turnover duty. Maritime law. A shipowner’s obligation to provide safe working conditions and to give notice of any nonobvious hazards regarding instruments and areas that the shipowner turns over to the stevedore and longshoremen while the ship is being loaded or unloaded. Cf. ACTIVE-OPERATIONS DUTY; INTERVENTION DUTY. [Cases: Shipping 84(3).]
active-operations duty. Maritime law. A shipowner’s obligation to provide safe working conditions, in the work areas that it controls, for the longshoremen who are loading or unloading the ship. — Also termed ac-tive-control-of-vessel duty. Cf. TURNOVER DUTY; INTERVENTION DUTY. [Cases: Shipping 84(3.2).]
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intervention duty. Maritime law. A shipowner’s obligation to remedy hazardous working conditions for longshore workers, even though the shipowner did not create the condition, when the shipowner knows of a nonobvious condition arising in an area that cannot be avoided by the longshore workers in performing their duties. Cf. ACTIVE-OPERATIONS DUTY; TURNOVER DUTY. [Cases: Shipping