Sch 6Sleeping rooms

Schedule 6 Sleeping rooms

(subsection 73(1))

1 For a vessel that is not a passenger vessel, there must be an individual sleeping room for each seafarer.

2 For a passenger vessel, no more than 4 seafarers who do not carry out the duties of vessel officers may be allocated to a sleeping room.

3 There must be separate sleeping rooms for men and women.

4 The sleeping rooms must be arranged and allocated:

(a) to separate watches; and

(b) to ensure that no seafarer working during the day shares a room with a watchkeeper.

5 A sleeping room must be:

(a) properly equipped to ensure the reasonable comfort of occupants. and

(b) designed and arranged to facilitate tidiness.

6 A sleeping room must have, for each occupant, the following items:

(a) either:

(i) a clothes locker, of at least 475 litres, that can be locked by the occupant and has a separate drawer or equivalent space of at least 56 litres; or

(ii) a clothes locker, of at least 500 litres, that can be locked by the occupant and has a drawer and a shelf;

(b) a table or a fixed, drop-leaf or slide-out desk with comfortable seating;

(c) a mirror;

(d) a small cabinet for toiletries;

(e) a book rack;

(f) coat hooks;

(g) curtains or equivalent window coverings for side lights.

7 Furniture in a sleeping room must be made of a smooth, hard, material unlikely to warp or corrode.

8 There must not be any direct openings into sleeping rooms from any of the following areas:

(a) cargo spaces;

(b) machinery spaces;

(c) galleys;

(d) storerooms;

(e) drying rooms;

(f) communal sanitary areas.