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This guidance provides details on how to conduct and record a risk assessment, and how safety management systems can help to improve safety on fishing vessels.
The oral examination syllabuses for SV Engineers.
Course criteria for the Maritime and Coastguard Agency's Small Ships Navigation and Radar (SSNR) course.
The examination syllabuses for the MCA's small vessel competency examinations.
Amendment 2 provides information on controlling risks in the workplace to the exposure of electromagnetic fields (EMFS).
Applicable to davit launched lifeboats fitted with on-load release hooks, and any similar on-load release systems if fitted to rescue boats
This notice concerns the protection of maritime workers from the risks associated with working at height.
Information on cargoes that may be a risk on vessels and cargoes classed as dangerous under the international maritime dangerous goods code.
The use of mobile phones at inappropriate times is distracting bridge management teams from their primary duties of navigating and conning their vessel.
Sets out alternative ways that certain smaller vessels operated under MCA codes of practice may satisfy paper chart carriage requirements.
Text of the SPS Code 1983
This notice recommends that a master or chief mate of large ships have adequate experience in unusual maneuvering characteristics.
This Marine Guidance Notice (MGN) sets out recommended best practice to encourage respectful operation between different water users.
The purpose of this Marine Guidance Note (MGN) is to advise of amendments to the Life Saving Appliance (LSA) Code and application date.
Medical fitness requirements for those employed on boats certificated under MCA codes of practice, crew of seagoing local passenger vessels and non-seagoing boatmasters.
This MGN annexes a revision of the Code of Practice ‘Roll-on/Roll-off Ships – Stowage and Securing of Vehicles’
This page outlines the requirements and construction standards for fishing vessels
MCA guidance on using small vessels commercially
Instructions for the guidance of surveyors; it gives a full set of requirements for the design and building of HSC.
Provides guidance to help fishermen make decisions regarding the operation of their vessel using the Wolfson Stability Guidance Method.
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