Guidance

Workboat Code

Industry working group technical standard - A Code of Practice (CoP) for small workboats in commercial use to sea and all pilot boats.

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The Workboat Code

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Details

  • This Technical Standard can, from 1 June 2014, be used for new workboats and pilot boats as an equivalent construction standard to the requirements of “The Safety of Small Workboats and Pilot Boats – A Code of Practice”, published by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency in 1998.

  • Such vessels will continue to be issued with Certification under those regulations.

  • This Technical Standard is subject to final public consultation and scrutiny by the Department for Transport.

Updates to this page

Published 11 June 2014
Last updated 5 February 2021 + show all updates
  1. Deleted an Introduction to the proposed workboat code and final draft workboat code edition 2

  2. The impact assessment for edition 2 and a final draft of edition 2 of the code have been uploaded.

  3. First published.

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