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Step by step guidance and layout templates on how to draw up a port facility security plan.
Counter pollution and salvage Scientific, Technical and Operational (STOp) advice notes
This guide highlights some of the risks that are greater if you fish on your own and what you can do about them.
Part MSIS 14 of the instructions for the guidance of surveyors.
How to comply with the living and working conditions requirements and responsibilities under ILO Work In Fishing Convention (ILO 188)
Interim guidance covering the use, in exceptional circumstances, of armed guards on UK flagged vessels to defend against piracy.
Updated instructions for the guidance of surveyors, applied to craft built on or after 1 July 2008.
List of contact details for fuel oil suppliers who are registered as compliant with MARPOL annex VI.
Download warning information signs from the 'Code of Safe Working Practices (COSWP) for Merchant Seamen'.
Highlights the adverse effects of alcohol and drugs on the chances of survival at sea. These guidelines are intended to raise awareness of the increased risks.
Guidance on the risk and transmission of Legionnaire's Disease via air conditioning plants and counter measures.
Revised arrangements of the government’s financial support scheme for merchant navy training, (SMarT), from 1 August 2012 to 31 March 2015.
Guidance on the regulations for deep-sea pilotage. This notice also includes contact details for the competent authorities covering the areas concerned
Regulations require periodic testing of the complete emergency electrical system including any automatic starting arrangements .
This notice provides guidance on overside working systems, their use, standards, maintenance and regulations.
This notice sets out the factors that the MCA (on behalf of the Secretary of State) will take into account when considering whether to grant an application for such an exemption.
This notice gives guidance as per International Maritime Organisation (IMO) circulars MSC.1/Circ.1295, 1298, 1307 and 1338 regarding the survey, certification and compliance of ships that are required to transmit long-rang…
Guidance to mariners on the use of mobile phones or other personal electronic devices and the dangers of not using them appropriately when working.
Amendment 1provides information on the cause and prevention of infectious disease at sea.
MGN 70 (M) Amendment 1 includes a new reporting procedure for UK-flagged vessels coming to the UK, non UK-flagged vessels in UK waters and UK port facilities discovering a stowaway incident.
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