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About amendments to the merchant shipping (fire protection: large ships) and (fire protection: small ships) regulations 1998.
Guidance on helicopter landing areas fitted on roll-on and roll-off ships of 130 metres and more in length, built on or after 1 July 1999.
The 2014 MLC regulations form part of the UK's approach to ensuring the safety and protection of seafarers on UK flagged vessels and foreign flagged vessels whilst in the UK.
The code of safe practice for large commercial yachts.
Alerts industry to specific issues. Normally time sensitive and action may be required.
Products with JRC Global Positioning System (GPS) chips for position or UTC (Coordinated Universal Time), may produce an error on May 15th 2022.
The Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (GMDSS) services using 2-way narrow-band direct-printing (2W-NBDP) for distress and safety communications in the high frequency (HF) band will cease at midnight on 31 December 2…
The Long-Range Identification and Tracking (LRIT) system provides for the global identification and tracking of ships. Under SOLAS Chapter V, Regulation 19-1, vessels >300 GT on international voyages are required to tran…
Advice for vessel owners, operators and masters about vessels with bow areas open to passengers.
Safety guidance for all seafarers about the dangers of confined space entries.
Advises of possibility of premature pipe failure due to fatigue when pipes are incorrectly mounted, or subjected to in service vibration.
MCA policy statement on the development of standards in new safety regulations, new and existing ships, following Thames safety inquiry.
High-speed craft are known to suffer some degree of difficulty in following and quartering seas, including behaviour surfing, bow diving and broaching.
Amendment 1 outlines details on how the exposure to radiation can take many forms and can cause varying degrees of harm.
Amendment 2 outlines guidance for seafarers about their protection, rights and entitlements under the Maritime Labour Convention (MLC) 2006.
Amendment 1 outlines information about the safety and duty of care for people on a vessel who are not employed by the ship owner.
For many ships operating offshore, the full extent contained within IMO regulations may be partially exempted and/or equivalent standards.
Amendment 1 provides information on controlling risks in the workplace to the exposure of electromagnetic fields (EMFs).
Fishing vessel owners must have insurance, or another form of financial security, to meet their liabilities and requirements under ILO 188.
Details on the UK provisions on the MCA’s handling of complaints, made to the MCA, relating to the work in fishing convention 2007 (ILO 188).
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