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Guidance and information on the requirements for AIS carriage on double-ended passenger ferries, and the specific arrangements for ensuring AIS has correct heading input, regardless of direction of travel.
Draws the attention to the dangers from exposed aerial lead-ins and the measures that should be taken to reduce the risk of injury.
Guidelines about the unit weight of passengers and vessels where certificates state a limiting number of passengers.
Amendment 2 outlines guidance on the requirements for the protection of workers from the risks related to exposure to vibration at work.
Guidelines about avoiding the use of photochromic lenses and allowing time for dark adaptation when undertaking lookouts at night.
Information on how the UKHO will issue future changes to routeing measures in electronic navigational charts.
Amendment 1 advises seafarers on the Dreadnought Medical Service at Guy’s Hospital and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust in London.
Maritime Safety Information (MSI) is defined in the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) Convention, Chapter IV as “navigational and meteorological warnings, meteorological forecasts and other urgent safety related messages broadca…
Guidance note details requirements for the merchant shipping (prevention of air pollution from ships) regulations 2008.
Guidance regarding the use of operating instructions and signage for fixed gas fire-extinguishing systems.
Guidance on interpretation of The Merchant Shipping (Anti-Fouling Systems) Regulations 2024.
This MGN provides guidance on the SOx requirements under the Prevention of Air Pollution from Ships Regulations, as amended for ships in UK ports, with regards to fuel changeover and “hotelling”.
This amendment provides guidance for all vessels engaged in transfers of persons at anchor or underway as regards
Information on the application of the requirement for a seafarer employment agreement to trainees engaged through an approved training provider on a UK ship.
Requirement to maintain compulsory insurance against liability for bunker oil pollution damage and information on the limits of liability.
Revision to the limits of liability (1992 Civil Liability Convention) and note to maintain compulsory insurance against pollution damage.
Guidelines by the IMO on the preparation, approval and implementation of procedures necessary for solid bulk cargoes which may liquefy.
This notice gives guidance on the measures that shipowners and employers are expected to take in order to provide for safe movement on board UK ships.
These regulations are amended by the 2015 regulations to place a duty on shipowners to ensure there are sufficient copies of the code available on a ship so that is accessible to all seafarers.
MCA policy for acceptable standards of non-SOLAS inflatable life-saving appliances incorporating the changes in the rationalised ISO 9650-1-2022, and completion of phase out of ORC liferafts.
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