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CASHES POLICY

As a matter of policy, PAN AFRIQUE MARITIME LTD, will conduct all its activities in such a manner that, health, safety, environment and security will be guaranteed. All persons involved in our operations will be protected. In this regard, we will pay particular attention to production and conversion of the environment. In implementing this policy, we shall conform to the requirements of the relevant legislation, as well as promote appropriation for the protection of health and the environment.

We are convince that in other to achieve and maintain the highest possible safety standards, the same parameters as obtainable for achieving high quality performances should be applied.

It is our responsibility to ensure that all our employees understand the importance of basic and standard CASHES practices. Furthermore, the company expects her employees to exercise an acceptable level of self discipline at all times, so as to avoid injuries to themselves and other persons, lost to company and damage to environment as we hope to work with government, industries, academicians, professional bodies and other employees of other representatives.

Safety is not a project. It is a process. Accordingly, we undertake the responsibility to train categories of staff continuously to enhance their awareness and increase their effective participation and contribution to CASHES matters. We further undertake to ensure that our subcontractor will be appropriately informed on guidelines of CASHES practices.

ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION POLICY:

PAN AFRIQUE MARITIME LTD operations shall be planned and executed in such a manner so as to minimize any adverse effect or impact on the environment in which we operate. The trust of the planning and execution of our work shall be environmental protection and preservation.

In the course of our operation, all wastes generated shall be collected, handled, treated and disposed in an environmentally friendly manner. The discharge into air or water bodies of any form of pollutants is forbidden. All regulations/registration on environmental issue by government agencies such as Federal Environment Protection Agency (FEPA) is binding on us.

COMMUNITY AFFAIRS POLICY:

PAN AFRIQUE MARITIME LTD shall continue to identify with the needs and aspirations of her clients and the host community in the execution of its operation.
The company is in the view that it shall operate and therefore shall liaise with client’s host communities, relevant government departments and others in order to ensure a safe and peaceful working atmosphere,
The company shall also ensure the building and sustenance of a solid harmonious relationship with clients and communities and shall exhaust every known peaceful strategy to resolve conflicts in case of any disagreement.

COMPANY EMPLOYMENT ETHICS POLICY:

  • THE COMPANY DO NOT RECRUIT SEAFARER UNDER 16 YEARS OLD
  • THE COMPANY DOES NOT CONDONE GENDER DISCRIMINATION ON EMPLOYMENT
  • JOB VACANCIES ARE FOR FREE AND FOR ANY ELIGIBLE APPLICANT
  • NO PROSPECTIVE SEAFARER OR STAFF SHOULD INDUCE ANY STAFF WITH OR SOLICIT FOR ANYTHING WITH THE MOTIVE OF GETTING OR GIVING JOB
  • ANYONE FOUND GUILTY ON ABOVE MENTIONED POLICIES WILL FACE SEVERE DISCIPLINARY MEASURES

DATA PRIVACY POLICY:

INFORMATION COLLECTION AND USE

We collect several different types of information for various purposes to provide and improve our services to you.

We may also collect your information at events hosted/organized by/for the company regardless of if such event is a physical or virtual event.

Types of Data Collected

Personal Data:While using our services, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you (“Personal Data”). Personally, identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:

Name and Contact Data: We collect your first, middle and last name, email address, bank verification number, postal address, phone number, signature, date of birth, an identification document such as a copy of driver’s license, international passport, national identity card, and other similar contact data.

We might also collect personally identifiable information of third parties (like your next of kin, guarantor, etc.) for several purposes with the goal of granting you access to our services. Such purposes include but are not limited to reference check, security background check, etc.

Credentials: when you apply to any of our services, you may be required to provide a professional certificates and similar documents used for authentication. While this information is required to ensure that we carry out business transactions securely, appropriate security measures have been implemented to protect these data including encryption and storage in a secured environment, if required.

USE OF DATA

The purpose of collecting personally identifiable information is to enable us to provide you with the manning and crewing services you have subscribed to and ensure that you are able to carry out duties without hitches.

The usage of data may be extended beyond the above whenever necessary for the purposes of meeting legal, regulatory, contractual obligations, and other legitimate business interests.

Specifically, the uses the company could put your data into include but not limited to:

  • To provide and maintain our services
  • To notify you about changes to our service
  • To provide customer care and support
  • To comply with Laws and Regulations
  • To comply with our Internal Policies
  • To provide analysis or valuable information so that we can improve our services
  • To detect, prevent and address technical issues
  • To facilitate account opening
  • To send you marketing and promotional communications for business purposes
  • To deliver targeted advertising to you for our Business Purposes and/or with your consent. We may use your information to develop and display content and advertising (and work with third parties who do so) tailored to your interests and or location and to measure its effectiveness

TRANSFER OF DATA

The world today is interconnected and so is the provision of manning and crewing services. For instance, there could be many counterparties involved for manning and crewing to be successfully completed. These include the shipping companies, maritime administration, etc. Certain personal data will traverse these parties in the normal course of carrying out transactions.

Save as related to the provision of manning and crewing services and meeting legal, regulatory, contractual, and other uses tangential or incidental to these, PAML will not share your personal data with a third party. Where it becomes necessary to do so, adequate security measures will be taken to protect the data from access by recipients other than those for which it is intended. All data we collect will reside in PAML’s computer systems in Nigeria. Where cloud services are used, adequate governance measures that apply to such cloud services will be complied with.

Pan Afrique Maritime Ltd will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy. No transfer of your Personal Data will take place to anorganization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.

DISCLOSURE OF DATA

We only share and disclose your information in the following situations:

Performance of Contractual Obligations: We may disclose your date to perform and conclude a contract for the interest of the Data Subject. The interest of the Data Subject includes but is not limited to provision of financial services.

Compliance with Laws: We may disclose your information where we are legally required to do so in order to comply with applicable law, governmental requests, a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process, such as in response to a court order or a subpoena (including in response to public authorities to meet national security or law enforcement requirements).

Vital interests and Legal Rights: We may disclose your information where we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding potential violations of our policies, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person and illegal activities, or as evidence in litigation in which we are involved.

Vendors, Consultants and Third-party Service Providers: We may share your data with third party vendors, service providers, contractors oragents who perform services for us or on our behalf and require access to such information to do that work, which is necessary to provide the envisaged manning and crewing services. Examples include but not limited to: payment processing, data analysis, email delivery, customer service. For the purpose of service improvement, we may allow selected third parties to use tracking technology on the services which will enable them to collect data about how you interact with the services over time. This information may be used to, among other things, analyze and track data, determine the popularity of certain content and better understand online activity. Unless described in this policy, we do not share, sell, rent, or trade any of your information with third parties for their promotional purposes.

With your consent we may disclose your personal information for any other purpose.

Security of Data

The security of your data is important to us. We have implemented appropriate technical and organizational security measures designed to protect the security of any personal information we process. However, please also remember that we cannot guarantee that the internet in itself is 100% secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal information, transmission of personal information to and from our services is at your own risk. You should only access the services within a secure environment.

NO MONKEY MONEY MAKING POLICY

  • APPLICANTS/CREW MEMBER ARE WARNED NOT TO GIVE MONEY TO ANY OFFICE MEMBER WITHIN OR OUTSIDE THE OFFICE FOR ANY REASON WHATSOEVER
  • STAFF MEMBERS ARE EQUALLY WARNED NOT TO RECEIVE/COLLECT MONEY FROM APPLICANTS/CREW MEMBER UNDER ANY PRETEXTS
  • THE ABOVE IS PLACED ON THE NOTICE BOARD FOR BOTH APPLICANTS/CREW MEMBER AND THE STAFFS FOR THEIR ATTENTION
  • FURTHER INVESTIGATIONS ARE RANDOMLY CARRIED OUT TO ASCERTAIN IF ANY EXCHANGE OF MONEY TOOK PLACE AT POINT DURING THE RECRUITMENT SELECTION
  • WHERE (NO.4) ABOVE RECEIVES ANY COMPROMISE THE PARTIES INVOLVES WILL BE MADE TO FACE APPROPRIATE PUNITIVE MEASURE AND OR COMPENSATION

ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION POLICY

  • PAN AFRIQUE MARITIME LTD OPERATIONS SHALL BE PLANNED AND EXECUTED IN SUCH A MANNER SO AS TO MINIMIZE ANY ADVERSE EFFECT OR IMPACT ON THE ENVIRONMENT IN WHICH WE OPERATE.
  • THE TRUST OF THE PLANNING AND EXECUTION OF OUR WORK SHALL BE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AND PRESERVATION.
  • IN THE COURSE OF OUR OPERATION, ALL WASTES GENERATED SHALL BE COLLECTED, HANDLED, TREATED AND DISPOSED IN AN ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY MANNER. THE DISCHARGE INTO AIR OR WATER BODIES OF ANY FORM OF POLLUTANTS IS FORBIDDEN.
  • ALL REGULATIONS/REGISTRATION ON ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUE BY GOVERNMENT AGENCIES SUCH AS FEDERAL ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION AGENCY (FEPA) IS BINDING ON US.

DRUGS AND ALCOHOL POLICY

  • PAN AFRIQUE MARITIME LIMITED HAS ZERO TOLERANCE TO DRUG OR ALCOHOL USE IN THE WORKPLACE THEREFORE POSSESSION, CONSUMPTION, DISTRIBUTION, OR SALE OF ALCOHOL AND / OR DRUGS IN ANY FORM IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED ON COMPANY PROPERTY (VESSELS AND BASES) AND CAN RESULT IN TERMINATION OF EMPLOYMENT
  • IF DEEMED NECESSARY, THE COMPANY RESERVES THE RIGHT TO CARRY OUT UNSCHEDULED INSPECTIONS TO DETECT THE PRESENCE OF ALCOHOL AND / OR DRUGS ON COMPANY PROPERTY (BASES AND VESSELS)
  • TESTING FOLLOWING ACCIDENTS (AND OTHER INCIDENTS AS DEEMED NECESSARY) OR ON A RANDOM BASIS IS APPLICABLE TO ALL COMPANY PERSONNEL (BASES AND VESSELS)
  • ANY EMPLOYEE INVOLVED IN AN ACCIDENT MAY UNDERGO ALCOHOL AND DRUG TESTING
  • SIMILARLY, TESTING MAY BE CARRIED OUT FOR ANY REASONABLE CAUSE SUSPICION SHOULD ANY EMPLOYEE DEMONSTRATE SUSPICIOUS AND / OR DANGEROUS BEHAVIOR INDIVIDUALLY OR INVOLVING OTHERS
  • ALCOHOL AND DRUG TESTING WILL BE PERFORMED EITHER BY TRAINED COMPANY PERSONNEL OR AT A SUBCONTRACTED MEDICAL FACILITY AND ANY CONFIRMED POSITIVE RESULTS CAN LEAD TO TERMINATION OF EMPLOYMENT FOR PROFESSIONAL MISCONDUCT
  • PAN AFRIQUE MARITIME LIMITED ACKNOWLEDGES AND ADOPTS THE DIRECTION GIVEN IN SECTION B-VLLL/2 PART 5 – “GUIDANCE ON PREVENTION OF DRUG AND ALCOHOL ABUSE” OF THE SEAFARERS TRAINING, CERTIFICATION AND WATCH-KEEPING CODE (STCW 95 CODE)
  • NO COMPANY PERSONNEL SHALL CONSUME ALCOHOL IN ANY COUNTRY WHERE THE CONSUMPTION OF ALCOHOL IS FORBIDDEN BY LAW

NO SMOKING POLICY

  • ALL EMPLOYEES ARE REQUIRED TO OBSERVE THE SMOKING REGULATIONS IN THEIR WORK LOCATION, WHETHER ONBOARD A VESSEL, OR AT ANY OTHER COMPANY FACILITY. SMOKING REGULATIONS ARE DESIGNED TO PROTECT YOU AND YOUR FELLOW EMPLOYEES. SMOKING IS A RECOGNIZED HEALTH AND SAFETY HAZARD AND IS THEREFORE ONLY PERMITTED IN DESIGNATED AREAS, BOTH ONBOARD VESSELS AND AT COMPANY FACILITIES.
  • DESIGNATED SMOKING AREAS ARE TO BE ASSIGNED AT THE DISCRETION OF THE MASTER ONBOARD VESSELS AND THE SENIOR MANAGEMENT AT SHORE FACILITIES.
  • SMOKING IS STRICTLY FORBIDDEN IN THE FOLLOWING AREAS:
    • ALL ACCOMMODATION AND OTHER INTERIOR AREAS INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO: CABINS, HALLWAYS, STAIRWAYS, OFFICES, TOILET AND WASH ROOMS, MESS-ROOMS, GALLEYS AND STORAGE AREAS.
    • THE BRIDGE AND ANY ASSOCIATED AREAS SUCH AS CHART ROOMS, OFFICES, MEETING AREAS ETC.
    • CONTROL ROOMS, ENGINE ROOMS, MACHINERY SPACES, PUMP ROOMS AND ALL OTHER INTERIOR SPACES.
    • THE DECK AREA ON ANY LFP (LOW FLASH POINT) DESIGNATED VESSELS.
    • THERE IS STRICTLY NO SMOKING ON DECK IF THE VESSEL IS WORKING WITHIN THE 500 METRE SAFETY ZONE OF AN INSTALLATION. LIKEWISE, SMOKING IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED WHEREVER THERE IS ANY RISK OR FIRE, EXPLOSION OR ANY OTHER FORM OF COMBUSTION. THIS INCLUDES, BUT IS NOT LIMITED TO; THE TRANSFER OF FUEL AND / OR OTHER FLAMMABLE LIQUIDS, MATERIALS OR SUBSTANCES, IN AND AROUND PAINT LOCKERS AND / OR ANY OTHER STORAGE AREA CONTAINING FLAMMABLE LIQUIDS, MATERIALS OR SUBSTANCES, DURING ANY EMERGENCY SITUATIONS INCLUDING EMERGENCY DRILLS AND EXERCISES, IN ANY AREA DESIGNATED NON-SMOKING AND IN THE VICINITY OF ANY OTHER OBVIOUS FIRE OR EXPLOSIVE HAZARD AREA.
    • ALL NON-SMOKING AREAS SHOULD BE EXPLAINED DURING INDUCTIONS AT ALL COMPANY PROPERTIES, VESSELS AND OTHER AREAS AS APPLICABLE. SIMILARLY, SAFE DESIGNATED SMOKING AREAS SHOULD BE EXPLAINED.
    • “NO SMOKING” SIGNS MAY BE POSTED AS DEEMED NECESSARY.