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Guidelines for the MCA's Approved Engine Courses (AEC).
Engine manufacturers' database and guide for builders, owners, skippers, managers, surveyors and measurers of UK registered fishing vessels.
Wellbeing principles specifically aimed at Emergency Response volunteers.
A guide to human behaviour in the shipping industry.
Instructions for the guidance of surveyors; it gives a full set of requirements for the design and building of HSC.
Instructions for the guidance of surveyors (MSIS 24), about the International code of safety for high-speed craft (HSC code), 2000.
The majority of the ILO 188 work in fishing convention will phase in between the 31 December 2018 and 30 November 2019.
Download 'first aid' sign from the 'Code of Safe Working Practices (COSWP) for Merchant Seamen'.
The written examination syllabuses for yacht Masters.
There have been several recent incidents where failing to keep a proper lookout and poor navigational watchkeeping practices have led to collisions and groundings involving fatalities, and serious injuries.
Details on the requirements for seafarers and fishermen to be given a written record of their work, titled as a certificate of discharge.
Advises of the decommissioning of halon as a fire-extinguishing medium because of its damaging effect on the stratospheric ozone layer.
Explains how offshore supply vessels should comply with the international maritime dangerous goods (IMDG) code and chapter VII of SOLAS.
Standard when loading and back loading bulk liquid and the procedure to be followed before commencing the back loading to comply with IMDG
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.
Information on how the UKHO will issue future changes to routeing measures in electronic navigational charts.
Recommended standards for the inspection and testing of pressurised seamless steel gas cylinders for fire fighting appliances and other onboard purposes.
Guidance note details requirements for the merchant shipping (prevention of air pollution from ships) regulations 2008.
Information about the U.S. Clean Water Act and compliance with the Environmental Protection Agency's vessel general permit (VGP).
Survey and certification requirements with reference to air pollution from ships and clarification of the term important repair.
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