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Guidance for owners, operators and masters of vessels on inland waters, explaining the classifications and how to apply for categorisation.
Information on how businesses can offer a flare disposal service.
Key regulations on tonnage measurement, weighing, safe loading, unloading and carriage of cargo, and passenger and personnel safety issues for ships.
Format of Certificates Associated with the Passenger Ship Safety Certificate
This document forms the Annex to MGN 656 which sets out the UK’s approved ship recycling facilities.
Domestic Safety Management code (DSM) (MSIS 29) for the safe operation of ships and for pollution prevention.
The tasks required to be completed by an Electro-Technical Rating (ETR).
Updated instructions for the guidance of surveyors, applied to craft built on or after 1 July 2008.
Download warning information signs from the 'Code of Safe Working Practices (COSWP) for Merchant Seamen'.
Record of prosecutions resulting from breaches of maritime legislation including court hearings from January 2024.
The examination syllabuses for the MCA's small vessel competency examinations.
Highlights the dangers to passengers and crew of moving vehicles during operations on board roll-on and roll-off ships.
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 on identifying and dealing with overweight lifeboats and rescue boats.
Amendment 1 outlines circumstances in which shipowners are required to repatriate seafarers under the MLC and guidance on the maximum period of sea service.
Information about the correct storage and stowage of packaged quantities of dangerous goods.
MCA criteria for visual inspection of immersion suits stored in airtight packaging.
Notice on the current alcohol limits for seafarers set by the Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping Convention, 1978 as amended (STCW) and applies to all seafarers.
This guidance advises on the need to ensure that there are safe means of access and the protective measures that can be taken to minimise risks.
This notice should be read with MGN 538, MGN 571, MGN 587 and MGN 588 and replaces MGN 494.
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