IMO Conventions

 

2. Answer the questions.

1. What regulations must any ship comply with?

2.  How many life jackets must be on board a ship?

3. Where do we secure safety harnesses?
4. How do liferafts vary?
5. Why may lowering of the lifeboat call for considerable preparation?

 

3.  Ask the questions to the underlined words and word combinations.

1. The Master’s responsibility is to ensure seaworthyness and experienced crew.

2. Life jackets are equipped with a whistle and a light.

3. A Safety Harness should be worn by all sailors on deck in heavy weather.

4. Lifebuoys must be carried on deck.

5. All liferafts are capable of carrying double the numbers for which they are certified.

6. Lifelines ought to be fitted right round the vessel.

 

4.  Speak about:

a) life jackets

b) Safety Harness

c) lifebuoy

d) liferafts

e)  lifelines

 

5. Fill in the missing words in the sentences below. Choose from the following list.

Lifebuoy, life jacket, immersion suit, lifeboat, hand flare, thermal protective aid, rocket parachute flare, rigid liferaft, buoyant smoke signal, inflatable liferaft, rescue boat.

 

1. The _______ shall permit the wearer to remove it in the water in not more than 2 min., if it impairs ability to swim.

2. The _______ shall have a rate of descent of not more than 5 m/s.

3. The _______ shall be constructed with waterproof materials such that it will cover the whole body with the exception of the face.

4. A _______ shall be so constructed that a person can correctly don it within a period of 1 min. without assistance.

5. The _______ shall emit smoke of a highly visible colour at a uniform rate for a period of not less than 3 min. when floating in calm water.

6. Every _______ shall have an outer diameter of not more than 800 mm. And an inner diameter of not less than 400 mm.

7. _______ shall be capable of carrying at least five seated persons and a person lying down.

8. The main buoyancy chamber of _______ shall be divided into not less than two separate compartments, each inflated through an inflation valve on each compartment.

9. A _______ shall be of such form and proportions that it has ample stability in a seaway and sufficient freeboard when loaded with their full compliment of persons and equipment.

10. The buoyancy of the _______ shall be provided by approved inherently buoyant materials placed as near possible to the periphery of the liferaft.

 

6. Retell the text “Life-saving appliances”

 

Lesson 3.

 

1.  Write down a synonym for each of the words on the left. Choose from the ones on the right.

1. danger                               a) crisis

2. defence                             b) restriction

3. emergency                          c) gear

4. goggles                               d) inflatable dinghy

5. plant                                    e) purpose

6. stretcher                              f) rescue litter

7. equipment                           g) grounding

8. helmet                                 h) hazard

9. aim                                      i) catastrophe

10. ear defenders                     j) installation

11. stranding                           k) harm

12. limitation                           l) protective glasses

13. damage                              m) protection

14. disaster                              n) earmuffs

15. inflatable boat                   o) hard hat

 

2.    Read and translate the passages from ISM Code.

2.  SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENTAL-PROTECTION POLICY

2.1 The Company should establish a safety and environmental-protection policy which describes how the objectives given in paragraph 1.2 will be achieved. 
2.2 The Company should ensure that the policy is implemented and maintained at all levels of the organization, both ship-based and shore-based.

3.  COMPANY RESPONSIBILITIES AND AUTHORITY

3.1 If the entity, who is responsible for the operation of the ship is other than the owner, the owner must report the full name and details of such entity to the Administration. 
3.2 The Company should define and document the responsibility, authority and interrelation of all personnel who manage, perform and verify work relating to and affecting safety and pollution prevention. 
3.3 The Company is responsible for ensuring that adequate resources and shore-based support are provided to enable the designated person or persons to carry out their functions.

4.  DESIGNATED PERSON(S)

To ensure the safe operation of each ship and to provide a link between the Company and those on board, every Company, as appropriate, should designate a person or persons ashore having direct access to the highest level of management. The responsibility and authority of the designated person or persons should include monitoring the safety and pollution-prevention aspects of the operation of each ship and ensuring that adequate resources and shore-based support are applied, as required.

8.  EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS

8.1 The Company should establish procedures to identify, describe and respond to potential emergency shipboard situations. 
8.2 The Company should establish programmes for drills and exercises to prepare for emergency actions. 
8.3 The safety management system should provide for measures ensuring that the Company's organization can respond at any time to hazards, accidents and emergency situations involving its ships.

9.  REPORTS AND ANALYSIS OF NON-CONFORMITIES, ACCIDENTS AND HAZARDOUS OCCURRENCES

9.1 The safety management system should include procedures ensuring that non-conformities, accidents and hazardous situations are reported to the Company, investigated and analysed with the objective of improving safety and pollution prevention. 
9.2 The Company should establish procedures for the implementation of corrective action.

10.  MAINTENANCE OF THE SHIP AND EQUIPMENT

10.1 The Company should establish procedures to ensure that the ship is maintained in conformity with the provisions of the relevant rules and regulations and with any additional requirements which may be established by the Company. 
10.2 In meeting these requirements the Company should ensure that:

.1 inspections are held at appropriate intervals; 
.2 any non-conformity is reported, with its possible cause, if known; 
.3 appropriate corrective action is taken; and 
.4 records of these activities are maintained.

10.3 The Company should establish procedures in its safety management system to identify equipment and technical systems the sudden operational failure of which may result in hazardous situations. The safety management system should provide for specific measures aimed at promoting the reliability of such equipment or systems. These measures should include the regular testing of stand-by arrangements and equipment or technical systems that are not in continuous use. 
10.4 The inspections mentioned in 10.2 as well as the measures referred to in 10.3 should be integrated into the ship's operational maintenance routine.

11.  DOCUMENTATION

11.1 The Company should establish and maintain procedures to control all documents and data which are relevant to the safety management system. 
11.2 The Company should ensure that:

.1 valid documents are available at all relevant locations; 
.2 changes to documents are reviewed and approved by authorized personnel; and 
.3 obsolete documents are promptly removed.

11.3 The documents used to describe and implement the safety management system may be referred to as the Safety Management Manual. Documentation should be kept in a form that the Company considers most effective. Each ship should carry on board all documentation relevant to that ship.

12.  COMPANY VERIFICATION, REVIEW AND EVALUATION

12.1 The Company should carry out internal safety audits to verify whether safety and pollution-prevention activities comply with the safety management system. 
12.2 The Company should periodically evaluate the efficiency of and, when needed, review the safety management system in accordance with procedures established by the Company. 
12.3 The audits and possible corrective actions should be carried out in accordance with documented procedures. 
12.4 Personnel carrying out audits should be independent of the areas being audited unless this is impracticable due to the size and the nature of the Company. 
12.5 The results of the audits and reviews should be brought to the attention of all personnel having responsibility in the area involved. 
12.6 The management personnel responsible for the area involved should take timely corrective action on deficiencies found.

Vocabulary.

to implement - реализовывать

the entity - юридическое лицо

interrelation – взаимосвязь, взаимоотношение

the highest level of management – самый высокий уровень управления

non-conformities - несоблюдения

the relevant rules – соответствующие правила

stand-by arrangements – резервные устройства

valid documents- действительные документы

to obsolete - устаревший

safety audits – ревизия (проверка) безопасности

to evaluate  - оценивать

 

3.    Match the English and Russian translation of the following word combinations.

1. the objectives  will be achieved 2.  the policy is implemented and maintained 3.  to document the responsibility 4.  interrelation of all personnel 5.  to provide a link between 6.  to  designate a person 7.  to have a direct access 8.  shore-based support 9.  in conformity with the provisions 10.  the sudden operational failure 11.  to  integrate into the ship's operational maintenance routine

a) взаимоотношение всего персонала b) помощь на берегу c) внезапный отказ в работе d) политика реализуется и проводится e) в соответствии с положениями f) цели будут достигнуты g) назначить лицо h) включаться в текущее техническое обслуживание и ремонт судна в период эксплуатации i) оформить в виде документа j) обеспечить связь между k) иметь прямой доступ

 

4. Find the answers to the questions.

1.  What should the Company ensure? 2. What must the owner do If the entity who is responsible for the operation of the ship is other than the owner? 3. What should the responsibility and authority of the designated person or persons include? 4. What programmes should the Company establish? 5. What is the ship maintained in conformity with? 6. What specific measures should the Company provide for? 7. What must be done with obsolete documents? 8. What is the name of the documents used to describe and implement the safety management system? 9. What audits should the Company carry out? 10. Why are they carried out?

a) The provisions of the relevant rules and regulations and with any additional requirements which may be established by the Company.  b) The regular testing of stand-by arrangements and equipment or technical systems that are not in continuous use.  c) That the policy is implemented and maintained at all levels of the organization, both ship-based and shore-based. d) To verify whether safety and pollution-prevention activities comply with the safety management system.  e) Monitoring the safety and pollution-prevention aspects of the operation of each ship and ensuring that adequate resources and shore-based support are applied, as required. f) They are promptly removed. g) The owner must report the full name and details of such entity to the Administration. h) The Safety Management Manual. i) For drills and exercises to prepare for emergency actions. j) Internal safety audits.

 

5. Insert the missing words.

The designated person or persons, all documentation, the responsibility, the management personnel, protection, involving its ships, shore-based support.

 

1. The Company should establish a safety and environmental-_______.

2. The Company should define and document _______, authority and interrelation of all personnel.

3. Adequate resources and  _______ are provided to enable the designated person or persons to carry out their functions.

4. The responsibility and authority of _______ should include monitoring the safety and pollution-prevention aspects of the operation.

5. The Company's organization can respond at any time to hazards, accidents and emergency situations _______.

6.  Each ship should carry on board _______ relevant to that ship.

7.  _______ responsible for the area involved should take timely corrective action on deficiencies found.

 

Hometask.

 

1. Learn by heart the words of the topic “Life saving appliances”.  (см. Приложения)

2. Translate into English.

1. Компания  должна обеспечить реализацию  и проведение этой политики  персоналом как в море, так  и на берегу на всех уровнях  организации.

2. Персонал, осуществляющий управление, выполнение  и проверку работы, касающейся  безопасности и предотвращения  загрязнения. 

3. Ответственность  и полномочия назначенного лица  или лиц должны включать обеспечение  предоставления достаточных ресурсов  и оказания соответствующей помощи  на берегу по мере необходимости.

4. Компания  должна четко определить и  оформить в виде документов  ответственность капитана в отношении  издания соответствующих приказов  и инструкций в ясной и простой  форме.

5. Компания  должна составить программы учений  экипажа.

6. Компания  должна установить порядок обеспечения  технического обслуживания и  ремонта судна в соответствии  с положениями соответствующих  норм и правил.

 

Lesson 4.

1. Write down a synonym for each of the words on the left. Choose from the ones on the right.

1. Captain                              a) sailing

2. Chief Officer                     b) vessel

3. boatswain                          c) regulation

4. navigator                           d) obligation

5. sailor                                 e) discharging

6. home port                          f) First Mate                

7. cargo                                 g) Master

8. duty                                   h) seaman

9. departure                            i) bosun

10. helm                                 j) deck officer

11. autopilot                          k) port of registry

12. unloading                        l) security

13. rule                                 m) load

14. ship                                 n) steering gear

15. safety                              o) automatic steering device

 

2. Read and translate.

 

PART B - CERTIFICATION AND VERIFICATION

13.  CERTIFICATION AND PERIODICAL VERIFICATION

13.1. The ship should be operated by a Company which has been issued with a Document of Compliance or with an Interim Document of Compliance in accordance with paragraph 14.1, relevant to that ship. 
13.2. The Document of Compliance should be issued by the Administration, by an organization recognized by the Administration or, at the request of the Administration, by another Contracting Government to the Convention to any Company complying with the requirements of this Code for a period specified by the Administration which should not exceed five years. Such a document should be accepted as evidence that the Company is capable of complying with the requirements of this Code. 
13.3. The Document of Compliance is only valid for the ship types explicitly indicated in the document. Such indication should be based on the types of ships on which the initial verification was based. Other ship types should only be added after verification of the Company's capability to comply with the requirements of this Code applicable to such ship types. In this context, ship types are those referred to in regulation IX/1 of the Convention. 
13.4. The validity of a Document of Compliance should be subject to annual verification by the Administration or by an organization recognized by the Administration or, at the request of the Administration, by another Contracting Government within three months before or after the anniversary date. 
13.5. The Document of Compliance should be withdrawn by the Administration or, at its request, by the Contracting Government which issued the Document when the annual verification required in paragraph 13.4 is not requested or if there is evidence of major non-conformities with this Code. 
13.5.1 All associated Safety Management Certificates and/or Interim Safety Management Certificates should also be withdrawn if the Document of Compliance is withdrawn. 
13.6 A copy of the Document of Compliance should be placed on board in order that the master of the ship, if so requested, may produce it for verification by the Administration or by an organization recognized by the Administration or for the purposes of the control referred to in regulation IX/6.2 of the Convention. The copy of the Document is not required to be authenticated or certified. 
13.7. The Safety Management Certificate should be issued to a ship for a period which should not exceed five years by the Administration or an organization recognized by the Administration or, at the request of the Administration, by another Contracting Government. The Safety Management Certificate should be issued after verifying that the Company and its shipboard management operate in accordance with the approved safety management system. Such a Certificate should be accepted as evidence that the ship is complying with the requirements of this Code. 
13.8. The validity of the Safety Management Certificate should be subject to at least one intermediate verification by the Administration or an organization recognized by the Administration or, at the request of the Administration, by another Contracting Government. If only one intermediate verification is to be carried out and the period of validity of the Safety Management Certificate is five years, it should take place between the second and third anniversary dates of the Safety Management Certificate. 
13.9. In addition to the requirements of paragraph 13.5.1, the Safety Management Certificate should be withdrawn by the Administration or, at the request of the Administration, by the Contracting Government which has issued it when the intermediate verification required in paragraph 13.8 is not requested or if there is evidence of major non-conformity with this Code. 
13.10. Notwithstanding the requirements of paragraphs 13.2 and 13.7, when the renewal verification is completed within three months before the expiry date of the existing Document of Compliance or Safety Management Certificate, the new Document of Compliance or the new Safety Management Certificate should be valid from the date of completion of the renewal verification for a period not exceeding five years from the date of expiry of the existing Document of Compliance or Safety Management Certificate. 
13.11. When the renewal verification is completed more than three months before the expiry date of the existing Document of Compliance or Safety Management Certificate, the new Document of Compliance or the new Safety Management Certificate should be valid from the date of completion of the renewal verification for a period not exceeding five years from the date of completion of the renewal verification."