ORDER OF THE MINISTER OF HEALTH OF THE REPUBLIC OF LITHUANIA
ON APPROVAL OF LITHUANIAN HYGIENIC NORM HN 113:2001
“SHIPS.HYGIENIC NORMS AND RULES”
28 December 2001 No. 671
Vilnius
Pursuant to the list of statutory instruments acts passed before 11 March 1990 and whose validity is
prolonged until 1 January 2002 regulating healthcare activities approved by Order No. 241 “On Approval
of the List of Statutory Instruments Acts Passed before 11 March 1990 and Whose Validity is Temporarily
Prolonged” (Official Gazette, 2000, No. 38-1078) of the Minister of Health of the Republic of Lithuania of
3 May 2000 and seeking to ensure the hygienic control for ships,
1. I approve Lithuanian Hygienic Norm HN 113:2001 “Ships. Hygienic Norms and Rules” (appended).
2. The control over the enforcement of the order shall be entrusted to Vice-Minister Eduardas
Bartkevičius.
MINISTER OF HEALTH
KONSTANTINAS ROMUALDAS DOBROVOLSKIS
______________
APPROVED BY
Order No. 671 of the Minister of
Health of the Republic of Lithuania
of 28 December 2001
LITHUANIAN HYGIENIC NORM HN 113: 2001
“SHIPS. HYGIENIC NORMS AND RULES”
I. SCOPE OF APPLICATION
1. This hygienic norm shall be applicable to seagoing carriers (cargo, passenger, cargo and passenger),
fishing and inland waterway ships registered in the Republic of Lithuania as well as to ships under
construction and reconstruction.
2. This hygienic norm shall be obligatory for ship design, construction and repair organizations, ship
owners, managers, captains and employees undertaking the hygienic supervision of ships.
II. REFERENCES
3. This hygienic norm contains references to the following documents:
3.1. Maritime Shipping Law of the Republic of Lithuania (Official Gazette, 1996, No. 101-2300);
3.2. Law on Safe Navigation of the Republic of Lithuania (Official Gazette, 2000, No. 75-2264);
3.3. Law on Protection of the Marine Environment of the Republic of Lithuania (Official Gazette, 1997,
No. 108-2731);
3.4. Order No. 695 “On Approval of Regulations on the Storage of Perishable Foodstuffs” of the
Minister of Health of the Republic of Lithuania of 27 November 1998 (Official Gazette, 1998, No. 1072941);
3.5. Order No. 416 “On Procedure for Obligatory Hygienic and Medical First Aid Training” of the
Minister of Health of the Republic of Lithuania of 17 July 2000 (Official Gazette, 2000, No. 66-1996);
3.6. Order No. 510 “On Approval of Recommended Daily Nutritional and Energy Norms” of the
Minister of Health of the Republic of Lithuania of 25 November 1999 (Official Gazette, 1999, No. 1022936);
3.7. Order No. 301 “On Preventive Medical Examinations in Healthcare Institutions” of the Minister of
Health of the Republic of Lithuania of 31 May 2000 (Official Gazette, 2000, No. 47-1365);
3.8. Order No. 19 “On Approval of STR 2.09.02:1998 “ Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning”
and Partial Amendment of Order No. 162 of 31/08/1998” of the Minister of Environment of the Republic
of Lithuania of 18 January 1999 (Official Gazette, 1999, No. 13-333);
3.9. Order No. 776 “On Approval of Procedure for the Obligatory Preventive Environmental
Decontamination (Disinfection, Disinsectisation, Disinfestation)” of the Minister of Health of the Republic
of Lithuania of 24 December 1998 (Official Gazette, 1999, No. 3-68);
3.10. Order No. 456 “On Approval of Regulations on Carriage of Passengers and Luggage by Sea” of
the Minister of Transport and Communication of the Republic of Lithuania of 31 December 1999 (Official
Gazette, 2000, No. 12-313);
3.11. Order No. 364 “On Approval of Status of Service on Seagoing Ships of the Republic of
Lithuania” of the Minister of Transport and Communication of the Republic of Lithuania of 28 November
1996 (Official Gazette, 1996, No. 121-2858);
3.12. Order No. 217 “On Approval of Regulations on Waste Management” of the Minister of
Environment of the Republic of Lithuania of 14 July 1999 (Official Gazette, 1999, No. 63-2065);
3.13. Resolution No. 681 “On Approval of Regulations on the Receipt of Goods” of the Government
of the Republic of Lithuania of 12 May 1995 (Official Gazette, 1995, No. 42-1030);
3.14. Order No. 449/254/108 “On Approval of Minimum Requirements for Medical Care Provision on
Ships” of the Minister of Health of the Republic of Lithuania, the Minister of Transport and
Communication of the Republic of Lithuania, the Minister of Social Security and Labour of the Republic of
Lithuania of 24 August 2001 (Official Gazette, 2001, No. 75-2659);
3.15. Lithuanian Hygienic Norm HN 15: 1998 “Food Hygiene. General Requirements” (Official
Gazette, 1998, No. 88-2447);
3.16. Lithuanian Hygienic Norm HN 24: 1998 “Drinking Water. Quality Requirements and
Programmed Supervision” (Official Gazette, 1998, No. 105-2926);
3.17. Lithuanian Hygienic Norm HN 30: 1996 “Public Catering Companies. Hygienic Norms and
Rules” (Official Gazette, 1996, No. 68-1656);
3.18. Lithuanian Hygienic Norm HN 33-1993 “Acoustic Noise: Permissible Levels in Residential and
Working Environments. General Requirements for Measurement Technique” (Official Gazette, 1994, No.
5-80);
3.19. Lithuanian Hygienic Norm HN 34-1993 “Regulation for Medical and Quarantine Protection of
State Frontiers and Territory in the Republic of Lithuania” (Official Gazette, 1995, No. 104-2343);
3.20. Lithuanian Hygienic Norm HN 42: 1999 “Microclimate of Residential and Public Buildings”
(Official Gazette, 1999, No. 5-121);
3.21. Lithuanian Hygienic Norm HN 50-1994 “Vibration Affecting the Whole Human Body. The
Highest Permissible Values And Requirements for Measurements at Workplaces” (Official Gazette, 1995,
No. 104-2343);
3.22. Lithuanian Hygienic Norm HN 55-1995 “Lavatories” (Official Gazette, 1995, No. 104-2343);
3.23. Lithuanian Hygienic Norm HN 73 – 1997 “Basic Radiation Protection Standards” (Official
Gazette, 1998, No. 1-31);
3.24. Lithuanian Hygienic Norm HN 80:2000 “Electromagnetic Field at Work and at Living Places.
Normative Values and Measuring Requirements in 10 kHz-300 GHz” (Official Gazette, 2000, No. 531548);
3.25. Lithuanian Hygienic Norm HN 90: 2000 “Pest Control. Hygienic Norms and Rules” (Official
Gazette, 2000, No. 95-3001);
3.26. Lithuanian Hygienic Norm HN 98:2000 “Natural and Artificial Workplace Lighting”. Limit
Values of Radiation and General Measuring Requirements” (Official Gazette, 2000, No. 44-1278);
3.27. Lithuanian Hygienic Norm HN 109 “Swimming pools. Installation, Maintenance and Control”
(Official Gazette, 2001, No. 64-2376);
3.28. European Agreement “On the International Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Road (ADR)”
(Official Gazette, 1998, No. 106-2931).
III. TERMS AND DEFINITIONS
4. This Hygienic Norm uses the following terms and their definitions:
4.1. Ship
Any type of a self-propelled or non-self-propelled self-floating structure which is being or can be used
for navigation [3.2];
4.2. Passenger ship
A ship for the transportation of no more than 12 passengers [3.2];
4.3. Passenger ferry
A passenger ship, equipped in such a way as to enable road or railway vehicles to drive aboard and to
exit therefrom [3.2];
4.4. Tanker
A ship designed for the transportation or transporting oil and other liquid substances which the ship is
directly filled with [3.3];
4.5. Fishing ship
A ship containing “fishing ship” record in ship documents issued by classification societies and
designed for commercial fishing [ 3.2 ];
4.6. Ship owner
A person, who has the right of ownership to the ship [3.2];
4.7. Ship manager
A person who uses the ship, regardless of the fact whether or not he is the owner of the ship, or makes
use of it on some other legal basis [3.2];
4.8. Passenger
A person being carried by sea under the contract of carriage or, by agreement with a carrier,
accompanying a car or animals being carried under the contract of cargo carriage by sea [3.10 ];
4.9. Ship’s crew
A ship master and other seamen engaged on board the ship in the operation of the ship or provision of
services and whose names are on the list of crew [3.1];
4.10. Ship’s master
A seaman having an appropriate diploma of a seafarer’s rank and being in charge of the ship’s crew and
being in command of the ship [3.1];
4.11. Ship’s management
A ship master, master’s assistants, mechanics, doctor;
4.12. Ship’s voyage
A ship’s trip from one port into another, regardless of the fact whether or not the ship is carrying a
cargo or passengers, or navigates without them. A ship’s voyage also includes time required to load cargo
into or unload it from the ship in a port or to embark or disembark passengers [3.1];
4.13. GT (gross tonnage)
Full maximum capacity of a ship determined in accordance with the International Convention on
Tonnage Measurement of Ships of 1969;
4.14. Washing water
Water obtained on the ship through the desalination of sea water and used for washing and other
household needs whose microbiological indicators comply with the requirements of normative documents
for potable water.
IV. CLASSIFICATION OF SHIPS
5. Seagoing carriers (cargo, passenger, cargo and passenger) are divided into the following categories:
5.1. I category – ships whose voyages last over 5 days as well as ships of an undefined navigation area;
5.2. II category – ships whose voyages last over 24 h, but no less than 5 days;
5.3. III category – ships whose voyages last over 8 h, but no less than 24 h;
5.4. IV category – ships whose voyages last less than 8 h.
6. Fishing ships are divided into the following categories:
6.1. I category – ships of an undefined navigation area which are longer than 65 m, regardless of the
number of crew members;
6.2. II category – ships of an undefined navigation area which are 40 to 65 m long, the number of crew
members does not exceed 40 persons;
6.3. III category – ships of an undefined navigation area navigating at up to 200 mile distance from the
shore or a service depot ship, the length of ships is between 24 and 40 m, the number of crew members
does not exceed 24 persons;
6.4. IV category – ships of a defined navigation area navigating at no more than 100 mile distance from
the shore, their length is between 12 m and 24 m, the number of crew members does not exceed 15 persons,
also included are non-self-propelled ships. Should the number of crew members exceed the value defined
for this category, then the ship shall be assigned to a higher category.
7. Inland waterway ships are divided into the following groups:
7.1. I group - inland waterway ships whose voyage duration exceeds 40 h;
7.2. II group - inland waterway ships on short voyages when during the navigation a part of the crew
periodically works and lives on the ship (up to 40 hours), and the other part of the crew - takes a rest on the
shore;
7.3. III group – interurban, inshore, auxiliary inland waterway ships, i.e. ships where the crew is present
only during hours, and the crew lives on the shore.
V. GENERAL PROVISIONS
8. Ships shall be constructed and reconstructed in accordance with projects, in agreement with the
District Public Health Service.
9. The number of passengers on a ship shall not exceed the number specified in a construction and
reconstruction project.
10. All ships on international voyages shall have a certificate of disinfestation or have a certificate of
the exemption from disinfestation issued by the District Public Health Service [3.19].
11. A basic and periodic health checkup must be given every member of the ship’s crew and he must
receive a document from a medical institution confirming the fact [3.2 ].
12. A crew doctor responsible for the provision of medical assistance shall be present on a ship with a
crew of 50 or more members and navigating on an international voyage for more than 3 months and on a
ship with a crew of 100 or more members and navigating on an international voyage for more than 3 days
[3.14 ].
13. All ships shall have medical supplies (medical equipment, medicines and antidotes[3.14 ].
VI. HYGIENIC REQUIREMENTS FOR SHIP ROOMS
14. Hygienic requirements for living rooms (cabins):
14.1. Members of the ship’s crew shall be accommodated only in living rooms insulated from high and
low temperatures, sound and vibration, electromagnetic fields, impermeable to water, gas, odours from the
power room and cooling equipment, away from storages of hazardous and toxic substances.
14.2. Cabins with individual beds shall be arranged on all ships for members of the crew. Small ships
with under 24 h voyage duration shall have recreation rooms (the number of beds shall correspond to the
number of persons working during one shift). The area of recreation rooms for one member of the crew in a
shift shall be no less than 3 m2.
14.3. When designing and constructing ships, norms for the cabin area shall comply with requirements
specified in Tables 1-3.
Table 1. Norms for the cabin area on seagoing carriers.
Name of rooms
Area norm, m2
Single cabins for the ship's management:
between 1000 and 3000 GT ships,
3000 and more GT ships.
7,5
12,0
Single cabins for other crew members:
between 1000 and 3000 GT ships,
between 3000 and 10000 GT ships,
10000 and more GT ships.
5,0
6,0
6,5
Double cabins for other crew members:
between 1000 and 3000 GT ships,
between 3000 and 10000 GT ships,
10000 and more GT ships.
6,5
7,5
8,5
Triple-bed cabins
10,5
Four-bed cabins
13,5
14.4. On under 1000 GT seagoing carriers, the area of a single cabin can be reduced: for the ship’s
management – to 6,5 m2, for other crew members – to 4,5 m2 , double cabins - to 6,0 m2.
14.5. On passenger ships, the area of a ship’s management cabin can be reduced to 4,5 m2 , double – to
6,0 m2.
14.6. The area occupied by beds, cabinets, tables and chairs shall be included into the total area of
living rooms. The area of cabin’s sanitary installations and small area of irregular shape which cannot be
used for free movement or placement of additional furniture shall not be included.
14.7. On seagoing carriers of 3000 and more GT, the ship’s management, in addition to a cabin, shall
have a personal office or room.
Table 2. Norms for the cabin area on fishing ships.
Cabins
Area norm, m2
Single (for the ship’s management)
Single (for other crew members)
Double
Three-bed
Four-bed
7,5
6,0
7,5
10,0
12,0
14.8. On fishing ships of II category, the area of a single cabin can be reduced to 4,5 m2 , on ships of III
and IV categories – to 4,0 m2.
14.9. On fishing ships of II category, the area of a double cabin can be reduced to 6,5 m2 , on ships of
III, IV categories – to 6,0 m2.
Table 3. Norms for the cabin area on inland waterway ships.
Cabins
Area norm, m2
Single (for the ship’s management)
Single (for other crew members)
Double (with single beds for the ship’s management)
Double (with single beds for other crew members)
Double (with bunk beds for other crew members)
Three- and four-bed (with bunk beds for other crew members)
5,0
4,0
6,8
6,4
4,2
6,5
14.10. The minimum height of crew and passenger cabins when beds are arranged at one level – 2,0 m,
when beds are arranged at 2 levels – 2,2 m. Cabins shall have beds of no more than two levels. Bed
dimensions shall be no less than 1,98 m x 0.80 m.
14.11. It shall be prohibited to place beds next to portholes and openings of the air ventilation system.
14.12. Members of the ship’s crew shall be provided with bedding: mattresses, bedsheets, pillows,
blankets. I and II category ships shall have no less than 3 sets of bedclothes, while III and IV category and
inland waterway ships – no less than 2 sets; their use period – no more than 7 days. On ships where only
recreation rooms with couches are arranged, each crew member shall have 1 set of bedclothes.
14.13. Sleeping berths in cabins of I and II category seagoing passenger ships, and seats in general
saloons of III and IV category ships shall be arranged according to the number of passengers aboard. IV
category ships used during summer season for the carriage of passengers on the weather deck shall be
provided with individual seats: benches on the deck and under deck tents (for the protection against adverse
weather conditions or sun beams). One person shall be provided with a seat of no less than 1,2 m2 .
14.14. I and II category seagoing passenger ships shall have parenting cabins for passengers with
children under 5 years old. 5 parenting places shall be arranged for every 100 of passengers. Parenting
cabins shall be arranged in areas of minimum rolling, noise and vibration. The area of a parenting cabin
shall consist of 1,5 m2 for each child and 2,8 m2 for an accompanying person.
14.15. I and II group inland waterways passenger ships shall have cabins with sleeping berths.
Passenger saloons can have seats with individual chairs.
14.16. On ferries with no more than 30 min. voyage duration, passengers can be carried on decks with
tents.
Table 4. Minimum area of passenger cabins for inland waterways ships.
Area norm, m2
Cabins
Single
Double (with single-level sleeping berths)
Double (with two-level sleeping berths)
Three- and four-bed (with two-level sleeping berths)
I category ships
II group ships
4,0
6,4
4,2
6,5
3,8
6,0
4,0
6,2
14.17. Children shall be provided with cabins that have single-level sleeping berths.
14.18. The area of a passenger saloon for I group inland waterway ships for one passenger - 0,8 m2, II
group – 0,5 m2, III group – 0,4 m2. The distance between rows of chairs shall be no less than 0,54 m, on III
group ships - no less than 0,4 m. A passenger saloon shall have a passageway of no less than 0,6 m, ladder
passageway no less than 0,8 m. General saloons of II group ships shall have no less than 0,5 m bench width
for each passenger.
15. Hygienic requirements for crew catering and recreation rooms:
15.1. The area of a dining room for the ship’s management and a dining room for other crew members
shall be such that one seat is no less than 1 m2.
A dining room for the ship’s management and a dining room for other crew members shall have
household refrigerators for crew members.
15.3. On seagoing carriers of 1000 and more GT and on fishing II and III category ships where separate
recreation rooms cannot be arranged for the crew, a dining room for the ship’s management and a dining
room for other crew members shall be arranged so that it can also be used for resting. Then, the area of a
dining room shall be increased taking into account place required for additional equipment.
15.4. II, III and IV category fishing, I and II group inland waterway ships can have a general dining
room for the entire ship’s crew.
15.5. On III and IV category fishing ships as well as on inland waterway ships, when the crew consists
of no more than 10 persons, a dining room can be combined with the galley.
15.6. On I category cargo and fishing ships, gymnasiums as well as sports and playgrounds shall be
arranged on weather decks for crew members.
16. Hygienic requirements for passenger catering and recreation rooms:
16.1. All seagoing passenger I and II category ships shall have recreation and catering rooms of
passengers (restaurants, dining rooms, bars, buffets, recreation saloons, smoking rooms).
16.2. The area of catering rooms shall be such that one seat has no less than: 1,2 m 2 in restaurants, 1,0
2
m in dining rooms, 0,5 m2 in buffets.
16.3. Buffets shall be arranged on III and IV category seagoing passenger ships, II and II category
passenger inland waterway ships, where no dining rooms can be arranged.
17. Hygienic requirements for swimming pools:
17.1. Sea water for swimming pool filling shall be taken at 5-12 mile distance from the shore.
17.2. On passenger ships with one swimming pool, crew members shall use it during specific hours.
The number of persons simultaneously swimming in the pool shall such that each person has no less than
2,6 m² of the swimming pool area.
17.3. Persons using the swimming pool shall take a shower before using it, and use the footbath near
the swimming pool prior to entering it.
18. Hygienic requirements for hygienic rooms (laundries, drying rooms, ironing rooms, laundry
storages, working clothes storage and drying rooms, hairdressers, lavatories, washrooms, showers):
18.1. I and II category seagoing cargo and fishing ships as well as I and II group inland waterway ships
shall have a laundry for washing personal clothes and working clothes of the crew. Separate washing
machines shall be installed for washing of working clothes.
18.2. Entrance into the laundry shall not be in the vicinity of living, medical and catering unit rooms.
18.3. Clothes drying and ironing rooms shall be in the vicinity of the laundry. A clothes drying room
shall have clothes drying appliances, a mechanic ventilation system, devices for air heating up to 45 0C,
artificial lightning.
18.4. The minimum area of a drying room: for ships with up to 10 crew members - 1,0 m2, for ships
with 11-30 crew members - – 2,0 m2, for ships with over 30 crew members - 3,0 m2.
18.5. A separate room is provided for personal laundry and ironing of clothes of crew members and
passengers on I and II category passenger ships.
18.6. Ships shall have separate storages (cabinets) for cleaned and used linens. Storages (cabinets) for
used linens shall be arranged in the vicinity of a laundry. Table and bed linens shall be stored separately.
18.7. Rooms with individual lockers shall be arranged for the storage of working clothes of crew
members. The cabinets shall be ventilated. Individual lockers for working clothes may not be provided for
on IV category fishing ships. Working clothes can be stored in drying rooms.
18.8. A changing room shall be arranged in the vicinity of the power compartment for crew members of
I and II category ships working in the power compartment. It shall have cabinets for working clothes of
each crew member working the power compartment.
18.9. Rooms with working clothes cabinets for crew members working on decks shall be conveniently
located – in the vicinity of a washroom, shower or drying room.
18.10. Changing rooms with individual lockers for working clothes and drying rooms shall be arranged
in the vicinity of workshops for workers of manufacturing workshops of fishing ships.
18.11. All ships shall have main hygienic rooms (lavatory, washroom, shower). Ships with under 24 h
voyages may not have showers. Hygienic rooms and hygienic equipment (lavatory pan, sink, shower) can
be meant for individual or general use. Individual use hygienic rooms (lavatory, sink and shower) are
arranged in crew and passenger cabins and are meant only for persons living in these cabins.
General use hygienic rooms meant for all crew members and passengers.
18.12. Walls, floor and ceiling of hygienic rooms shall have waterproof finish.
18.13. Bathrooms and shower shall have hot and cold washing water, and all washrooms, including
female hygiene fixtures, - hot and cold potable water.
18.14. It shall be prohibited to arrange entrance into lavatories on the opposite side of catering unit,
dining rooms, restaurants and dining room for the ship’s management.
18.15. General use hygienic rooms are arranged separately for males and females. On I, II, III category
passenger ships, I and II group inland waterway passenger ships with the crew consisting of more than 5
persons, separate hygienic rooms are arranged for the crew.
18.16. General use shower rooms for the crew shall consist of a shower cabin and a cloakroom. Several
shower cabins with separate partition walls and one changing room are allowed to be arranged in one room
for the crew as well as passengers of passenger ships.
18.17. General use washrooms shall be provided with sinks. The area of washrooms shall be such that
users could move freely and use the sinks in a convenient way.
18.18. Lavatory hallways or cabins, if there are no hallways, shall have sinks.
18.19. A separate lavatory shall be arranged for the personal of catering unit.
18.20. It shall be prohibited to arrange general use washrooms, bathrooms and showers in one room
with lavatories.
18.21. The female hygiene room shall have a bidet and a sink. Where there is no separate female
hygiene room, the abovementioned fixtures are arranged in the ladies' room. A separate female hygiene
room shall be arranged on seagoing carriers whose crew consists of more than 30 women, and on fishing
ships hose crew consists of more than 50 women.
18.22. The minimum area of a shower cubicle shall be 0,8 m2, shower cabin - 1,2 m2, individual
sanitary installations (shower, washroom and lavatory pan) - 2,3 m2; sanitary installations consisting of a
lavatory pan and a sink only - 1,5 m2; individual sanitary installations with a bathtub, sink and lavatory pan
– 4,0 m2 (the distance between a bathtub and the opposite wall shall be no less than 0,7 m). The area of a
lavatory cubicle shall be no less than 0,95 m2.
18.23. On I and II category ships with sauna present, its area is calculated so that it can be used
simultaneously by no less than 2 persons. The sauna area shall be no less than 3 m2; the area of a changing
room of sauna - 2 m2, of a shower cabin - 1,2 m2.
18.24. For crew members living in cabins without individual sanitary installations, general use hygienic
rooms are arranged taking into account requirements specified in Table 5.
Table 5. Norms for hygiene fixtures in hygienic rooms of the ship’s crew.
Hygiene fixtures
Number of crew members
Notes
1 sink
an individual
Seagoing cargo
ships
Fishing ships
Inland waterway
ships
6
8
6
Except crew members using
lavatory, washroom, shower
or bathroom. Except lavatories, washrooms, showers and
bathrooms in medical rooms
near catering compartments, hygienic amenity rooms, near power
compartments.
1 shower
6
8
10
1 lavatory pan
6
8
15
1 female hygiene fixture
a ship.
bidet
30
50
-
But no less than 1 fixture on
18.25. On small ships where no provision is made for shower rooms, a washroom shall have flexible
hot water shower.
18.26. I and II category seagoing carriers shall have a lavatory and a washroom in the vicinity of a
wheelhouse for the duty personnel.
18.27. A shower, washroom and lavatory shall be arranged in the vicinity of a changing room for the
crew members of I and II category 1600 GT and more seagoing carriers working in the power
compartment.
18.28. A lavatory for the personnel servicing restaurants shall be arranged on I and II category
passenger ships.
18.29. Separate hygienic rooms (lavatory, washroom, shower) shall be arranged on I and II category
fishing ships if more than 10 persons are working simultaneously in workrooms. A lavatory and sink shall
be arranged if 5-10 persons are working in workrooms. Hygienic rooms shall be arranged in the vicinity of
workrooms.
18.30. A shower and washroom can be arranged in one room on III and IV category fishing ships.
18.31. Individual sinks and general use showers and lavatories are arranged on I and II group inland
waterway ships when the crew consists of 10 and more persons. General use washrooms, showers and
lavatories are arranged on I and II group inland waterway ships when the crew consists of less than 10
persons. General use sanitary installations (lavatory pan, sink, shower) are arranged on III group inland
waterway passenger ships when the crew consists of no more than 6 persons.
18.32. General use hygienic rooms are arranged for passengers living in cabins without individual sinks
or sanitary installations. The number of hygiene fixtures in them is calculated in accordance with norms
specified in Table 6.
Table 6. Norms for hygiene fixtures in hygienic rooms of passenger seagoing ships.
Hygiene fixtures
1 sink
1 lavatory pan
1 shower
Number of passengers (permissible norm)
I,II category ships
III category ships
IV category ships
10
15
20
20
30
-
30
30
-
18.33. IV category passenger ships whose voyage duration is under 2 h and which carry over 30
passengers shall have 1 sink and 1 lavatory.
18.34. I and II group inland waterway passenger ships shall have general use lavatories and showers for
passengers living in cabins and sinks in cabins and lavatories and washrooms for passengers on the ship
with seat-only tickets.
18.35. III group inland waterway passenger ships shall have general use sanitary installations for
passengers and the crew. The number of hygiene fixtures in general use hygienic rooms is calculated in
accordance with norms specified in Table 7.
Table 7. Norms for hygiene fixtures in passenger hygienic rooms of inland waterway ships.
Hygiene fixtures
whose voyage duration is
I and II group passenger ships
III group passenger
Ferries
ships (number of persons)
under 1 h
(number of persons)
Passengers, living in
Passengers with
cabins (number of persons) seat-only tickets (number of persons)
1 sink
1 lavatory pan
1 shower
1 sanitary installation
(sink and
lavatory pan)
30
40
-
25
40
-
50
100
19. Hygienic requirements for medical rooms:
19.1. Medical rooms shall be arranged in a ship part with minimum rolling, noise and vibration,
isolated from the catering unit, away from the power compartment.
19.2. The number of rooms and beds in medical rooms shall be no less than values specified in Tables 8
– 10.
Table 8. Medical rooms on I category seagoing cargo ships.
Room
passengers
name
Units of
900
901-1200
Number of crew members
Number of crew members and
measurement
25 - 40
41-80
80 and
50-100
101-300
301-600
601-
1
1
1
1
2
1
1
3
1
1
3
2
more
Outpatient medical room
Hospital
Number of beds Isolation ward
Number of
1
single-bed
isolation wards
1
1
1
1
2
1
1
4
3
19.3. A medical cabin shall be arranged on I category seagoing carriers with 12 - 24 crew members or
with up to 50 crew members and passengers.
19.4. All seagoing passenger ships shall have an isolation ward.
19.5. I and II category seagoing carriers exceeding 500 GT (with the exception of tugboats) on
international voyages with over 15 crew members shall have a single-bed isolation ward.
Table 9. Medical rooms on II category seagoing carriers.
Room
name
Units of
measurement
Number of crew members
25 - 40
41 -80
81 and
Number of crew members and passengers
101-300
301-600
601-900
901-
1
1
1
1
2
1
1
2
1
1
3
2
1200
more
Outpatient medical room
Hospital
Number of beds Isolation ward
Number of
1
single-bed
isolation wards
1
1
1
1
1
19.6. A medical cabin shall be arranged on III category seagoing ships with 250 and more crew
members and passengers.
19.7. No medical rooms are arranged on IV category seagoing ships.
Table 10. Medical rooms on I category fishing ships.
1
1
Room name
Units of measurement
Number of crew members
41 - 80
81 - 100
101
2
1
2
2
-
200
201 - 300
Hospital
Isolation ward
Number of beds
1
Number of
1
single-bed isolation wards
3
2
19.8. II category fishing ships shall have an outpatient medical room and an isolation ward, and if there
is no doctor – a medical cabin. III category fishing ships with over 20 crew member shall have a medical
cabin.
19.9. I group inland waterway ships with over 25 crew members and inland waterway passenger ships
with 150 – 250 passengers shall have a medical cabin.
19.10. I group inland waterway passenger ships with over 250 passenger shall have an outpatient
medical room and an isolation ward.
19.11. A ship’s hospital and isolation ward shall have a separate sanitary installation (sink, lavatory pan
and bathroom with shower).
19.12. Entrance into the sanitary installation of an isolation ward is arranged only from the isolation
ward room. An isolation ward shall have two entrances: from a weather deck and from indoor. Entrance
from a weather deck shall be arranged through a corridor and shall have a free passageway allowing to
freely carry the sick on a stretcher.
19.13. The area of a single-bed hospital and isolation ward shall be no less than 6 m2, of a double-bed
hospital - 10 m2.
19.14. The access to beds in a hospital and isolation ward shall be provided from three sides (from two
– along the bed and from one - across). The bed size shall be no less than 2,05 x 0,85 m. The passageway
along the bed from one side shall be no less than 0,9 m, from another (across) bed side and one cross side –
no less than 0,6 m.
19.15. Transit installation of pipes and wires through an operating room, sterilization room and
isolation ward shall be prohibited. Pipelining through other medical rooms shall be allowed only behind a
protective wall or in a coating, without using connections. Wiring shall be allowed only in a shielded
coating. Pipes and wires required to service the medical equipment shall be behind a protective wall or in a
coating.
19.16. The area of a medical cabin shall be no less than 5 m2. A medical cabin shall have a soft medical
couch, cabinet for medicines, treatment table, sink with hot and cold water, pedal bin with a lid.
19.17. It shall be prohibited to accommodate crew members and passengers in medical rooms.
20. Hygienic requirements for catering unit rooms:
20.1. The ship owner or manager shall ensure that seamen and passengers are provided with food
innocuous for human health.
20.2. All ships shall have a galley. Main appliances of the galley are an electric fryer, electric boilers,
electric kettle, electric meat grinder, sink for dishwashing, shelves for the dishes, work tables, refrigerator,
foodstuff cabinet and a separate sink for handwashing.
20.3. The size of an electric fryer shall be such that it can be used to prepare three dishes at the same
time. There shall be a passageway to the fryer from no less than three directions. A passageway between
the fryer and other equipment shall be no less than 0,8 m.
20.4. Ships with under 24 h voyage duration may not have a galley. They shall have a room with the
supply of cold and hot water complying with potable water requirements [ 3.16 ]. The room shall have a
refrigerator and food heating equipment.
20.5. Ships where over 100 persons are catered for shall have specialized manufacturing workshops:
meat, fish, vegetable and cold snacks.
20.6. A food distribution room which is also meant for dishwashing shall be arranged next to a dining
room for the ship’s management and a dining room for other crew members. This room shall have a
refrigerator, tables for clean and dirty dishes, cabinets or shelves for drying and storage of the dishes, threecompartment sinks for dishwashing.
20.7. On under 500 GT ships, the dishes shall be allowed to be washed in a galley should there be a
sink for this.
20.8. Seagoing passenger ships shall have a serving room and a separate scullery next to passenger
dining rooms and restaurants.
20.9. No medical, hygienic rooms and rooms spreading poisonous substances, dust and giving off a
pronounced odour shall be in the vicinity of galley rooms and above them.
20.10. Where a galley is arranged on several storeys, there shall be elevators for serving prepared
meals.
20.11. Catering unit rooms shall have no outside water supply.
20.12. Appliances with hot surfaces shall be railed so that the dishes do not fall off during rolling. All
dishes shall have handles and leak-proof lids.
20.13. Catering unit rooms shall have a slope towards a floor drain.
20.14. It shall be prohibited to lay effluent pipes through catering unit rooms.
20.15. There shall be no passageway through catering unit rooms into other rooms.
20.16. The ship shall have the cooling equipment and rooms for the storage of perishable foodstuffs.
20.17. Perishable foodstuffs shall be stored on the ship in a temperature specified in the Regulations on
the Storage of Perishable Foodstuffs approved by Order No. 695 “On Approval of Regulations on the
Storage of Perishable Foodstuffs” of the Minister of Health of the Republic of Lithuania of 27 November
1998 (Official Gazette, 1998, No. 107-2941), with the exception of foodstuffs specified in Table 11.
Table 11. Conditions for the storage of perishable foodstuffs on ships.
Temperature, 0C
Name of a foodstuff
Frozen meat, meat products
Frozen fish, fish products
Butter, fat, smoked meats
6
Eggs, dairy products
Fruit, vegetables, juice
Storing for under 3 months
Storing for 3 to 6 months
Not higher than minus 12
Not higher than minus 12
Between minus 4 and minus 6
Minus 18
Minus 18
Between minus 4 and minus
Between 0 and minus 1
Between plus 2 and plus 6
Between plus 2 and plus 6
20.18. Freezing chambers shall have thermometers.
20.19. An antechamber shall be arranged next to freezing chambers for meat defrosting. It shall have a
meat chopping block.
20.20. Taken on the ship can only be foodstuffs and raw materials for which storage conditions
provided for by a manufacturer are created on the ship [3.4].
20.21. It shall be prohibited to take on the ship:
20.21.1. undrawn poultry meat,
20.21.2. duck and goose eggs,
20.21.3. by-products, except tongues, hearts, livers,
20.21.4. mixed kinds of mushrooms.
20.22. It shall be prohibited to prepare on ships:
20.22.1. curds, cheese, cultured milk foods from pasteurized milk,
20.22.2. pâtés,
20.22.3. mayonnaise,
20.22.4. tomato sauces,
20.22.5. confectionery with cream,
20.22.6. hermetically sealed meat, fish, vegetable, mushroom tinned food,
20.22.7. jellies (always in tropical regions, during summer season – in other regions).
20.23. Ventilated storages shall be arranged for dry products. They shall have shelves arranged at no
less than 0,2 m distance from a wall.
20.24. Meal transportation paths from foodstuff storages shall not pass a weather deck.
20.25. It shall be prohibited to take on foodstuffs and raw materials while performing cargo operations
on the ship involving hazardous, dustable or pronounced odour substances.
20.26. Catering unit rooms shall be supplied with potable hot and cold water.
21. Hygienic requirements for service rooms:
21.1. Radio cabins and a wheelhouse where radio communication, radio navigation and radio location
equipment is installed shall have personnel protection means against the electromagnetic radiation.
21.2. No less than 3 wheelhouse windows shall have light filters.
21.3. The helmsman’s workstation shall have a standing place adjustable for height and comfortable
back support.
21.4. I and II category ships shall have central control units for machinery and control units for the
cooling equipment. Central control units and control units for the cooling equipment shall be indoor, in heat
and sound proof rooms with installed air ventilation or conditioning systems.
21.5. Noise-proof cabins are arranged on III category ships, where control stations cannot be moved
from the engine room to the central control unit and mechanisms are not controlled from the conning
bridge.
22. Hygienic requirements for rooms and tanks, cisterns and other containers for foodstuff
transportation:
22.1. Room walls, ceiling and floor shall be covered with materials resistant to disinfection and
disinsectization substances.
22.2. The bottom of tanks, cisterns and other containers shall have a slope towards the discharge outlet.
Tanks, cisterns and other containers shall have sealable outlets with no lower than 0,4 m fencing. Outlet
lids shall be accessible for sealing. Ventilation pipes of tanks, cisterns and other containers shall pass at no
less than 1,0 m distance above a deck and shall be covered so that no moisture, litter and dust can get inside
containers.
22.3. When designing rooms for foodstuff and water transportation, a provision shall be made for a
separate compartment (cabinets, boxes) for the storage of hose to be used for liquid foodstuff, water intake
and washing, disinfection of tanks, cisterns and other containers. This compartment shall have equipment
for washing and disinfection of hoses.
22.4. Rooms for foodstuff transportation shall be supplied with potable hot and cold water.
23. Hygienic requirements for rooms for the transportation of liquid, gaseous and bulk toxic cargoes:
23.1. Rooms for the transportation of toxic substances shall be arranged so that they protect ship’s room
and ambient air against the contamination with these substances.
23.2. The rooms shall be easily washable and dryable.
23.3. Crew members, dockers performing loading and unloading operations, personnel cleaning these
rooms shall have personal protection equipment.
23.4. A provision shall be made for ships carrying toxic cargoes to have the following rooms:
washroom, rooms for the storage and cleaning of dirty working clothes, tools, personal protection
equipment as well as a room for the storage of air research equipment.
24. Hygienic requirements for the transportation of animals:
24.1. Ships for the transportation of animals shall have rooms where animals could freely lie and stand.
Animal accommodation decks shall be moisture-resistant and shall have liquid waste drainage. Leashes or
barriers shall be arranged to tie large animals, pens confined by nets - for small animals.
24.2. Pets shall be transported in special ship’s rooms. It shall be prohibited to keep animals in
passenger cabins.
24.3. On small ships, animals are transported in cages, and dogs – with compulsory muzzle and leash.
24.4. Animal owners shall have veterinary documents specifying illnesses had by an animal, anti-rabies
vaccination.
25. The protection of ship’s rooms against rodents and insects:
25.1. All water and gas permeable walls, decks, floor shall have no accessible openings, cracks with
over 12,5 mm diameter.
25.2. The insulation of pipes covered with 12,5 mm and thicker insulation in wall outlet areas shall be
reliably protected against being gnawed through by rats.
25.3. When placing the equipment, laying pipes and wire, placing furniture and inventory, measures
shall be taken in order to not create favourable conditions for rodent shelters and access of rodents to ship’s
rooms.
25.4. All doors shall be airtight, there shall be no through cracks with over 12,5 mm diameter.
25.5. External outlets of air supply and removal systems shall have grilles whose cracks cannot be over
12,5 mm in diameter.
25.6. All ship’s mooring cables used to securely moor the ship shall have metal anti-rat guards.
25.7. Having completed loading and unloading operations, networks protecting the cargo from falling
overboard shall be removed immediately, and ship’s ladders shall be lifted above the ground by no less
than 0,4 m.
25.8. When ships are operating in tropical regions, protective meshes shall be used on portholes and
outlets of air supply and removal systems.
26. Hygienic requirements for the transportation of food cargoes:
26.1. Prior to loading, cargo rooms shall be cleaned from residues of a previously transported cargo,
holds shall be washed with water and dried.
26.2. Ships for the transportation of food cargoes shall not be used to transport toxic substances.
26.3. Perishable goods shall be transported by ships equipped with refrigerators.
26.4. It shall be prohibited to carry passengers and any other cargo on water carrying ships.
26.5. When a ship with a water cargo arrives to a port of the Republic of Lithuania, it shall be subject to
a bacteriological and chemical water testing. Water samples shall be taken directly from cisterns.
26.6. Port’s water carrying ships shall be subject to microbiological testing at least once a month.
26.7. When transporting water, all cistern hatches shall be airtight and sealed, water transfer hoses shall
be stored in a separate ship’s room or box.
27. Hygienic requirements for the transportation of the deceased:
27.1. Should a crew member or a passenger die at sea, the deceased person’s body shall be kept in a
metal airtight coffin.
27.2. Where it is not possible to send the deceased person’s body to the shore, the coffin shall be placed
in a freed freezing chamber. Having taken out the corpse, the chamber shall be washed and disinfected.
VII. HYGIENIC REQUIREMENTS FOR SHIP SYSTEMS
28. Hygienic requirements for heating, ventilation and conditioning systems:
28.1. The ship shall have heating, ventilation and (or) conditioning systems.
28.2. The microclimate of ship’s rooms is characterized by three parameters: temperature, relative
humidity, air speed. One, two or three parameters are normalized depending on the purpose of rooms.
28.3. Having installed ventilation and heating systems in ship’s rooms, the microclimate shall comply
with norms specified in Table 12.
Table 12. Hygienic norms for the microclimate of ship’s rooms.
Name of rooms
is 10 oC and higher
When outdoor air temperature is no less than 10 oC
When outdoor temperature
Air temperature, oC
Air
Relative
Air
Indoor air temperature
humidity, %
speed, m/s
exceeds outdoor
speed, m/s
temperature
by, oC
1. Living rooms
20
Under 0,5
40 - 60
0,15 - 0,25
No more than 5
2. Restaurants, dining rooms, buffets,
20
Under 0,5
40 - 60
0,15 - 0,25
-
3. Indoor swimming pools
25
Under 0,5
-
-
-
4. Gymnasiums, sports cabins
20
Under 0,5
40 - 60
-
-
5. Roofed promenade decks,
18
Under 0,5
-
-
-
No less than 16
Under 0,5
-
0,15 - 0,25
No more than 8
bars, cafés, smoking rooms,
saloons, cinemas, libraries,
reading rooms
lobbies, anterooms,
corridors, tambours
6. Laundry and ironing rooms
7. Drying rooms
45
-
-
-
-
8. Amenity service rooms:
20
Under 0,5
40 - 60
0,12 - 0,25
No more than 5
9. Showers, bathrooms, baths,
cloakrooms
25
-
-
-
-
10. Washrooms, individual
sanitary installations with a bathtub
(shower)
20
-
-
-
-
11. Lavatories
16
-
-
-
-
12. Medical
21
Under 0,5
40 - 60
0,15 - 0,25
No more than 5
13. Operating rooms
25
Under 0,5
40 - 60
0,15 - 0,25
No more than 5
14. Catering unit rooms:
16
Under 0,7
-
Under 0,5
No more than 8
16
Under 0,5
-
-
No more than 5
18 - 20
Under 0,5
40 - 60
0,15 - 0,25
No more than 5
No less than 12
1,0 - 1,5 (working
-
0,3 - 0,5
-
shop (custom clothing, shoe repair),
hairdressers, photographer's studio
rooms: hospitals, isolation wards,
outpatient medical room, special
doctor’s offices, drugstores
galley rooms (galleys,
bakeries, confectionery workshops,
food heating rooms),
dishwashing room, kettle rooms
(with heat generation at work
places)
15. Meat, fish, vegetable
preparation rooms, buffets,
bread slicing rooms
(without heat generation at work
places)
16. Administrative rooms,
laboratories
17. At work places next to
mechanism control units when
(working area)
area)
there is no central control unit (CCU)
18. At work places next to
mechanism control units when
mechanisms are controlled remotely
from CCU
-
-
-
No more than 10
19. Central control unit
18 - 20
Under 7
40 - 60
Under 0,3
No more than 5
20. Workshops and other workrooms
16
Under 0,7 (working
-
Under 0,3 (working No more than 8
with mechanisms and equipment
area)
area)
without heat generating
sources
21. Workshops and other workrooms
with mechanisms and equipment
with heat generating
16
1,5
40 - 60
Under 0,3
-
-
sources
22. Storage rooms (for linen,
carpets, sporting
equipment)
No less than 10
-
-
-
-
28.4. The conditioning system (hot-air heating with feed air humidification) or hot-water heating
system can be used for heating of rooms.
28.5. Steam heating can be used in the power compartment and hygienic rooms.
28.6. When conditioning, the temperature of air supplied to ship’s rooms shall not exceed 40 0 C.
28.7. The heating equipment shall a temperature regulator.
28.8. Heating appliances shall be installed by a side and outer walls. It shall be prohibited to install
heating appliances next to bed ends and under beds.
28.9. It shall be prohibited to lay main pipes through cabins, medical and public rooms.
28.10. The ventilation of ship’s rooms shall be mechanic (supply and removal) or natural.
28.11. The natural air ventilation can be arranged on ships without direct current as well as on
under 500 GT ships.
28.12. When calculating the power of a ventilation system, not included in calculations shall be airing
through portholes as well as skylights.
28.13. All air intake equipment shall be in such places that no polluted air, gas, water and snow could
get inside it.
28.14. The natural and mechanic air supply system of dry-cargo ships carrying bulk cargoes shall be
equipped with filters.
28.15. Stand-alone ventilation systems shall be designed in rooms where the discharge of toxic gases
and specific odours can occur (in the power compartment, medical rooms, hygienic, hygienic and amenity
rooms). Catering unit rooms, lavatories next to cabins, accumulator room, drying room shall have a standalone mechanic ventilation system. Mechanic ventilation systems in other ship’s rooms shall be allowed to
be connected given identical hygienic requirements for air of these rooms.
28.16. The air distribution equipment of a mechanic ventilation system located in a working area shall
have conveniently controllable adjustment devices adjusting air speed and direction.
28.17. Outlets of a mechanic ventilation system in a galley, bakery, dishwashing room shall be located
above a heat generating source (fryer, pan, baking over, dishwashing area).
28.18. At main work places of catering unit rooms with heat generating sources (next to work tables,
etc.), air being fed shall be supplied by adjusting its speed and direction.
28.19. The power compartment shall have a mechanic air supply and removal system.
28.20. Air being fed shall be supplied into working areas of rooms, into permanent residence of
workers and repair yards.
28.21. Should there be no central control unit, a provision shall be made for air supply into mechanism
control stations of the power compartment.
28.22. Areas of fuel and oil separators shall have a local air removal system with pipes located in the
bottom part of a room.
28.23. On I and II category ships, an air conditioning system shall be installed in living, public,
medical, service rooms and in the central control unit, catering unit rooms (without heat generating
sources).
28.24. Ships without an air conditioning system shall be prohibited to navigate in tropical regions.
28.25. A conditioning system is installed on III and IV category ships in case they navigate in 1st and
2nd navigation regions (Annex 1).
28.26. The equipment of an external air supply and removal system shall be located so that removed air
could not get inside the equipment of the air conditioning system.
28.27. A provision shall be made for supply and recirculation air cleaning from dust in air conditioning
systems.
28.28. Air conditioning systems shall be equipped with the equipment for automatic air temperature
and humidity control. In case of the automatic control, fluctuations of air temperature shall not exceed 2 oC,
and of relative air humidity – 10 per cent.
29. Hygienic requirements for water supply systems:
29.1. Each ship shall have sufficient amount of potable and washing water.
29.2. Potable water supplied for the ship’s crew and passengers shall comply with requirements for
potable water [3.16].
29.3. Washing water is obtained on the ship through the desalination of sea water. In case water is
desalinated through distillation at the vaporization temperature exceeding 800 C, it can be used for washing
and other household needs. When desalinating water using other means, it shall be disinfected before use.
29.4. Sea water used to obtain washing water through the desalination shall be taken at no less than 25
mile distance from the shore.
29.5. A separate water supply system shall be arranged on the ship for washing water.
29.6. The supply of potable and washing water on the ship as well as the capacity of cisterns for its
storage shall be calculated depending on the determined navigation autonomy and taking into account
minimum water consumption specified in Table 13.
Table 13. Norms for minimum water consumption on ships.
Water (litres)
Minimum daily water norm per 1 person aboard
I category
II category
III category
IV
Carriers:
Potable
Washing
50
100
40
90
20
30
10
10
Fishing ships”
Potable
Washing
50
100
40
90
30
40
30
40
I group
II group
III group
75
70
40
35
15
10
category
Inland waterway
ships:
Potable and washing water:
For crew members
For passengers
29.7. Potable water shall be supplied into all distribution points of catering unit and medical rooms, into
saturators, into antechambers of foodstuffs storages, into all sinks and bidet. Washing water is supplied into
bathrooms, showers, baths and laundries.
29.8. Outside water can be supplied into the swimming pool. Washing or outside water can be used to
wash lavatory pans and urinals. On fishing ships, outside water can be used in fish processing workshops to
wash the equipment, fishing gear and floor.
29.9. Potable water shall be stored in cisterns, with the exception of double bottom cisterns as well as
afterpeak and forepeak tanks. Cisterns shall have no common walls with effluents, fuel, oil cisterns.
29.10. Washing water shall be stored in forepeak and afterpeak tanks, with the exception of double
bottom cisterns.
29.11. Potable and washing water tanks, pipes and fittings shall be made of a corrosion-resistance
material or shall have an anti-corrosive coating.
29.12. Potable water cisterns shall have hermetically sealable openings for cleaning, inspection and
repair. The cistern’s bottom shall have a slope and a drainage hole.
29.13. It shall be prohibited to install potable water cisterns in the vicinity of heat sources.
29.14. Potable and washing water systems shall be stand-alone, have no connections with other systems
(ballast, fire or outboard).
29.15. Potable and washing water pipes cannot pass through cisterns meant for the storage of other
liquids, pipes of other cisterns – through potable and washing water cisterns.
29.16. Each ship shall have a potable water transfer hose. The hose shall be marked "potable water". It
shall be stored in a special cabinet or box (marked). Ends of the hose shall have protective nozzles.
29.17. Potable water transfer hoses shall only be used in accordance with their original intended
purpose and shall not be used for other purposes.
29.18. Potable water is received from the port’s water supply system or water carrying ships.
29.19. The ship shall be prohibited to take fresh water from non-centralized water supply systems or
directly from water bodies.
29.20. Should potable water be stored in cisterns for over 10 days at no higher than 100 C temperature,
water shall be subject to preventive disinfection prior to use.
29.21. Water shall be supplied on the ship only through port’s hoses using special hydrants.
29.22. Water containers shall be inspected, cleaned and disinfected at least once a year. Should the
anti-corrosive coating of containers be damaged, the containers shall be repaired.
29.23. Disinfection of water containers shall be performed:
29.23.1. prior to entry into service of the ship;
29.23.2. after repair of the water supply system or inspection of the anti-corrosive coating of water
containers;
29.23.3. in case bacteriological indicators of water do not comply with requirements of hygienic
normative acts after the second preventive disinfection.
29.24. All operations relating to repair of water containers shall be performed when the ship is in port.
30. Hygienic requirements for effluents, oil polluted water and litter removal systems:
30.1. Effluents include waste water from lavatories, medical rooms and animal storage rooms.
30.2. Oil polluted water consists of water with any content of oil.
30.3. Household and domestic water includes waste water from baths, bathrooms, sinks, laundries,
galley and other catering unit rooms.
30.4. Litter consists of all types of food, household and operational waste, with the exception of fresh
fish and its trimmings.
30.5. A provision shall be made for ships with the number of crew and passengers exceeding 10
persons to have effluents collection or storage (treatment) cisterns and equipment for effluents discharge
outboard or their transfer into reception facilities.
30.6. Ships with effluents treatment and decontamination facilities shall have the common effluents,
household and domestic water collection and processing system. Ships without effluents treatment and
decontamination facilities shall be allowed to have separate effluents, household and domestic water
collection and storage systems.
30.7. The capacity of cisterns shall correspond to the amount of effluents, household and domestic
water determined in accordance with time the ships is sanitary protection areas, territorial waters, inland
waters. The capacity of effluents, household and domestic water collection cisterns is calculated in
accordance with norms specified in Table 14.
Table 14. Minimum norms for effluents, household and domestic water.
Ship category
Effluents
daily norm per 1 person
aboard, litres
Household and domestic water
daily norm per 1 person aboard,
litres
Total, litres
I and II
III and IV
50
30
150
70
200
100
30.8. Effluents collection cisterns shall be made of steel. Their internal surface shall be easy to clean.
Effluents cisterns shall have openings through which cleaning operations and disinfection can be performed
and shall have air pipes. When laying air pipes of effluents cisterns on a deck, it shall be necessary to
ensure that air of ship’s rooms is not polluted.
30.9. Collection cisterns shall be separated by air from potable and washing water cisterns, and also
from rooms for the transportation of foodstuffs, living, medical, public rooms.
30.10. The effluents pipeline cannot pass through medical, catering unit rooms, foodstuffs storages,
potable and washing water cisterns.
30.11. Effluents from an isolation ward shall be drained using a separate pipe into a separate cistern or
into treatment and decontamination facilities.
30.12. Treated effluents can be discharged in territorial waters and sanitary protection areas if such
effluents comply with hygienic requirements specified in Table 15.
Table 15. Hygienic norms for treated effluents.
Analyte name
Seagoing ships
Inland waterway ships
Biochemical oxygen demand, BOD5
No more than 50,0
No more than 50,0
MgO2/dm³
Materials in suspension mg/dm³
No more than 100,0
No more than 50,0
Residual chlorine mg/dm³
1,5 – 5,0
1,5 – 5,0
Colon bacillus (E.coli) count in 100 ml
No more than 250
No more than 100
30.13. When the ship is navigating in regions where any discharge of effluents is prohibited, water
discharge valves shall be shut off and sealed.
30.14. The discharge of untreated effluents outside territorial waters of a coastal country (over 12 miles
to the nearest shore) is possible when the ship's speed is no less than 4 knots and if such a discharge is
performed gradually and no visible solid particles appear on the water surface and the water surface colour
does not change.
30.15. When trawling and hauling, using outside water for fish treatment on all categories of fishing
ships with the crew of 10 and more persons, there shall be operating effluents treatment facilities. Should
the ships have no treatment facilities or they are faulty, all effluents is collected into a collection cistern,
and then discharged from the ship outside the fishing area.
30.16. In order to ensure the protection of sea from oil pollution, each ship shall have corresponding
equipment for the collection, filtration and removal of oil polluted water, and also the equipment preventing
spillage and leakage of oil polluted water from the ship.
30.17. Oil polluted water from all ship’s machinery, boiler rooms and ballast from fuel tanks shall be
allowed to be discharged only after being filtered. The residual oil content shall not exceed 15 million –1
(ppm). The discharge shall be continuously controlled using a special device (annunciator) while
navigating and at no less than 12 mile distance from the nearest shore. Where the abovementioned
conditions are not met, the discharge shall be prohibited, and oil polluted water and oil residues shall be
kept aboard, and later transferred to reception facilities.
30.18. Each ship shall have facilities for litter collection, processing (size-reduction), incineration or
storage before being transferred into shore reception facilities.
30.19. Litter collection (containers), processing and incineration facilities shall be isolated from living
and general use rooms. The containers shall have lids, shall be easy to clean and disinfect.
30.20. The productive capacity of litter collection, processing and storage facilities shall be calculated
taking into account the daily litter generation norm, the number of persons aboard and the duration of the
ship’s navigation in a litter disposal prohibition area.
30.21. The minimum daily estimate norm of litter generation per capita: dry domestic litter - 0,002 m³;
solid food waste - 0,003 m³.
31. Hygienic requirements for lightning:
31.1. Public and living rooms of the crew and passengers, medical rooms as well as service rooms shall
have natural lightning.
31.2. Artificial lightning of the ship shall comply with norms specified in Table 16.
Table 16. Norms for artificial lightning of ship’s rooms.
No.
Room
Lightning, lx
General
Combined
1
Service rooms:
Wheelhouse
Chart house, radio cabin, etc.
75
150
2
Power compartment
150
3
Central control station
400
200
4
Workrooms (workshops, etc.)
150
5
Work and technological rooms (fish, seafood processing, etc.)
300
6
Passenger and crew cabins
400
200
7
Doctor’s offices
500
200
8
Laundries
100
9
Restaurants and buffets
200
10
Medical cabins, hospitals
Operating rooms
Isolation wards
300
400
150
11
Sports rooms
200
12
Recreation saloons, libraries
400
200
13
Corridors, ladders, tambours
75
14
Cargo storage rooms (holds)
50
32. Protection against noise and vibration:
32.1. A provision shall be made for ships to have the protection against noise produced by man noise
sources: main engine, diesel generators, navigation and radio equipment, air ventilation and conditioning
systems.
32.2. A provision shall be made for ships to have the protection against vibration occurring due to
unbalanced main engine, diesel generators, lead screws.
32.3. The ship design shall make a provision for protective means against noise and vibration:
32.3.1. selection of a main engine, diesel generators, compressors, fans and other equipment with best
vibroacoustic specifications;
32.3.2. rooms where noise and vibration are normalized shall be at the maximum distance from noise
and vibration sources, and have rooms between them where noise and vibration are not normalized (nonresidential rooms) or where relatively high levels of noise and vibration are allowed (periodically attended
rooms);
32.3.3. remote control of engines and mechanisms producing significant noise and vibration;
32.3.4. use of noise absorbing materials in rooms with noise sources;
32.3.5. covering of ceiling with vibration absorbing materials in rooms with vibration sources.
32.4. The ship design shall provide estimated noise and vibration calculations confirming the efficiency
of anti-noise and anti-vibration measures provided for.
32.5. Ship owners shall be obliged to control noise and vibration levels and reduce their deleterious
effect on crew members and passengers.
Table 17. Permissible noise levels in living and work rooms.
No.
Room
Sound pressure levels, dB; in octave bands, Hz
Sound level
LA dBA
31,5
63
125
250
500
1000
2000
4000
8000
1
Passenger and crew cabins
I category ships
83
67
57
49
44
40
37
35
33
45
2
Passenger and crew cabins
II category ships
86
71
61
54
49
45
42
40
38
50
3
Passenger and crew cabins
III category ships
90
75
66
59
53
50
47
45
44
55
4
Passenger and crew cabins
IV category ships
93
79
70
63
58
55
52
50
49
60
5
Service rooms
(wheelhouse, chart house, radio
kabinos ir kt.)
I and II category ships
93
79
70
63
58
55
52
50
49
60
6
Service rooms (wheelhouse,
chart house, radio cabin,
etc.) III and IV category
ships
96
83
74
68
63
60
57
55
54
65
7
Power compartment
with continuous monitoring
113
103
96
91
88
85
83
81
80
90
8
Periodically attended
power compartment (with
remote control from
central control units)
116
107
101
95
93
90
88
86
85
95
9
Power compartment
without monitoring
123
114
109
105
102
100
98
96
95
105
10
Central control unit
100
87
79
72
68
65
62
61
59
70
11
Workrooms
in power compartments
110
99
92
86
83
80
78
76
74
85
12
Workrooms
(workshops, etc.)
in non-power compartments
100
87
79
72
68
65
62
61
59
70
13
Work places on weather
decks and compartments
100
87
79
72
68
65
62
61
59
70
14
Work and technological rooms
(fish, seafood
processing, etc.)
in fishing rooms
107
95
87
82
78
75
73
71
69
80
15
Recreation saloons, cinemas,
libraries
96
83
74
68
63
60
57
55
54
65
16
Sports grounds on weather
decks and promenade
decks
100
87
79
72
68
65
62
61
59
70
17
Sports
rooms
96
83
74
68
63
60
57
55
54
65
18
Restaurants and buffets
93
79
70
63
58
55
52
50
49
60
19
Doctor’s offices
93
79
70
63
58
55
52
50
49
60
20
Medical cabins,
hospitals, operating rooms,
isolation wards
83
67
57
49
44
40
37
35
33
45
32.6. Instead of permissible vibration values, root mean square levels for octave band frequencies of Lv
(dB) oscillation speed values with 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 63 Hz centre frequencies are determined according to
formula:
;
5×10-8 m/s – adopted relative standard value corresponding to the root mean square oscillation speed
value at 1000 Hz sound frequency and 2×10-5 N/m2 pressure.
The oscillation speed value can also be determined according to Table 20.
32.7. The norm of vibration for rooms depends on the purpose of a room, exposure duration and crew
working conditions according to the established classification of ships.
32.8. Maximum permissible vibration levels on ships are determined in accordance with limit spectra
according to Lv value from Tables 18 and 19 or corresponding to acceleration values from Tables 21 and
22. Order numbers of limit spectra specified in Table 18 whose values in decibels are normalized in octave
bands are presented in Tables 19 and 21. The maximum permissible excess of the norm - no more than 2
dB in only one of any octave bands.
Table 18. Permissible vibration norms on ships.
Room name
number of
Order
limit
spectrum RS (Lv)
Table 2
and RS (L )
Table 4
Power compartment, boiler rooms:
with continuous monitoring
3
with periodical attendance (with sound- and vibration-insulated stations or units, when
the duration of daily exposure for one worker does not exceed 120 minutes)
2
Insulated control units
3
Workrooms
3
Service rooms
4
Living and public rooms:
I and II category seagoing ships as well as I group river ships whose voyage duration exceeds 24 h
in one direction, i.e. to a destination wharf or port
6
III category seagoing ships and II group river ships whose voyage duration does not exceed 24 h in one direction,
i.e. to a destination wharf or port
5
IV category seagoing ships and III, IV group river ships whose voyage duration does not exceed 8 h
in one direction, i.e. to a destination wharf or port
4
Medical rooms
7
Table 19. Limit spectra for vibration levels according to RS (Lv) speed when V0=5×10-8m/s.
RS (Lv) number
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
Centre frequencies of octave bands, Hz
2
63
4
8
16
32
115
101
112
98
106
92
101
87
96
82
91
77
86
72
107
104
102
101
104
101
99
98
98
95
93
92
93
90
88
87
88
85
83
82
83
80
78
77
78
75
73
72
Table 20. Relation between oscillation speed levels in decibels and values in absolute units.
dB
Speed, m/s
dB
Speed, m/s
dB
Speed, m/s
dB
Speed, m/s
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
1,58×10-6
1,77×10-6
1,99×10-6
2,23×10-6
2,51×10-6
2,81×10-6
3,16×10-6
3,54×10-6
3,97×10-6
4,46×10-6
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
2,23×10-5
2,51×10-5
2,81×10-5
3,16×10-5
3,54×10-5
3,97×10-5
4,46×10-5
5,00×10-5
5,61×10-5
6,30×10-5
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
3,16×10-4
3,54×10-4
3,97×10-4
4,46×10-4
5,00×10-4
5,61×10-4
6,30×10-4
7,07×10-4
7,93×10-4
8,89×10-4
99
100
101
102
103
104
105
106
107
108
4,46×10-3
5,00×10-3
5,61×10-3
6,30×10-3
7,07×10-3
7,93×10-3
8,89×10-3
9,98×10-3
1,12×10-2
1,26×10-2
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
5,00×10-6
5,61×10-6
6,30×10-6
7,07×10-6
7,93×10-6
8,89×10-6
9,98×10-6
1,12×10-5
1,26×10-5
1,41×10-5
1,58×10-5
1,77×10-5
1,99×10-5
7,07×10-5
7,93×10-5
8,89×10-5
9,98×10-5
1,12×10-4
1,26×10-4
1,41×10-4
1,58×10-4
1,77×10-4
1,99×10-4
2,23×10-4
2,51×10-4
2,81×10-4
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
9,98×10-4
1,12×10-3
1,26×10-3
1,41×10-3
1,58×10-3
1,77×10-3
1,99×10-3
2,23×10-3
2,51×10-3
2,81×10-3
3,16×10-3
3,54×10-3
3,97×10-3
86
87
88
89
90
91
92
93
94
95
96
97
98
Table 21. Limit spectra for vibration levels according to RS (Lv) acceleration when
RS (L ) number
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
1,41×10-2
1,58×10-2
1,77×10-2
1,99×10-2
2,23×10-2
2,51×10-2
2,81×10-2
3,16×10-2
3,54×10-2
3,97×10-2
4,46×10-2
5,00×10-2
109
110
111
112
113
114
115
116
117
118
119
120
=3×10-4m/s2.
0
Centre frequencies of octave bands, Hz
2
4
8
16
32
63
61
58
52
48
42
37
32
60
57
51
45
41
36
31
62
59
53
48
43
38
33
66
63
57
52
47
42
37
71
68
62
57
52
47
42
77
74
68
63
58
53
48
Table 22. Relation between oscillation acceleration levels in decibels and values in absolute units.
dB
Speed, m/s
dB
Speed, m/s
dB
Speed, m/s
dB
Speed, m/s
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
3,00×10-3
3,37×10-3
3,78×10-3
4,24×10-3
4,76×10-3
5,33×10-3
5,98×10-3
6,72×10-3
7,54×10-3
8,45×10-3
9,49×10-3
1,06×10-2
1,19×10-2
1,34×10-2
1,50×10-2
1,69×10-2
1,89×10-2
2,12×10-2
2,38×10-2
2,67×10-2
3,00×10-2
3,37×10-2
3,78×10-2
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
4,24×10-2
4,76×10-2
5,33×10-2
5,98×10-2
6,72×10-2
7,54×10-2
8,45×10-2
9,49×10-2
1,06×10-1
1,19×10-1
1,34×10-1
1,50×10-1
1,69×10-1
1,89×10-1
2,12×10-1
2,38×10-1
2,67×10-1
3,00×10-1
3,37×10-1
3,78×10-1
4,24×10-1
4,76×10-1
5,33×10-1
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
5,98×10-1
6,72×10-1
7,54×10-1
8,45×10-1
9,49×10-1
1,06
1,19
1,34
1,50
1,69
1,89
2,12
2,38
2,67
3,00
3,37
3,78
4,24
4,76
5,33
5,98
6,72
7,54
89
90
91
92
93
94
95
96
97
98
99
100
101
102
103
104
105
106
107
108
109
110
8,45
9,49
10,6
11,9
13,4
15,0
16,9
18,9
21,2
23,8
26,7
30,0
33,7
37,8
42,4
47,6
53,3
59,8
67,2
75,4
84,5
94,9
32.9. In order to check the efficiency of measures ensuring the permissible sound and vibration level, it
shall be necessary to measure sound and vibration levels while the ships is operating in the main mode. The
measurements are performed in the course of sea trials after a repair or reconstruction which could result in
the change of sound and vibration level in rooms and decks. The measurements are performed in ship’s
rooms and workplaces for which sound and vibration norms are specified.
32.10. The scope and duration of additional measures for noise and vibration reduction at workplaces
and in rooms where the violation of hygienic norms has been identified during ship’s trials shall be agreed
on with the District Public Health Service. Having implemented additional measures, vibroacoustic tests
shall be re-run in the main part of the ship.
33. Protection against infrared rays:
33.1. The ship’s crew shall be protected against the unfavourable effect of long-wave infrared rays. The
surface of equipment’s pipes and partitions presenting the source of such radiation shall be insulated
(sealing, heat insulation, shielding, heat removal). The intensity of infrared radiation at 1 cm distance from
the surface of hot equipment in a working area shall not exceed 0,20 cal/cm during 2 minutes or the
temperature of equipment’s hot surfaces at workplaces shall not exceed 400C.
33.2. Flat-surface insulation shall be used in order to reduce the intensity of infrared radiation. Walls,
shipboards, ceiling, mechanisms, equipment, pipes shall be light coloured.
34. Cleaning operations on tankers:
34.1. Cleaning of tanks on tankers shall be mechanized when there is no-one in them and following all
measures to protect the environment against pollution. Tanks used to transport toxic cargoes are cleaned
only after airing.
34.2. All operations in tanks of tankers (manual washing, collection of solid impurities, etc.) are
performed only having aired rooms as well as using the equipment for personal protection against the effect
of vapour of oil products.
34.3. The mechanic ventilation system shall be operating while cleaning tanks of tankers.
34.4. Should the content of toxic substances in air exceed the maximum permissible content, it shall be
prohibited to enter the tanks.
34.5. The duration of all operation inside a tank (manual washing, collection of solid impurities, etc.)
cannot exceed 30 minutes, with 15 minutes of rest period on the upper deck after 30 minutes.
34.6. The shift duration of cleaning operations, including rest periods, cannot exceed 6 hours.
34.7. Persons feeling weak, nauseous, dizzy shall discontinue work and leave the tank.
34.8. After transporting oil products, tanks can be cleaned only while the ship is port and only after
airing.
34.9. Tanks being used to transport ethylated oil products can be cleaned only with a doctor aboard.
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Annex 1
NAVIGATION REGIONS
1. First region: Regions of the Pacific, Indian and Atlantic Oceans (30° North to 30° South latitude), the
Persian Gulf, the Gulf of Mexico, the Red Sea.
2. Second region: Regions of the Pacific, Indian and Atlantic Oceans (30° to 45° North latitude and 30°
to 45° South latitude), the Southern part of the Sea of Japan, Yellow and Mediterranean Seas.
3. Third region: Regions of the Pacific, Indian and Atlantic Oceans (45° to 60° North latitude and 45°
to 60° South latitude), the Southern part of the Bering Sea and the Sea of Okhotsk, the Baltic Sea, the
Northern part of the Sea of Japan, Azov, Black and Caspian Seas.
4. Fourth region: The Greenland Sea, Northern Sea Route, Chukchi Sea, the Northern part of the Bering
Sea and the Sea of Okhotsk, the Laptev Sea, Norwegian, Greenland and White Seas, Pacific and Atlantic
Oceans (from 60° North and South latitude).
5. Fifth region: not limited.
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