Drug and Alcohol Policy

B-POL-01.0006
BOURBON 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 BOURBON vessels, shore bases and offices. By violating this, the employee may lend
him/herself liable to summary dismissal/termination of employment, or other disciplinary actions.
Onboard vessels is additionally defined as:
The entire length of any given sailing period on a vessel - from signing on until signing off.
Applies equally to those on temporary contracts, permanent rotation, and permanent employees on
temporary relief trips on other vessel than ones permanent vessel.
Employees (defined as ALL employees regardless of sea-going or shore-based) shall not consume any
alcohol or drugs later than 8 hours prior to reporting for duty or starting any work, or in general be under any
influence of alcohol or drugs when reporting for duty or starting any work.
Any employee traveling on BOURBON cost or representing BOURBON shall represent BOURBON in a
decent and honorable way.
Employees that due to drugs and/or alcohol:
Display behaviour that may cause an individual to be denied use of public transport, including
airlines;
Deliberately or negligently fail to return to the vessel at the expected time;
Deliberately or negligently fail to use planned travel arrangements;
Do not attend/is not able to follow curriculum of planned training sessions;
Do not attend/follow planned meetings (internally/externally);
Act in a manner that may damage BOURBON reputation.
Will lend themselves liable to disciplinary reactions, ranging from (and not limited to) cover of all additional
cost for BOURBON to summary dismissal/termination of employment.
BOURBON reserves the right to carry out unscheduled inspections to detect the presence of alcohol and/or
drugs on BOURBON vessels, shore bases and offices. Testing following accidents (and other incidents as
deemed necessary) or on a random basis is applicable to all BOURBON employees (sea-going or shorebased.)
Any employee involved in an accident may undergo alcohol and drug testing. Similarly, testing may be
carried out for any reasonable cause or suspicion should any employee demonstrate suspicious and/or
dangerous behavior individually or involving others.
Alcohol and drug testing will be performed either by trained BOURBON personnel or at a subcontracted
medical facility and any confirmed positive results can lead to termination of employment for professional
misconduct.
BOURBON 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).
BOURBON personnel shall not consume alcohol or drugs in any country where the consumption of alcohol
or drugs is forbidden by law.

Christian Lefvre
Chief Executive Officer

Gal Bodns
Chief Operating Officer

Revision 02. Original date: 24 February 2010. Revision date: 12 April 2012. Valid version only on QMS site.
Policy prepared by: Vice President HSE. Approved by: COMEX. Validated by: Quality Director of BOURBON.

Laurent Renard
Chief Financial Officer

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