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    The competent authority should: 1. Adopt laws to ensure seafarer safety based on hazards, consulting shipowners and unions. 2. Enforce laws through technical standards or codes of practice. 3. Consider international standards from groups like the ILO and IMO.

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    The competent authority should: 1. Adopt laws to ensure seafarer safety based on hazards, consulting shipowners and unions. 2. Enforce laws through technical standards or codes of practice. 3. Consider international standards from groups like the ILO and IMO.

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    General duties of the competent authority of flag States

    The competent authority should, on the basis of an assessment of safety and health
    hazards and in consultation with ship-owners and seafarers' organizations, adopt
    national laws or regulations to ensure the safety and health of seafarers working on
    ships.

    A practical application of these national laws or regulations should be provided


    through technical standards or codes of practice, or by other appropriate methods.

    The competent authority should have due regard to the relevant standards adopted by
    recognized international organizations in the field of maritime safety.1
    1 These include, from the International Labour Organization, the Merchant Shipping (Minimum
    Standards) Convention, 1976 (No. 147); the Prevention of Accidents (Seafarers) Convention, 1970
    (No. 134); the Prevention of Accidents (Seafarers) Recommendation, 1970 (No. 142); and from the
    International Maritime Organization, the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, 1974
    (SOLAS); the International Convention on Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping for
    Seafarers, 1978 (STCW); the International Convention on Loadlines , 1966 (ICL); the Convention on
    the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea, 1972 (COLREG) and any subsequent
    revisions of the above instruments.

    The competent authority should provide appropriate inspection services to enforce or


    administer the application of the provisions of national laws and regulations and
    should provide the necessary resources for the accomplishment of their task, or satisfy
    itself that appropriate inspection and enforcement are carried out.
    The inspection and survey of ships should normally be carried out by the competent
    authority.3 If inspection and survey are delegated to classification societies and other
    bodies, the competent authority should ensure that its international obligations are
    fulfilled and that national laws and regulations are enforced.
    The measures to be taken to ensure organized cooperation between ship owners and
    seafarers to promote safety and health on board ship should be prescribed by national
    law or regulations or by the competent authority.1 Such measures may include but
    should not be limited to:
    (a) The establishment on each ship of a safety and health committee with well-defined
    Powers and duties;
    (b) The appointment of an elected seafarers' safety representative(s) with well-defined
    Powers and responsibilities; and
    (c) The appointment by the ship-owners or master of a suitably qualified and
    experienced officer to promote safety and health.
    The competent authority should ensure that seafarers employed on board ships
    registered in its territory are properly certificated, where required. Due regard should
    be given to relevant ILO and IMO instruments, guidelines, resolutions and
    publications, in particular the revised ILO/IMO Document for guidance: An
    international maritime training guide (1985)3 and any subsequent revisions.

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