Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2018L01173:body:0:p5
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2018L01173
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Character Range: 10798–13782

contingency planning and emergency preparedness.
The operator should take into account the necessary standards of fitness, experience and competence to ensure the health and safety of seafarers in the performance of their duties when operating on board. In doing so the operator should:
       ensure acceptable working and living conditions, including working hours and rest periods;
       plan shipboard operations to take into account the expected period of work and the prevailing conditions on board in order to minimise the risk of fatigue; and
       consider reports and recommendations made by the person in command, health and safety committee or other on board committees regarding health and safety issues on the ship.
The operator should direct the person in command, and the person in command should work closely with the health and safety committee and health and safety representatives, to ensure that the work on board is organised in such a way as to eliminate or minimise health and safety risks. The operator should make the person in command and seafarers fully aware of all activities on board that could affect their health and safety.
The operator must designate a person(s) ashore to be responsible for:[5]
       monitoring the safety aspects of the operation of each ship; and
       ensuring that adequate resources and shore-based support are applied, as required.
The operator must, if requested by a health and safety representative or an involved union, establish a health and safety committee on the ship. The OHS(MI) Act also enables the operator, in consultation with the involved unions or other persons, to establish such a committee covering health and safety matters across several ships.
The operator must ensure that the person in command fulfils the obligations imposed by the OHS(MI) Act and the Navigation Act 2012 including:
       consulting health and safety representatives on implementation of changes that affect safety in the workplace;
       allowing health and safety representatives access to the workplace;
       allowing health and safety representatives to be present at interviews relating to health and safety matters (if the person being interviewed agrees);
       giving health and safety representatives access to health and safety related information, other than confidential medical information;
       allowing health and safety representatives, who have not previously completed the approved health and safety representatives training course, time to complete the course during working hours as soon as is reasonably practicable;
       allowing health and safety representatives such time off work as is reasonably necessary for them to exercise their powers;
       complying with provisional improvement notices, to the extent that they relate to matters under the person in command's control;
       making available to health and safety committees any information, other than confidential medical