Guidance

MGN 556 (M+F) Amendment 2: safety signs and signals regulations 2001

This notice outlines the requirements for health and safety signs and signals at work.

• From: Maritime and Coastguard Agency
• Published: 12 September 2024

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MGN 556 (M+F) Amendment 2: the merchant shipping and fishing vessels (safety signs and signals) regulations 2001

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MGN 556 (M+F) Amendment 2: the merchant shipping and fishing vessels (safety signs and signals) regulations 2001

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Annex 1: text to the annexes to council Directive 92/58/EC

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Annex 2: minimum general requirements concerning signboards

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Annex 3: minimum requirements governing signs on containers and pipes

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Annex 4: minimum requirements for the identification and location of firefighting equipment

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Annex 5: minimum requirements governing signs used for obstacles and dangerous locations and for marking traffic routes

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Annex 6: minimum requirements for illuminated signs

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Annex 7: minimum requirements for acoustic signs

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Annex 8: minimum requirements for verbal communication

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Annex 9: minimum requirements for hand signals

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Details

Notice to all:

• shipowners
• managers
• masters and seafarers of merchant ships
• skippers and crew of fishing vessels

This note should be read with Merchant Shipping and Fishing Vessels (Safety Signs and Signals) Regulations 2001 and Code of safe working practices for merchant seafarers (COSWP) chapter 9 and annex 9.1.

Published 12 September 2024