1 The Maritime Safety Committee, at its eighty-sixth
session (27 May to 5 June 2009), with a view to providing specific
guidance on the construction, installation, maintenance and inspection/survey
of means of embarkation and disembarkation such as accommodation ladders
and gangways required under regulation
II-1/3-9 of the 1974 SOLAS Convention, approved the Guidelines
for construction, installation, maintenance and inspection/survey
of means of embarkation and disembarkation, prepared by the Sub-Committee
on Ship Design and Equipment at its fifty-second session, as set out
in the annex.
2 Member Governments are invited to bring the
attached Guidelines to the attention of shipowners, shipbuilders,
designers, manufacturers, port State control authorities and other
parties concerned in conjunction with SOLAS
regulation II-1/3-9 (Means of embarkation on and disembarkation
from ships).