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Advice for vessel owners, operators and masters about vessels with bow areas open to passengers.
Guidance for owners and masters about potentially hazardous medical supplies.
Safety guidance for all seafarers about the dangers of confined space entries.
A reminder to owners, operators, masters and pilots about best practice safely navigating a vessel in pilotage waters.
Safety recommendations about machinery, rigging and equipment for owners, operators and crew members of commercial fishing vessels.
A reminder to vessel owners, operators and crew members about the dangers of moving machinery onboard ship.
Guidance for maritime security guards and their employers about the medical certificates needed for working at sea.
Information about the 24-hour radio and radar coastal vessel traffic service (VTS) and further information on vessel safety when navigating, and specifically crossing, the Dover Strait.
A pair of information sheets giving important information about fatigue, and guidance on managing it.
Instructions for the guidance of surveyors; it gives a full set of requirements for the design and building of HSC.
Technical advice for skippers of fishing vessels
Guidance for fishermen who work alone at sea.
Information about safety requirements for registering small fishing vessels.
This document contains reference information for training providers, regarding the changes to tanker endorsements.
Information and guidance notes for keeping a sailing vessel stable in typical sailing conditions.
Information and guidance notes for keeping a motor vessel stable in typical sailing conditions.
A report with information about, and guidance on, inspecting the carbon fibre masts and spars of large commercial yachts.
Practical guidance for surveyors carrying out an inclining test, and determining a ship's stability.
A list of drawings to help with carrying out a large yacht survey.
Information about the joint MCA and UK Hydrographic Office Civil Hydrography Programme (CHP), the initiative to maps and measure UK waters.
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