Name of

international
instrument
and paragraph
ILO
3.8.3
Segregation
Article 2

Details of requirements

PPA
Regulation

Details of requirements

3. Traffic routes in container

handling and container stacking
areas should be at laid out to be
one-way, as far as it is practical to
do so. Traffic lights should be
provided where necessary.

DSHS
Article XVI,
Section 1

D. Trucks and private cars

shall be required to follow
designated routes and
unauthorized vehicles shall
be prohibited from entering
operational areas, most
specially areas where
containers are being
discharged from or loaded to
vessels.

(2) Wherever necessary, the means

of access to a ship should be fitted
with a safety net properly secured so
as to prevent workers from failing
into the water between the ships
side and the adjacent quay.

E. The Arrastre Contractor

and/or terminal owner shall
provide highly visible traffic
and safety signs which shall
be placed in various
strategic areas in order to
guide the movement of
pedestrians and vehicles
inside the container terminal.
F. Safe means of access
shall be provided for
containers that are required
to be examined by customs
officials. In cases where
customs officials need to go
into the stacks, they shall
comply with the prescribed
access procedures of the
terminal with respect to
cargo examination.
E. The Arrastre Contractor
and/or terminal owner shall
provide highly visible traffic
and safety signs which shall
be placed in various
strategic areas in order to
guide the movement of
pedestrians and vehicles
inside the container terminal.

4. If walkways necessary cross

traffic routes, appropriate markings
and signs should be provided on the
walkways and traffic routes, to warn
both pedestrians and drivers. Where
traffic lights are provided they should
give precedence to vehicles.

ILO
3.8.3
Segregation
3.8.4 Reception
facilities

5. The need for the vehicles of

haulers to enter container stacking
areas should be avoided as far as is
practicable. This may be done by
the provision of exchange grids
where vehicles are loaded or
unloaded for example by straddle
carriers.

DSHS
Article XVI,
Section 2

The grid shall be used solely

for the handling and
unloading of containers. An
oversized or problem
container which cannot be
safely handled by the grid
shall be moved to another
area especially designated
for such operation.

4. A safe area where drivers of road

vehicles can stand while containers
are being lifted onto or off their
vehicles should be provided and
clearly marked. The safe area
should be located so that persons in
it are clearly visible to drivers of
straddle carriers as they approach it.
If the area is located between slots
the size of the area should be
determined in the light of the grid
layout, the width of the straddle
carriers and other relevant
operational factors.
3.9.5

5. All public areas, walkways,

ramps, lifts, bridges, etc.,
used by passengers should be
clearly marked with any relevant
weight or other limitations.

F. During loading and

unloading of containers, the
driver shall leave the vehicle
and stand at a safe distance
and shall not return to the
vehicle until the container
lifting equipment had
departed from the grid.

Section 3
Hauling of
Containers

A. The safe operating load of

trucks and containertransport-vehicles shall not
be exceeded.

6.3.1.6

6. All containers arriving at a

terminal by road or rail should be
inspected for damage or tampering
that could affect their safe handling.
If a container is found to be unsafe,
appropriate action should be taken.

Section 4

E. Safe allowable speed

shall be observed -when
hauling containers,
especially when negotiating
road curves and bends,
carrying heavy loads, or
driving during nighttime,
through rains, and low
visibility conditions.
A. Unserviceable or unsafe
vehicles, containers
equipment and facilities shall
be immediately removed
from the operational area
and appropriately marked to
ensure that they are not
used until completely
repaired.

3.5.1. General
requirements

1. The requirement to provide safe

means of access applies to all
places to which persons in ports
need to go in the course of their
work. It includes permanent and
temporary means of access to all
parts of buildings, structures and
mobile plant.

Article XVIII:
Safety of
Dockworkers on
Board Vessel

Section 1 - Access to vessels

should be clearly designated
and entry/exit points should be
adequately built

2. Permanent fixed access should

be provided to all places to which
persons have to go regularly,
including the cabs of mobile
plant.

7.3.1. General
requirements

7.4.1. Hatch
coverings

6.5. Electrical
equipment

9.1.7. Fumes
Article 38

1. Safe means of access about the

ship should be provided for port
workers between the gangway or
other main
Safety and health in ports access
and the holds, deck cargoes,
winches and cranes that are to be
worked.

Section 2, 3 & 4 - Vessel

walkways should be
properly secured to
prevent crew from falling
overboard, regulations for
ladders of varying types
on vessel.

2. Access routes should not pass

under cargo being worked.
1. All hatch covers, hatch beams
and pontoons should
be:
of sound construction and
maintained in good condition;
plainly marked to indicate the
hatch, deck and section
to which they belong, unless all
such items are interchangeable;
fitted with effective locking
devices that prevent them from
being displaced when locked.
5. Portable electric lights should
only be used when adequate
permanent fixed lighting cannot
be provided

4. Preventive measures include:

regular scheduled maintenance of
all terminal vehicles,
including engine tuning and exhaust
systems;
ventilating places where vehicles
operate by natural or
mechanical ventilation to ensure
safe levels;
switching engines off when
vehicles are standing for long
periods;
making initial fume assessments
of individual terminal
vehicles and shore-side premises
where vehicle fumes
may present a problem;
preparing fume profiles of each
hold of a ship in which
vehicles may be operated on a
regular basis;
preparing a plan to ensure that
fumes from such vehicles
on premises and in holds do not
exceed safe levels, and
specifying the maximum number of

Section 6 -warnings
should be given before
opening/closing hatches
and hatches should have a
1.0 meter coaming above.
Section 7 hatches
should be made of
adequate materials and
regularly checked for
defects and/or damages.

Article XXIX
Equipment/
Machineries
and Other
Lifting
Appliances.

Section 11 Portable
lighting
B. Portable lighting shall
be made readily available
C. The use of open flames
in holds shall be
prohibited
Section 1- Preventative
maintenance
A. No
equipment/machineries and
other lifting appliances shall
be placed in service until
they have "been inspected
and tested by the competent
mechanic or maintenance
personnel of the owner and
certified to be in safe
operating condition. Records
of test and inspection shall
be maintained and shall be
available upon request of the
Authority.
Section 2. Safe: operations
B. All equipment/
machineries and other lifting
appliances shall be operated
only by authorized trained
drivers/ operators who have
been accredited by the

engines allowed to
run at any one time;
using electric, LPG- or LNGdriven vehicles where appropriate.

23.31.20

2. A lifting appliance or other cargohandling appliance shall be operated

only by a person who is at least 18
years of age and who possesses
the necessary aptitudes and
experience or a person under
training who is properly supervised.
Every lifting appliance, every item
of loose gear and every sling or
lifting device forming an integral
part of a load shall be - (a) of good design and
construction, of adequate
strength for the purpose for which
it is used, maintained in good
repair and working order and, in
the case of a lifting appliance in
respect of which this is
necessary, properly installed.

authority.

Article XX
Loose Gear

Every item of loose gear

PPA AO 06-99
(DSHS)

a) be of good design and

shall construction, of adequate

strength for the purpose
for which it is used, and
free from defect;
b) be properly maintained

(b) used in a safe and proper

manner and, in particular, shall not
be loaded beyond its safe working
load or loads, except for testing
purposes as specified and under the
direction of a competent person.
5.2.4.2 Safe use

2. Only one person should act as the

signaller for each lifting appliance.
The signaller should be clearly
identifiable to the operator and,
unless responding to an emergency
stop signal, the operator should only
act on the signallers instruction.
Identification can be ensured by a
distinctively colored hat or clothing,
or by radio call sign. Wearing lightcolored sleeves and gloves will
enable signals

Article XX.
Loose Gear
Section 5.
Lifting and
Lowering
Loads
Dockwork
Safety
and
Health
Standards
Article
XXII.
Signalman
Section 1.
General
Provisions

D. A lifting appliance or loose

gear shall not be loaded
beyond the safe working
load.

When a large vehicle or

trailers with heavy load is
being maneuvered, the
driver shall be under the
direction of a signalman and

- The driver shall not move

the load unless the
signalman so directs;
- If at any time the signalman
is not within the field of
vision of the driver, the driver
shall immediately stop the
vehicle;
- The signalman shall satisfy

himself that no person is in a

position of danger.

3.1.2 Surfaces

8. Ramps or slopes used by lift

trucks or other cargo-handling
vehicles should not have a gradient
of more than 1 in 10 unless the
vehicles have been designed to
operate safely on such gradient.

Dockwork
Safety and
Health
Standards
Article XXI.
Movement of
Vehicles on
Board Vessel
Section 1.
Loading and
Unloading
Ramps

The slope of a ramp shall

not exceed ten degrees.