Guidance

MSN 1870 Amendment 1 Personal protective equipment regulations 1999

Safety standards for personal protective equipment covered by the merchant shipping and fishing vessels 1999 regulations.

From:
Maritime and Coastguard Agency
Published
26 September 2019

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MSN 1870 Amendment 1 has been replaced by MSN 1870 Amendment 2

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MSN 1870 Amendment 1 Personal protective equipment regulations 1999

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This notice replaces MSN 1731 (M+F) and MSN 1870 (M+F)

Notice to

  • shipowners
  • employers
  • masters
  • seafarers
  • safety officers, and safety representatives

Amendment 1 reflects the changes in regulations since the publication of this MSN and updates the PPE standards quoted from the British Standards and EU Commissions Harmonised Standards websites.

This notice also reflects the Merchant Shipping (Maritime Labour Convention) (Health and Safety) (Amendment) Regulations (S.I. 2014/1616) (“the MLC Health and Safety amendments”) and the Merchant Shipping (Work in Fishing Convention) (Consequential and Minor Amendments) Regulations (S.I. 2018/1109) (the “Work in Fishing Consequential Amendments”).

MSN 1870 (M+F) took into account the MLC Health and Safety amendments, which do not apply to fishing vessels and extended the duties to protect “workers” in health and safety legislation, including the PPE regulations, so that they protect all seafarers, regardless of their employment status, and duties on employers also apply to shipowners. On 31 December 2018, the Work in Fishing Amendments came into force and further extended the protection of health and safety legislation to fishermen regardless of their employment status and applied the duties on employers also to fishing vessel owners. References in this notice to “shipowners and employers” and “seafarers and other workers”. Therefore now include fishing vessel owners and fishermen.

Annex 1 gives the design standards for personal protective equipment in use on board ships, for specified work activities and situations, in order to comply with regulation 5(2)(a) of the PPE regulations.

This notice has been published following public consultation 2019

Published 26 September 2019

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