PART 4DUTIES OF OTHER PERSONS

Duties of other persons16.

(1)

Where a person on whom a duty is imposed by any of the preceding provisions of these Regulations does not have control of the matter to which that provision relates because responsibility for the operation of the ship falls upon another person, that duty also extends to any other person who has control of that matter.

(2)

It is the duty of every worker while at work on a ship in relation to which these Regulations apply—

(a)

to make full and proper use of any work equipment provided by the employer in pursuance of these Regulations for that worker’s use for work at height; and

(b)

to comply with any instruction or training for the purposes of health or safety provided to that worker under—

(i)

regulation 9, 10 or 11 of the Merchant Shipping and Fishing Vessels (Provision and Use of Work Equipment) Regulations 2006; or

(ii)

regulation 7, 10 or 16 of the Merchant Shipping and Fishing Vessels (Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment) Regulations 2006; or

(iii)

regulation 21 of the General Duties Regulations,

in so far as the instruction or training concerns work equipment to which these Regulations apply.