DEVELOPMENT AND MANAGEMENT OF INSPECTION SYSTEMS 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 showed how to develop efficient inspection systems based on sound planning, management and cooperation amongst the parties involved. OBJECTIVES • Understand the international instruments regulating work in fishing. • Learn how to identify the challenges of effective and coordinated inspection systems. • Gain ability to prioritize target vessels (as workplaces), vulnerable groups of fishers. •Gain capacity to identify the labour issues to be inspected. • Gain capability to develop policies, procedures and tools for inspecting labour conditions on fishing vessels. • Gain ability to organize the resources of the inspection services. • Learn how to advise fishing vessel owners, skippers, and - in particular - fishers and workers' organizations as well as other relevant stakeholders on the best way to comply with the labour regulations and promote decent working and living conditions on fishing vessels. • Know tools to promote decent working and living conditions in fishing. CONTENT • 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. • Planning and managing of inspection systems: risk analysis, strategic and inspection planning, coordination among agencies, establishing complaint procedures; reporting and data, role of Port States, training of inspectors. • What is to be inspected: roles and responsibilities, valid documents, crew list, fisher’s work agreement, manning, hours of rest, medical certificates and care, occupational safety and health, food and water, accommodation, payment of fishers, minimum age, recruitment and repatriation, complaint mechanisms. • Fundamental principles and rights at work. • Tools for mapping the fishing sector. NUMBER OF HOURS: 25