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Key industry stakeholders

Port Skills and Safety (PSS)

The aim of PSS is to encourage and promote high standards of health and safety and a highly skilled workforce within the ports industry. PSS is core funded through subscriptions, and is open to all port related organisations.

It has a leading role in:

  • production and publication of industry specific guidance material. It has recently produced a series of 'Health & Safety in Ports' guidance sheets which are designed to support the Safety in Docks ACOP (L148) and cover a range of port issues
  • organising the Port Skills and Safety Group (PSSG)
  • developing National Occupational Standards for the industry
  • providing technical advice on any issues relating to health, safety, skills and standards in the ports industry

Port Skills and Safety website[31]

Trade Unions

HSE supports the vital contribution health and safety representatives and trade unions make to maintaining and improving health and safety in the workplace.

HSE places great importance on worker involvement and consultation, which has proved to be key factor to improving health and safety in the workplace.

Within the Ports industry, the main unions that we engage with are Unite the Union and Nautilus.

Department for Transport (DfT)

The Department for Transport was set up to provide a stronger focus on delivering the Government's transport strategy. Their role is to set strategy and policy context, and to manage relationships with the delivery agencies.

The Maritime Coastguard Agency (MCA)[33] and the Marine Accident Investigation Branch [MAIB][34] are part of DfT. HSE works closely with both organisations in areas of shared interest and where the expertise of one organisation can assist the other. The work of MAIB in accident investigation is to discover the cause with a view to preserve life and avoid accidents in the future. It does not apportion blame.

Department for Transport (DfT)[35]

Link URLs in this page

  1. Ports and dockshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/ports/index.htm
  2. Overview - Ports industryhttps://www.hse.gov.uk/ports/hse.htm
  3. Key industry stakeholdershttps://www.hse.gov.uk/ports/stakeholders.htm
  4. Enforcing authoritieshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/ports/enforcing.htm
  5. Overview - Legal requirementshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/ports/legal-requirements.htm
  6. Dangerous goods - (DGHAR) https://www.hse.gov.uk/ports/dangerous-goods.htm
  7. Fishing vesselshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/ports/fishing-vessels.htm
  8. FAQs on ports and dockshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/ports/faqs.htm
  9. Overview - Freight container safetyhttps://www.hse.gov.uk/ports/containers.htm
  10. Freight container regulationshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/ports/regulations.htm
  11. Container design and manufacture approvalhttps://www.hse.gov.uk/ports/container-approval.htm
  12. Container examination schemeshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/ports/container-examination.htm
  13. RAIB - accident reportshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/ports/raib.htm
  14. Overview - Topicshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/ports/topics.htm
  15. Workplace transporthttps://www.hse.gov.uk/ports/transport.htm
  16. Lifting operationshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/ports/lifting-operations.htm
  17. Working at heighthttps://www.hse.gov.uk/ports/falls.htm
  18. Dusty cargoeshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/ports/dusty-cargoes.htm
  19. Musculoskeletal disordershttps://www.hse.gov.uk/ports/msd.htm
  20. Whole-body vibrationhttps://www.hse.gov.uk/ports/vibration.htm
  21. Slips and tripshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/ports/slips-and-trips.htm
  22. Confined spaceshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/ports/confined-spaces.htm
  23. Overview - Access to vesselshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/ports/access-to-vessels.htm
  24. Linkspans and walkwayshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/ports/linkspans-walkways.htm
  25. Standards at quayside ladders https://www.hse.gov.uk/ports/quayladder.htm
  26. Overview - Resourceshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/ports/resources.htm
  27. Publications and guidancehttps://www.hse.gov.uk/ports/publications.htm
  28. Case studieshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/ports/case-studies.htm
  29. Statisticshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/ports/statistics.htm
  30. Useful linkshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/ports/links.htm
  31. Port Skills and Safety websitehttp://www.portskillsandsafety.co.uk/
  32. Unite the Union websitehttp://www.unitetheunion.org/
  33. Maritime Coastguard Agency (MCA)https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/maritime-and-coastguard-agency
  34. Marine Accident Investigation Branch [MAIB]http://www.maib.gov.uk/home/index.cfm
  35. Department for Transport (DfT)http://www.dft.gov.uk/
  36. L148 - Safety in docks. ACOPhttps://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/books/l148.htm
  37. L155 - Dangerous goods in harbour areas Regs 2016https://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/books/l155.htm
  38. Container approval - Green guidehttps://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/dis8.htm
  39. Container examination - Yellow guidehttps://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/dis9.htm
  40. Quick guide to health and safety in portshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/indg446.htm
  41. Port Skills and Safety https://www.portskillsandsafety.co.uk/resources
  42. Department for Transport - Portshttps://www.gov.uk/transport/ports-harbours-and-offshore-installations
  43. International Maritime Organisation (IMO)http://www.imo.org/
  44. Port skills and safetyhttps://www.portskillsandsafety.co.uk/resources
  45. Logisticshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/logistics/index.htm
  46. Risk managementhttps://www.hse.gov.uk/risk/index.htm
  47. Explosivehttps://www.hse.gov.uk/explosives/index.htm
  48. Work equipmenthttps://www.hse.gov.uk/work-equipment-machinery/index.htm
  49. Work at heighthttps://www.hse.gov.uk/work-at-height/index.htm
  50. Workplace transporthttps://www.hse.gov.uk/workplacetransport/index.htm

Glossary of abbreviations/acronyms on this page

DGHAR
Duties under the Dangerous Goods in Harbour Areas Regulations 2016
RAIB
Rail Accident Investigation Branch
ACOP
Approved Code of Practice

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Updated 2022-07-07