Guidance

MSN 1888 Amendment 2 health and safety chemical agents regulations

Information required to comply with the merchant shipping and fishing vessels (health and safety at work) (chemical agents) regulations 2010 as amended.

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MSN 1888 (M+F) amendment 2 has been replaced by MSN 1888 (M+F) amendment 3.

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MSN 1888 (M+F) Amendment 2 merchant shipping and fishing vessels health and safety at work chemical agents regulations 2010 as amended

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This notice replaces MGN 409 (M+F), MGN 454 (M+F), MGN 593 (M+F) Amendment 1 and MSN 1888 (M+F) Amendment 1.

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

The chemical agents regulations implemented Directive 98/24/EC (“the chemical agents Directive” as supplemented by Directives 2000/39/EC and 2006/15/EC, and forms part of the UK’s retained law. All the obligations in the EU legislation mentioned in MSN 1888(M+F) Amendment 2, which have affect in the UK prior to the 1st January 2021, are retained in UK law, with any necessary modifications, after the end of the EU Exit implementation period.

Notice to

  • ship
  • yacht and fishing vessel owners
  • operators and managers and other employers of seafarers
  • masters
  • officers and seafarers on merchant ships and yachts
  • skippers and crew on fishing vessels and small commercially operated vessels
Published 30 December 2020