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Tool for local councils to calculate the potential effects of transport on carbon emissions in an area.
Helping current or potential new operators safely use longer-semi trailers.
This leaflet explains the work of the Marine Accident Investigation Branch.
Guidance on high speed craft training - course approval and certification
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 note recommending a common format for stability information booklets for use on board fishing vessels.
Amendment 2 outlines guidance on the requirements for the protection of workers from the risks related to exposure to vibration at work.
Explains the implications of the The Merchant Shipping (Dangerous Goods and Marine Pollutants) Regulations 1997.
Maritime Safety Information (MSI) is defined in the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) Convention, Chapter IV as “navigational and meteorological warnings, meteorological forecasts and other urgent safety related messages broadca…
This notice concerns the protection of maritime workers from the risks associated with working at height.
Amendment 2 lists merchant notices and marine guidance notes which provide standards or guidance for implementation of the maritime labour convention, 2006.
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.
The legal position in the UK with regards to the recent amendments to SOLAS VI which take effect from 1st July 2016.
Below are the construction standards for new fishing vessels 15m length overall to 24m registered length. Also contained in the page are marine information notes containing additional information relating to these standards.
Guidance on the training standards for Helicopter Landing Officers (HLO) and Helideck Assistants (HDA) working on large commercial yachts with helicopter decks.
This Marine Information Note (MIN) provides the latest advice to mariners on products sold as distress signalling equipment to be used in an emergency.
This notice updates key information regarding the UK’s marine equipment conformity assessment regime, including in relation to the end of the ‘standstill’ period on 31 December 2022.
This note reminds designers, builders, owners and skippers of fishing vessels that modifications to vessels must be approved by the MCA prior to work taking place.
The Department for Transport informs ship operators and verifiers to prepare for emissions data reporting compliance required under the legislation underpinning the UK MRV regime.
Maritime ban on PFOS (perfluorooctane sulfonate acid), a persistent organic pollutant, in firefighting media, resolutions MSC.536(107) and MSC.537(107).
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