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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.
Operational codes of practice, construction and maintenance standards for cargo or passenger high-speed craft and Ro-Ro.
Alerts industry to specific issues. Normally time sensitive and action may be required.
Guidance on helicopter landing areas fitted on roll-on and roll-off ships of 130 metres and more in length, built on or after 1 July 1999.
Further information on the merchant shipping (compulsory insurance: ships receiving trans-shipped fish) regulations 1998.
The requirement is to provide a means of escape from enclosed spaces when other escape arrangements can not be used.
Revision of sections of the small commercial vessel code of practice.
Guidance on safe operation of fishing vessels engaged in trawling and twin beam trawling, including scallop dredging with derricks or booms.
Guidelines about the unit weight of passengers and vessels where certificates state a limiting number of passengers.
Reports the findings of a series of trials and evacuation exercises undertaken or witnessed by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency.
Outlines a potential lifejacket safety issue and highlights the need for guidance on evacuating infants and people with disabilities.
Guidance on stowage positions and other measures that will significantly reduce the possibility of a liferaft or an EPIRB becoming trapped.
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.
Details and images of a swivel block that failed, and advice for operators.
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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