1.1 Hot work means any work requiring the use
of electric arc or gas welding equipment, cutting burner equipment
or other forms of naked flame, as well as heating or spark generating
tools, regardless of where it is carried out on board a ship.
1.2 The Safety Management System (SMS) on board
should include adequate guidance on control of hot work and should
be robust enough to ensure compliance. Absence of guidance should
be regarded as prohibition, rather than approval.
1.3 Whenever possible, a space such as a workshop
where conditions are deemed safe, should be designated for hot work
to be performed and first consideration given to performing any hot
work in that space.
1.4 Hot work performed outside that space should
be subject to the following considerations.