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The Maritime Safety Committee,

  1 The Maritime Safety Committee, at its sixty-first session (7 to 11 December 1992), recognized that chronic exposure to very low concentrations of benzene vapours in air, of the order of a few parts per million, may cause leukaemia.

  2 The Committee, at its sixty-sixth session (28 May to 6 June 1996), desiring to protect the health of seafarers and to keep it at a level similar to that of shore-based workers engaged in similar tasks, approved MSC/Circ.752, by means of which it:

  • .1 approved minimum safety standards for ships carrying mixtures the benzene content of which is 0.5 per cent or more; and

  • .2 invited Member Governments to apply the standards as soon as possible.

  3 The Committee, at its seventy-seventh session (28 May to 6 June 2003), noting that the diseases caused by the aforementioned exposure were still a source of great concern, agreed that MSC/Circ.752 was in need of revision, in particular with respect to cargo operations, which pose the largest risk of crew exposure to vapours from the products carried, and approved Revised minimum safety standards for ships carrying liquids in bulk containing benzene, as set out in the Annex, which also includes an example of precautions to be given to the crew in connection with loading and gas freeing operations.

  4 Member Governments are invited to apply the annexed Revised minimum safety standards for ships carrying liquids in bulk containing benzene, including precautions to be given to the crew in connection with loading and gas-freeing operations appended thereto as soon as possible.

  5 MSC/Circ.752 is hereby revoked.

Parent topic: MSC/Circular.1095 – Revised Minimum Safety Standards for Ships Carrying Liquids in Bulk Containing Benzene – (Adopted on 18 June 2003)
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