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The syllabuses for Master - Workboats - Less than 500 GT - Carrying 12 passengers or fewer and the one-day Small Workboat Stability Course.
Outlining the issues around maritime safety, who this guide is for and how to use it.
How human behaviour can affect safety onboard.
Capsizing due to insufficient stability is a major cause of fatalities for fishing vessels under 24m length, especially those under 15m.
Key regulations on tonnage measurement, weighing, safe loading, unloading and carriage of cargo, and passenger and personnel safety issues for ships.
Codes of practice and standards for safely operating and navigating passenger ships, catamarans and hovercrafts.
Implementing EC Directive 2001/96/EC (establishing harmonised requirements and procedures for safe loading and unloading of bulk carriers.)
Information outlining the Maritime Labour Convention 2006 (MLC), amendments 2022 and proposals for implementation into UK legislation with guidance to industry.
This notice sets out new requirement mandating the carriage of electronic inclinometers on new container ships and bulk carriers of 3,000 gross tonnage and above from 1 January 2026
Amendments to the IGF Code which take effect from 1 January 2024 include, general editorial amendments and changes for ships constructed on or after 1st January 2024.
Clarifying aspects of SOLAS Chapter IV requirements that need further explanation.
Crew accommodation standards as a substantial equivalence to MLC standard A3.1 for new UK vessels under 200GT, ordinarily engaged in commercial activities.
Notice provides guidance on the safe installation, inspection, maintenance and use of anchoring, mooring, towing and hauling equipment.
Introducing the wellbeing at sea tool designed as an evidence based approach for organisations to prioritise, develop and test wellbeing at sea.
This notice outlines the codes of practice and how to obtain them.
This Marine Information Note (MIN) provides the latest advice to mariners on products sold as distress signalling equipment to be used in an emergency.
Amendments to MSN 1858 yacht requirements to gain an exemption from completing the training record book
Notice gives detailed information required to comply with the Merchant Shipping and Fishing Vessels (Health and Safety at Work) Regs 1997 relating to new or expectant mothers.
The guidance has been updated to reflect the 10m or less fishers’ medical exemption as outlined within MSN 1915 (F). Amendment 5 clarifies the review process for ML5 Medicals.
Technical provisions that have been accepted by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency and the European Commission
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