RECALLING Article 15(j) of the Convention on the International
Maritime Organization regarding the functions of the Assembly in relation
to regulations and guidelines concerning maritime safety,
RECALLING ALSO its adoption, by resolution
A.864(20), of the Recommendations for entering enclosed
spaces aboard ships, incorporating therein recommendations
for entering cargo spaces, tanks, pump-rooms, fuel tanks, cofferdams,
duct keels, ballast tanks and similar enclosed spaces,
BEING CONCERNED about the continued loss of life resulting
from personnel entering shipboard spaces in which the atmosphere is
oxygen-depleted, oxygen-enriched, toxic or flammable,
BEING AWARE of the work undertaken in this regard by the
International Labour Organization, Governments and segments of the
private sector,
HAVING CONSIDERED the recommendation made by the Maritime
Safety Committee at its eighty-ninth session,
1 ADOPTS the Revised Recommendations for
entering enclosed spaces aboard ships, as set out in the Annex
to the present resolution;
2 INVITES Governments to bring the annexed revised
recommendations to the attention of shipowners, ship operators and
seafarers, urging them to apply them, as appropriate, to all ships;
3 REQUESTS the Maritime Safety Committee to keep
the revised recommendations under review and amend them as necessary;