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Procedures for the isolation of machinery prior to maintenance to be included in planned maintenance system
Explains how voyage data recorders (VDRs) should be tested after installation and annually thereafter.
Potential effects on performance of prescription and or over the counter drugs.
Recommended standards for the inspection and testing of pressurised seamless steel gas cylinders for fire fighting appliances and other onboard purposes.
Describes notification exemption arrangements where allowed under the MS (Vessel Traffic Monitoring and reporting requirements) regulations 2004.
Guidance on identifying and dealing with overweight lifeboats and rescue boats.
This note outlines the procedure for applying for a substantial equivalence on UK flagged vessels which are subject to the MLC, 2006.
Amendment 2 includes the 2014 Amendments to the MLC which came into force internationally in January 2017.
Companies procuring, storing, distributing or supplying Category C (either as stand alone kits or contained within packed survival craft)
MCA criteria for visual inspection of immersion suits stored in airtight packaging.
Notice to all owners, operators, managing agents, skippers and crew.
This notice sets out the factors that the MCA (on behalf of the Secretary of State) will take into account when considering whether to grant an application for such an exemption.
This note clarifies UK interpretations for determining load line length on vessel hull forms which feature cut-outs, removable end sections and stepped or recessed decks.
This MGN draws attention to procedures and minimum levels of service for the testing and maintenance of EPIRBs; automatically including the ship's position in distress alerts; and, supplying radio installations from an …
Amendments to MSN 1858 yacht requirements to gain an exemption from completing the training record book
Information on the amendments made to the International Convention on MARPOL Annex I by the IMO Resolutions adopted since 2004.
This Marine Information Note provides a list of changes to the regulations in SOLAS II-1 with an entry into force on 1 January 2024.
The monitoring and evaluation required by promoters of local authority major schemes.
Instructions for the guidance of surveyors on international load line
Notice provides detailed information required to comply with the Merchant Shipping and Fishing Vessels (Health and Safety at Work) (Chemical Agents) Regulations 2010.
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