Vessel Sanitation Program: 2025 Construction Standards

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Environmental Health (U.S.). Vessel Sanitation Program
• Description:
  Background and Purpose: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) established the Vessel Sanitation Program (VSP) in the 1970s as a cooperative endeavor with the cruise vessel industry. VSP assists the cruise industry in fulfilling its responsibility for developing and implementing comprehensive performance-based systems to protect the health of the traveling public. Every vessel that has an international voyage with a stop at a U.S. port and carries 13 or more passengers is subject to twice-yearly unannounced inspections and, when necessary, reinspection. The vessel owner pays a fee, based on gross tonnage (GT) of the vessel, for all operational inspections. The VSP Environmental Public Health Standards, which is available on the VSP website (www.cdc.gov/vessel-sanitation/about/index.html), covers details of these inspections.
  
  CDC is committed to promoting high construction standards to protect the public’s health. Compliance with these standards will help to ensure a healthy environment on cruise vessels. Cruise vessel owners or shipyards that build or renovate cruise vessels may voluntarily request plan reviews, onsite shipyard construction inspections, and/or final construction inspections of new or renovated vessels before their first or next operational inspection. The vessel owner or shipyard pays a fee, based on GT of the vessel, for onsite and final construction inspections. VSP does not charge a fee for plan reviews or consultations.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Acute Disease Disease Notification Disease Outbreaks Disease Outbreaks / Prevention & Control Environmental Health Facility Design And Construction / Standards Gastroenteritis Public Health Surveillance Sanitation / Standards Ships Ships / Standards Travel-Related Illness

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• Keywords:
  Cruise Ships
• Publisher:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (U.S.)
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Guidance
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Rights:
  Public Domain
• CIO:
  National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH)
• Division:
  VSP - Vessel Sanitation Program
• Topic:
  Diseases & Conditions
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  116 pdf pages
• Collection(s):
  Public Health Resources
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:721b5b1933e0b17ca70571a6114087844ea44b87a835969ab0d4785de908ece46ea0101c588f852cb8892730393951bdc3d943d3a2f135828eee40beeb5de13e
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/256291/cdc_256291_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 17.73 MB ]