The following terms are used in this manual with the meanings as shown below:
Accident: An unplanned event resulting in actual ill health or injury, damage to property, plant, ships or environment, production losses or increased liabilities.
Hazard A source; situation or act with the potential for harm in terms of:
• Ill health or injury, or both;
• Damage to property, plant or ships;
• Pollution of environment;
• Production losses or increased liabilities.
Environmental Aspect; Element of an organization's activities or products or services that can interact with the environment.
Environmental Impact; Any change to the environment, whether adverse or beneficial, wholly or partially resulting from an organization's environmental aspects.
Hazardous Work; Any work that is likely to endanger the life of any person in a shipyard or on board a ship in a harbor and includes any type of work which is specified by the Commissioner in writing as hazardous work.
Hot Work; Welding, flame cutting or burning and includes any other work involving the use or generation of heat or the production of sparks.
Procedure; The step-by-step method for carrying out a task safely and to the quality level required.
Responsible Person; In relation to any work carried out in a shipyard or on board a ship in a harbor, means:
• In the case of a shipyard, the occupier of the shipyard
• In the case of a ship in a harbor:
- The employer of any person who carries out the work; or
- The principal under whose direction any person carries out the work.
Shipyard; Shipyard includes any dry or wet dock, wharf, jetty and quay, and the precincts thereof.
Risk; The combination of the probability of an incident and its consequences.
Risk Assessment; The process of evaluating the probability and consequences of injury or illness arising from exposure to an identified hazard, and determining the appropriate measures for risk control.
Safe Work Practices; Any procedure for carrying out work safely, and includes any procedure which is to be taken to protect the safety and health of persons in the event of an emergency. Safe work procedure may take the form of an instruction, whether written, pictorial, or conveyed by training and supervision for safe performance of tasks such as welding, operation of machines, access to work locations. Safe work procedure should also include procedures to be taken in the case of emergency.
Safety; Freedom from unacceptable risk of harm including:
• The protection of people from physical or health hazards;
• The protection of assets; and
• The maintenance of production capability.
System; The organization, responsibilities, procedures, resources and processes by which an enterprise plans to achieve its policy and objectives. In this document, unless otherwise stated, system refers to Safety, Health and Environmental Management System, which is the means by which the organization implements its safety, health and environmental policy and objectives. Principal; A person who, in connection with any trade, business, profession or undertaking carried out by him, engages any other person otherwise than under a contract of service:
• To supply any labor for gain or reward; or
• To do any work for gain or reward.
Contractor; Any company or individual engaged by the shipyard to perform work in the shipyard or to provide labor, equipment, facilities or material to be used in the shipyard.