Maritime Occupational Health and Safety Regulations (SOR/2010-120)

Regulations are current to 2013-04-29 and last amended on 2012-12-07. Previous Versions

Hospital Accommodation

  • 55. (1) An employer must provide hospital accommodation on board a vessel in accordance with the Marine Personnel Regulations.

  • (2) The hospital accommodation must be easy to access and suitable to accommodate and promptly care for persons in need of medical care.

  • (3) The vessel’s master must ensure that the accommodation is used exclusively for medical purposes.

  • (4) As far as practicable, sanitary facilities containing a minimum of one toilet, one wash basin and one tub or shower must be provided for the exclusive use of the occupants of the hospital accommodation, either as part of the accommodation or in close proximity to it.

Ventilation and Heating

  • 56. (1) The system of ventilation for sleeping quarters and mess rooms must be controlled so as to maintain the air in a satisfactory condition and to ensure sufficient air circulation at all times.

  • (2) All sanitary spaces must have ventilation to the open air, independent of any other part of the accommodation.

  • (3) Each personal service room and galley must be ventilated to provide at least two changes of air per hour

    • (a) by mechanical means, if the room is normally used by 10 or more employees at any one time; or

    • (b) by mechanical means or natural ventilation through a window or similar opening, if the room is used by fewer than 10 employees and

      • (i) the window or opening is located on an outside wall of the room, and

      • (ii) not less than 0.2 m2 of unobstructed ventilation is provided for each of the employees who normally use the room at any one time.

  • (4) If an employer provides ventilation by mechanical means, the amount of air provided for a type of room set out in column 1 of the table to this subsection must be no less than that set out in column 2.

    TABLE

    MINIMUM VENTILATION REQUIREMENTS FOR CHANGE ROOMS, SANITARY FACILITIES AND SHOWER ROOMS

    Column 1Column 2
    ItemType of RoomVentilation Requirements in litres per second (l/s)
    1.Change Room
    (a) for employees with clean work clothes(a) 5 l/s per m2 of floor area
    (b) for employees with wet or sweaty work clothes(b) 10 l/s per m2 of floor area; 3 l/s exhausted from each locker
    (c) for employees who work where work clothes pick up heavy odours(c) 15 l/s per m2 of floor area; 4 l/s exhausted from each locker
    2.Sanitary Facility10 l/s per m2 of floor area; at least 10 l/s per toilet compartment; minimum 90 l/s
    3.Shower Room10 l/s per m2 of floor area; at least 20 l/s per shower head; minimum 90 l/s

  • (5) If an employer provides for the ventilation of a galley or a canteen by mechanical means, the rate of change of air must be at least 9 l/s for each employee who is normally employed in the galley at any one time or for each employee who uses the canteen at any one time, as the case may be.