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Guidance for maritime security guards and their employers about the medical certificates needed for working at sea.
How to comply with the living and working conditions requirements and responsibilities under ILO Work In Fishing Convention (ILO 188)
Operational codes of practice, construction and maintenance standards for cargo or passenger high-speed craft and Ro-Ro.
Outlining the issues around maritime safety, who this guide is for and how to use it.
A look back at what you have learnt in leading for safety and advice on how to put those learnings into action. Also guidance on what further reading you can do.
Large Commercial Yacht Code requirements: construction, maintenance, operation, and responsibilities for surveying and certifying of large commercial yachts.
Information for a letter of initial assessment or college letter, so you can train for an engineer officer certificate of competence (CoC)
UKSR LYS advice notes for those who wish to have their vessel projects surveyed.
The UK criteria - annexes A, B and C - that unknown insurers need to evidence to get approval.
The concierge service helps maritime businesses to interact with government departments.
Maritime and Coastguard Agency information about who can authorise stability approval.
For all UK harbour authorities and other marine berths, terminals, or jetties
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.
A final report from Southampton Solent University to the UK Maritime and Coastguard Agency investigating modelling the hours of work and rest of merchant navy watch keepers and tug crews.
This notice makes provision in relation to Directive (EU) 2016/1629 which lays down technical requirements for inland waterway vessels.
Record of prosecutions resulting from breaches of maritime legislation: court hearings from January 2019.
Notice to all builders, designers, surveyors, operators and skippers of UK under 15m fishing vessels and small commercial vessels and workboats.
This marine information note (MIN) has been published to advise of a recent decision made regarding the acceptance of electronic record books under MARPOL as listed in resolution MEPC.312(74).
This notice replaces MGN 649 (M).
Amendment 2 contains information on the application of the Merchant Shipping (Diving Safety) Regulations 2002.
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