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Fishermen's safety guide

Guidance for fishermen on health and safety best practice, and applying merchant shipping and fishing vessel regulations.

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Fisherman's Safety Guide

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This guide will help you identify hazards, assess risks and put in place control measures. It is not intended to be a definitive guide but to help you to conduct risk assessments and to improve safety on your vessel.

Printed copies

Printed copies can be ordered for free online from the MCA’s Safety materials ordering service.

The publication reference number MCA/034 can be quoted in any correspondence.

Updates to this page

Published 6 May 2014
Last updated 1 May 2020 + show all updates
  1. Added updated attachment

  2. Update pdf and text

  3. Updated Fisherman's Safety Guide 2016

  4. Updated Fisherman's Safety Guide 2015

  5. First published.

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