This Chapter provides information on the full range of shipboard operations, including loading and discharging of cargo, hose clearing, tank cleaning and gas freeing, ballasting, tanker-to-tanker transfers and mooring. The Chapter also includes information on the safe handling of particular cargoes, such as static accumulator oils, those having a high vapour pressure and those containing hydr…
This new publication of “Shipboard Cargo Handling Safety Guide” isbased on the safety guide of the same title issued by this department in 1982, and revised with updated safety and health basic knowledge by the Transport & Physical Distribution Industry Safety & Health Committee of the Occupational Safety & Health Council to finalize the edition. The Occupational Safety & Health Council pub…