Chapter:	413H	Title:	MERCHANT SHIPPING (SAFETY) (DANGEROUS GOODS AND MARINE POLLUTANTS) REGULATION	Gazette Number:	64 of 1999
Section:	3	Heading:	General duties of shipowners, employers and masters	Version Date:	05/11/1999

(1) Every shipowner, employer of persons aboard a ship and every master of a ship, shall ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, that when any dangerous goods are being carried, stowed, or handled on the ship or loaded onto or unloaded from the ship, nothing in the manner in which those goods are carried, stowed, handled, loaded or unloaded as the case may be, is such as might create a risk to the health or safety of any person.
(2) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1), the matters to which the duty of the shipowner, the employer or the master extends, shall include in particular -

(a) the provision and maintenance of ship's equipment for the handling, stowage and carriage of dangerous goods, which shall be, so far as is reasonably practicable, safe and without risk to health;
(b) the provision of such information, instructions, training and supervision as is necessary to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the health and safety aboard the ship of employees in connection with the handling, stowage and carriage of dangerous goods on the ship.