Deck and engine ratings and other personnel employed on HSC must undergo a training programme appropriate to their duties on board. 

Subject to the exceptions for emergencies allowed under regulation 8, to ensure that a seafarer is provided with at least the minimum hours of rest. (This duty also applies to the managers of franchises on ships such as passenger ships. )

By entering their ships with a P&I club (more formally called a protection and indemnity association).

For a bulk carrier of 150m in length or more of single side skin construction built before July 1999, any cargo carried on or after the implementation date specified in SOLAS Regulation XII/3 and declared to have a density of between 1250 and 1780 kg/m3 must have its density verified by an accredited testing organisation, unless the ship complies with all the relevant requirements applicable to the carriage of solid bulk cargoes with a density of 1780 kg/m3 and over.

(1) General Training; and (2) Approved Training (which, in the UK, means MCA-approved training).

The launching of lifeboats and rescue boats should normally take place when the ship is alongside or at anchor with little or no tide or current. Where there is actual or effective headway, such launching should be carried out in accordance with the guidelines in MSN 1722.

An initial survey of cargo ship safety equipment shall include an inspection of the fire safety systems and appliances, life-saving appliances and arrangements except radio installations, the shipborne navigational equipment, means of embarkation for pilots and other equipment to which Chapters II-1, II-2, III and V of the 1974 SOLAS Convention apply, to ensure that they comply with the requirements of the relevant regulations, and they are in satisfactory condition and are fit for the service for which the ship is intended. In addition the fire control plans, nautical publications, lights, shapes, means of making sound signals and distress signals shall also be subject to this survey.

An official (and, in many countries, public) record of ships entitled to fly a State's flag. The register may be computerised (like the UK's) or paper. 

Emergency instructions, illustrated where possible, must be displayed in each passenger cabin, in passenger assembly or muster stations and in other passenger spaces.

On receiving goods into his charge, the carrier, the master or the carrier's agent, if the shipper demands, must issue a bill of lading to the shipper showing, amongst other things:

Each Company should develop, implement and maintain a safety management system (SMS) that includes six functional requirements. (Para. 1. 4)

Their capabilities as regards health and safety. (Reg. 12)

To ensure that they obtain adequate rest.

An area where the adoption of special mandatory measures for emissions from ships is required to prevent, reduce and control air pollution from NO2 or SO2 and particulate matter or all three types of emissions and their attendant adverse impacts on human health and the environment. Emission Control Areas shall include those listed in, or designated under, regulations 13 and 14of the revised MARPOL Annex VI.

They must be trained to be sufficiently familiar with the design and operational limitations affecting ro-ro passenger ships and the tasks designated in Paragraph 2, STCW Code A-V/2. The practical elements of this training can be undertaken on board under supervision, but some instruction is also necessary.