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Products with JRC Global Positioning System (GPS) chips for position or UTC (Coordinated Universal Time), may produce an error on May 15th 2022.
Key regulations on tonnage measurement, weighing, safe loading, unloading and carriage of cargo, and passenger and personnel safety issues for ships.
Alerts industry to specific issues. Normally time sensitive and action may be required.
A warning on the potential hazards of arc flash, and guidance on safety measures.
Highlights conflict between safety and security with regards to means of escape and provides advice on the methods to overcome the conflict.
Guidance on the use of barbecues and pig roasts on ships and fishing vessels, corrects information from MGN 406.
Guidance on compatibility issues concerning the joint use of immersion suits and lifejackets.
Recommeded standards for the inspection and testing of pressurised seamless steel gas cylinders for fire fighting appliances and other onboard purposes.
Reports the findings of a series of trials and evacuation exercises undertaken or witnessed by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency.
Research Project 502: Design guidance on high speed craft dynamic stability in following and quartering seas.
Advises of possibility of premature pipe failure due to fatigue when pipes are incorrectly mounted, or subjected to in service vibration.
Seismic streamers that are being towed represent a potential hazard to navigation and should be marked with tail buoys.
Offers certain Class VI passenger vessels an alternative arrangement for the carriage of man-overboard smoke signals and parachute flares.
Advises on the guidelines and specifications of hyperbaric evacuation systems to be provided for the evacuation of divers in saturation.
Amendment to MGN 83a.
A best practice guide for operators of small passenger boats on inland waters.
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.
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