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These pages are
part of OSHA's commitment to provide employers and maritime workers with
information and assistance to help in complying with OSHA standards and in
ensuring a safe workplace.
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- MACOSH Page:
The Maritime Advisory Committee for Occupational Safety and Health (MACOSH) is a
committee which provides additional viewpoints to OSHA on maritime safety
issues. This page provides MACOSH contacts, workgroup assignments, meeting
minutes, and recommendations.
- The next meeting is tentatively scheduled for
December 7-9, 2004 in Norfolk, VA.
- Maritime
Enforcement Information: Links to OSHA
 compliance information including
directives, letters of interpretation, Review Commission decisions, and crane
certification, and to the OSHA Office of Maritime Enforcement.
- Maritime
Safety and Health Topics: Provides access to maritime publications and training
materials, as well as web pages addressing specific maritime topics.
- The Longshore
Industry Green Book is now available. For a paper copy, please contact the Publications
Office.
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Longshoring and Marine Terminals: Hazard Abatement Summaries. OSHA
Directorate of Science, Technology and Medicine Publication (2002, October).
- Safety and Health Injury Prevention Sheets (SHIPS). Directorate of Science, Technology, and Medicine (2002, October) 33 pages, 7.3 MB PDF. Shipyard
operating in the United States often do not have the benefit of full-time,
on-board safety and health specialists. To meet this need and help prevent
injuries, the shipyard community and OSHA have jointly developed Safety and
Health Injury Prevention Sheets (SHIPS).
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 Shipyard Employment: Ship Repair - Shipyard work has traditionally
been hazardous, with an injury-accident rate more than twice that of
construction and general industry. OSHA has targeted the industry in its
Strategic Plan to reduce injuries and illnesses and prevent fatalities. This
eTool addresses the entire 1915 regulation as it pertains to Ship Repair which
includes activities such as altering, converting, installing, cleaning,
painting, and maintaining vessels.
- Maritime Alliances and Partnerships
National Alliances
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Secretary Henshaw with representatives from three different
shipbuilding organizations that have signed National Alliances. From
left to right: Richard McCreary, Shipbuilders Council of America;
Steve Strom, National Shipbuilding Research Program and Paul Robinson,
American Shipbuilding Association. |
Regional Alliances
- Region I - Braintree Area Office
- Region IV - Jackson Area Office
- Region VI - Baton Rouge Area Office
- Region IX
- Region X
Strategic Partnerships (Shipyards and Ship Building and Repair Industry)
- Region III
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Metro Machine Company/International Brotherhood of Boilermakers/Delaware
County Community College - Philadelphia Ship Disposal
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South Tidewater Association of Ship Repairers (STASR)
- Region VI
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Shipbuilders Council of America (SCA)
- Region IX
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Port of San Diego Ship Repair Association (PSDSRA)
Voluntary Protection Program
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