The Tanzania Shipping Agencies (Cargo Security and Safety of Terminal Operations) Regulations, 2023

This section says the report should summarize the incident facts and note any deaths, injuries, damage, or affected owners, with supporting documents attached as needed.

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Jurisdiction: Tanzania
Instrument: Regulation
Citation: The Tanzania Shipping Agencies (Cargo Security and Safety of Terminal Operations) Regulations, 2023
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accident analysis cargo security evidence collection incident information incident reporting incident summary investigation maritime transport reporting reporting data risk management safety actions safety compliance safety investigation safety recommendations shipping terminal operations vessel registration voyage particulars

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This section says the report should summarize the incident facts and note any deaths, injuries, damage, or affected owners, with supporting documents attached as needed. This section says the incident report part should include details about the terminal, its licence and permits, staff qualifications and schedules, alcohol test results, and the terminal’s recent safety-compliance status. This section says the factual-information part may be skipped if the incident did not occur on board a ship. This section lists ship particulars to be recorded: flag/register, identification, ownership and management, construction details, and authorised cargo. This provision lists voyage particulars that must be provided: ports of call, type of voyage, cargo information, and manning.

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AI-assisted research summary: This section says the report should summarize the incident facts and note any deaths, injuries, damage, or affected owners, with supporting documents attached as needed.

1.0 SUMMARY This part outlines the basic facts of the incident: what happened, when, where and how it happened; it also states whether any deaths, injuries, damage to the ship, cargo, third parties or environment occurred as a result and whether ship owner/ cargo owner/ property owner affected by the incident is informed. Documentary evidences, testimonies, pictures/ photos should be enclosed as necessary or applicable.
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AI-assisted research summary: This section says the incident report part should include details about the terminal, its licence and permits, staff qualifications and schedules, alcohol test results, and the terminal’s recent safety-compliance status.

2.0 DETAILS OF TERMINAL INVOLVED IN THE INCIDENT This part should provide name of the terminal, operational licence number issued by the Corporation and validity, necessary permits to handle by relevant public authorities including GCLA, TAEC, Fire, as applicable in accordance with these Regulations. This part should also specify names and qualifications of operations staff (for both the terminal and clients) involved in the work when the incident occurred with evidence of the qualifications attached, their experience, their working schedules for the last 7 days before the incident and results of alcohol tests for the staff. This part shall also state status of terminal’s consistent compliance with safety requirements by relevant authorities for the past 1 year to-date.
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AI-assisted research summary: This section says the factual-information part may be skipped if the incident did not occur on board a ship.

3.0 FACTUAL INFORMATION This part may be skipped if the incident did not occur on board a ship. This part includes a number of discrete sections, including, in particular, the following information: 36 Tanzania Shipping Agencies (Cargo Security and Safety of Terminal Operations) Regulations GN. NO. 381 (Contd)
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AI-assisted research summary: This section lists ship particulars to be recorded: flag/register, identification, ownership and management, construction details, and authorised cargo.

3.1. Ship particulars Flag/register, Identification, (a) Ownership and management, (b) Construction details, (c) Authorised cargo.
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AI-assisted research summary: This provision lists voyage particulars that must be provided: ports of call, type of voyage, cargo information, and manning.

3.2. Voyage particulars (a) Ports of call, (b) Type of voyage, (c) Cargo information, (d) Manning.
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AI-assisted research summary: This provision lists the information to record for a marine casualty or incident.

3.3. Marine casualty or incident information (a) Type of marine casualty or incident, (b) Date and time, (c) Position and location of the marine casualty or incident, (d) External and internal environment, (f) Human factors data, (g) Consequences (for people, ship, cargo, environment, other)
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AI-assisted research summary: This provision is a citation-style heading about shore authority involvement and emergency response, listing who was involved, the means used, response speed, actions taken, and results achieved.

3.4. Shore authority involvement and emergency response (a) Who was involved, Means used, (b) Speed of response, Actions taken, Results achieved.
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AI-assisted research summary: This part describes how to reconstruct a casualty or incident chronologically and what details to include.

4.0 NARRATIVE This part reconstructs the casualty or incident through a sequence of events, in a chronological order leading upto, during and following the casualty or incident and the involvement of each actor. Specific responses actions by date and time (in hours and minutes) of the terminal; relevant public authorities, the port operator, port users and consumer of port services and the general public should be given. This part also includes any relevant details of the safety investigation conducted, including the results of examinations or tests. 37 Tanzania Shipping Agencies (Cargo Security and Safety of Terminal Operations) Regulations GN. NO. 381 (Contd)
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AI-assisted research summary: This section says the report should analyze each accident, discuss relevant test results and any safety actions already taken, and explain contributing factors and policy implications.

5.0 ANALYSIS This part includes a number of discrete sections, providing an analysis of each accident, with comments relating to the results of any relevant examinations or tests conducted during the course of the safety investigation and to any safety action that might already have been taken to prevent accident and casualties. It should also account for experience from other ports or the same port in the past. These sections should cover issues such as: (a) accidental event context and environment, (b) human erroneous actions and omissions, events involving hazardous material, environmental effects, equipment failures, and external influences, (c) contributing factors involving person-related functions, shipboard operations, shore management, documentation and information correctness and communication timeliness or regulatory influence. The analysis and comment enable the report to reach logical conclusions, establishing all of the contributing factors, including those with risks for which existing defences aimed at preventing an accidental event, and/or those aimed at eliminating or reducing its consequences, are assessed to be either inadequate or missing. This part should state policy implications, if any.
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AI-assisted research summary: This part summarizes the contributing factors and missing or inadequate defences, and says safety actions should be developed to prevent marine casualties.

6.0 CONCLUSIONS This part consolidates the established contributing factors and missing or inadequate defences (material, functional, symbolic or procedural) for which safety actions should be developed to prevent marine casualties.
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AI-assisted research summary: The report may include safety recommendations, and they are directed to those best placed to carry them out.

7.0 SAFETY RECOMMENDATIONS When appropriate, this part of the report contains safety recommendations derived from the analysis and conclusions and related to particular subject areas, such as legislation, design, procedures, inspection, management, health and safety at work, training, repair work, maintenance, shore assistance and emergency response. The safety recommendations are addressed to those that are best placed to implement them, such as ship owners, managers, recognized Organisations, maritime authorities, vessel traffic services, emergency bodies, international maritime organizations and European institutions, with the aim of preventing marine casualties. This part also includes any interim safety recommendations that may have been made or any safety actions taken during the course of the safety investigation. Dodoma 18th May, 2023 MAKAME M. MBARAWA Minister for Works and Transport 38 Tanzania Shipping Agencies (Cargo Security and Safety of Terminal Operations) Regulations GN. NO. 381 (Contd) 39

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