ACTIVE-OPERATIONS DUTY
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).] [Blacks Law 8th]