TRAINING OF INSPECTORS OF LABOUR CONDITIONS ON BOARD FISHING VESSELS

The fisheries sector produces one of the world’s most valued sources of food, yet fishers’ working and living conditions are particularly challenging. The course thus equipped inspectors with the knowledge and tools to promote and ensure decent working conditions on board fishing vessels. OBJECTIVES • Understand the international instruments regulating work in fishing. • Learn how to prepare and conduct inspection of working and living conditions on board fishing vessels. • Acquire knowledge of tools and techniques to identify and remedy non-conformities, as well as to promote decent working and living conditions in fishing. CONTENT The E-learning course has been an opportunity to update knowledge and to facilitate a better understanding of the following topics: • The international regulatory framework: inspection and enforcement challenges; the Work in Fishing Convention, 2007 (No. 188) with focus on definitions, scope of application and competent authorities; other international instruments and tools. • What is to be inspected: roles and responsibilities, valid documents, crew list, fisher’s work agreement, manning, hours of rest, medical certificates and medical care, occupational safety and health, food and water, accommodation, payment of fishers, minimum age, recruitment and repatriation, complaint mechanisms, actions to remedy deficiencies. • Tools and techniques for securing decent living and working conditions on board fishing vessels. NUMBER OF HOURS: 15 hours