteins during work in:(a)agriculture, horticulture, forestry, cultivation ofedible fungi or malt-working;(b)loading, unloading or handling mouldy
vegetable matter or edible fungi whilst same isbeing stored;(c)caring for or handling birds; or(d)handling bagasse.
Work involving exposure to any of the following
agents:(a)isocyanates;(b)platinum salts;(c)fumes or dust arising from the manufacture,transport or use of hardening agents (including
epoxy resin curing agents) based on phthalicanhydride, tetrachlorophthalic anhydride,
trimellitic anhydride or triethylene-tetramine;(d)fumes arising from the use of rosin as asoldering flux;(e)proteolytic enzymes;(f)animals including insects and other arthropods
used for the purposes of research or education
or in laboratories;(g)dusts arising from the sowing, cultivation,
harvesting, drying, handling, milling, transport orstorage of barley, oats, rye, wheat or maize or
the handling, milling, transport or storage ofmeal or flour made therefrom;(h)antibiotics;(i)cimetidine;(j)wood dust;(k)ispaghula;(l)castor bean dust;(m)ipecacuanha;(n)azodicarbonamide;(o)animals including insects and otherarthropods (whether in their larval forms or not)used for the purposes of pest control or fruit
cultivation or the larval forms of animals used forthe purposes of research or education or inlaboratories;(p)glutaraldehyde;(q)persulphate salts or henna;

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(r)crustaceans or fish or products arising fromthese in the food processing industry;(s)reactive dyes;(t)soya bean;(u)tea dust;(v)green coffee bean dust;(w)fumes from stainless steel welding;(x) any other sensitising agent, including inparticular any chemical bearing the warning“may cause sensitisation by inhalation”.

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