A2 45 min
Maritime labour law on board and in crewing
The crew’s rights and the owner’s duties in day-to-day operation
Maritime labour law is the part of the rulebook a port state control officer can check without any technical equipment: employment agreement, hours of work records, complaints procedure. The course walks through the crew’s rights and the operator’s duties along the papers that must be on board.
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What you can do after the course
These are the learning objectives as defined for the course. The final test measures against them.
You determine the personal and material scope of maritime labour law on board merchant ships.
You check seafarers’ employment agreements against the statutory formal requirements and mandatory particulars.
You monitor compliance with maximum hours of work and minimum hours of rest in daily shipboard operation.
You take the correct steps under the statutory on-board complaints procedure.
What the course stands on
The legal sources of this course, retrieved article by article instead of summarised, not second hand.
Richtlinie 2009/13/EG — Seearbeitsübereinkommen (MLC 2006) in der Union
Open source ↗ · eur-lex.europa.euWhat happens inside the course
Not a table of contents, but the course itself: the chapters, the scenes it plays, and what the final test measures.
Chapters
- Fundamentals and Scope
- Seafarer's Employment Agreement and Shipowner's Obligations
- Working Hours, Rest Periods, and Safety Drills
- Health Protection, Catering, and Medical Care
- Complaint Procedures and State Controls
Question formats in the final test: Multiple choice · Single choice · True/False
How the course runs
The course follows a storyline on board and ashore, with the same people as the other sixteen.
Several question formats, pass mark set in the course, retakes possible.
Issued automatically on passing, with date and course version: presentable to class and port state control.
SCORM export for an existing LMS on board; otherwise browser access, on request without a personal e-mail address.
Explainer film
Two minutes, the same three people.
The film shows how a rule becomes a course, and how an inspection goes for someone who prepared for it.
See this course during the trial
Fourteen days, all seventeen courses in full, no payment details. Which of them apply to your fleet, and who receives them, is what the fit conversation settles.
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