SAFETY EQUIPMENT ACCESSIBILITY ON SMALL COMMERICAL PASSENGER VESSELS

This study provides an assessment of the safety equipment carried on board small commercial passenger vessels (especially tour boats and charter sport fishing boats), the accessibility of that equipment and the general operational safety of these vessels. Investigations made to achieve this objective included a review of Transportation Safety Board reports dealing with small commercial passenger vessels, a review of current applicable Canadian regulations and completion of twenty vessel surveys and candid discussions with owners/operators. Based on this investigation, it was recommended that Transport Canada should: (1) develop and publish guidelines to aid operators in preparing pre-departure briefings to be given to passengers; (2) develop syllabi pertaining to training courses for operators in order to ensure a base level of competency; (3) promote the logging of basic sail plans with an operator's appointed shore-based emergency contact; (4) promote compliance by periodically publishing notifications reminding operators of basic regulatory requirements regarding safety equipment and procedures; (5) issue standards governing the marking of stowage lockers containing safety equipment; (6) ensure that periodic inspections for small passenger vessels are carried out by qualified marine surveyors; (7) continue the modification of regulations pertaining to small passenger operators in consultation with related industry groups and associations; (8) issue immediate detaining orders for vessels that are inspected and found to be non-compliant with safety critical equipment; and (9) create an information resource center for small passenger vessel operators as part of the Transport Canada Web site.

• Record URL:
  http://data.tc.gc.ca/archive/eng/innovation/tdc-summary-13200-13206e-918.htm
• Corporate Authors:

  Transport Canada

  Transportation Development Centre, 800 Rene-Levesque Boulevard West, Suite 600
  Montreal, Quebec  Canada  H3B 2X1

  MIL Systems Engineering

  200-1150 Morrison Drive
  Ottawa, Ontario K2H 8S9,   Canada 
• Authors:
  • Prior, A D
• Publication Date: 1998

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Appendices; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 120 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Compliance; Guidelines; Information services; Inspection; Literature reviews; Marine safety; Passenger ships; Policy; Public private partnerships; Recommendations; Regulations; Safety equipment; Ship crews; Stowage; Surveys; Tour operators; Training; Vessel operations; Websites (Information retrieval); Work boats
• Identifier Terms: Transport Canada
• Geographic Terms: Canada
• Subject Areas: Education and Training; Law; Marine Transportation; Policy; Research; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00938393
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: TP 13206E
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Feb 21 2003 12:00AM