Guidance

MGN 532 (M) Health and safety - safe movement on board ship

Amendment 2 gives guidance on the measures that shipowners and employers are expected to take in order to provide for safe movement on board UK ships.

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This notice should be read in conjunction with the merchant shipping and fishing vessels (health and safety at work) regulations 1997 (S.I 1997/2962, the code of safe working practices for merchant seafarers (COSWP) chapter 11 and replaces MGN 532 (M) amendment 1.

Amendment 2 updates references and minor editorials only.

Notice to

  • shipowners
  • operators and managers and other employers of seafarers
  • masters
  • officers and seafarers
Published 28 June 2023