turnover duty

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).]

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