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The safety officer must undergo sufficient training, have experience or knowledge and
other qualities to enable him or her properly to undertake the duty imposed under the
relevant provision as per COSWP Chapter 13. He has, in addition, a minimum of two
years’ consecutive sea service since attaining the age of 18. In the case of a tanker, the
safety officer shall minimum six months service in a tanker included in the 2 years’ sea
service. Appointment of a safety officer must be recorded in writing in the Official Log
Book.
Safety Representatives
The company must make rules for the election and appointment of safety
representatives. The safety representatives must be voted with the maximum votes. He
must have a minimum of 2 years’ consecutive sea service since attaining the age of 18
years, which in the case of tankers must include 6 months’ tanker service.
The appointment of a safety representative will terminate on that person signing off or
resigning from the company. If the ship has crew number from 6 to 15, the officers and
crew should elect one safety representative. If there are more than 16, one safety
representative each should be elected from the officers and the crew respectively. If
there are more than 30 ratings one safety representative from the officers and three
safety representatives from the rating i.e. one from the deck, one from the engine and
one from the catering department. Appointment of a safety representative must be
recorded in writing in the Official Log Book.
The committee’s role is to continuously monitor the health and safety concerns of all
ship’s crew and to make recommendations to the Master at any time when carrying out
critical operations or during safety meetings.