Guidance

MIN 616 Amendment 1 COVID 19 Minimising risk to ships' crews and other maritime sector workers

Guidance for companies and employers regarding management and mitigation of COVID 19 (coronavirus)

From:
Maritime and Coastguard Agency
Published
12 May 2020

This publication was withdrawn on

MIN 616 Amendment 1 has been replaced by MIN 616 Amendment 2

Documents

MIN 616 (M+F) Amendment 1 COVID 19 Guidance on minimising risk to ships's crews and other maritime sector workers

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Amendment 1 puts protection measures for seafarers in the context of the ISM code and health and safety legislation. In this notice “shipowner” includes fishing vessel owner and “seafarers” includes fishermen.

This notice should be read in conjunction with the merchant shipping and fishing vessels (health and safety at work) regulations 1997, as amended.

This MIN expires on 24 September 2020.

Notice to

  • ship owners
  • ship operators and managers
  • masters
  • officers and crew of merchant vessels
  • skippers and crew of domestic passenger ships and inland waterways vessels
Published 12 May 2020