Article 7 Equipment and maintenance
United Kingdom
For the protection of the safety and health of workers, Member States shall take the measures necessary to ensure that, without prejudice to the skipper's responsibility, owners:
ensure that the vessels and their fittings and equipment, particularly those referred to in Annexes I and II, are technically maintained, and that any defects found which are likely to affect the safety and health of workers are rectified as quickly as possible;
take measures to ensure that the vessels and all fittings and equipment are cleaned regularly in order to maintain an appropriate standard of hygiene;
keep on board the vessel an adequate quantity of suitable emergency and survival equipment in good working order;
take account of the minimum safety and health requirements concerning life-saving and survival equipment given in Annex III;
without prejudice to the provisions of Council Directive 89/656/EEC of 30 November 1989 on the minimum health and safety requirements for the use by workers of personal protective equipment at the workplace (third individual Directive within the meaning of Article 16 (1) of Directive 89/391/EEC)f1, take account of the personal protective equipment specifications given in Annex IV to this Directive.
Member States shall take all necessary measures to ensure that, for the protection of the safety and health of workers, the owner supplies the skipper with the means needed to enable him to fulfill the obligations imposed upon him by this Directive,