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The Ship Captain’s Medical Guide is intended primarily for use on vessels where there is no medical professional, such as a doctor, on board. It provides assistance and direction for crew members when it becomes necessary for them to assess and treat trauma and medical illness.
For the 23rd edition, the guide has been comprehensively rewritten, with the aim of reflecting current best medical practice, applying this to the maritime environment. The new guide also incorporates advances over the past 20 years in medical technology, treatment algorithms and global communications.
It contains:
• Flow charts to aid evaluation and treatment
• Incorporation of ‘red flags’ to aid identification of potentially life-threatening conditions
• Clear, authoritative advice and easy-to-follow guidance
• Step-by-step illustrations to explain emergency procedures
• Cross references to further detail
• Anatomical illustrationsMore Information

A poster for display upon vessels containing the Maritime and Coastguard Agency guidance on SOLAS regulations regarding life-saving signalsMore Information

A visual guide to response signals from life-saving stations prepared by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency in accordance with SOLAS regulations. Sold as a pack of 10 cards.More Information

The Safety of Navigation, implementing SOLAS - Chapter V has been prepared to help ship-owners, masters, crews and industry to understand and comply with the SOLAS Regulations and offers practical guidance on how they should be implemented.

It is important that all parties fully understand the requirements of Chapter V and the associated documents and recognise their own specific responsibilities under each Regulation.

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The consolidated to 31 July 2015 edition incorporates the three series of Merchant Shipping Notices (MSNs), Marine Guidance Notes (MGNs) and Marine Information Notes (MINs).
These notices publicise to the shipping and fishing industries important safety, pollution prevention and other relevant information.
This publication supersedes the previous edition (Merchant Shipping Notices, Marine Guidance Notes and Marine Information Notes - Consolidated to 31 October 2013, ISBN 9780115532948).More Information

Human behaviour lies at the centre of both the profits and the losses of the maritime industry, it is therefore crucial that everyone involved in shipping has an understanding of this; A Guide To Human Behaviour In The Shipping Industry DVD is the essential training resource aimed at improving this understanding. Aimed at everyone in the shipping industry, this DVD which has been approved by the Maritime & Coastguard Agency (MCA), offers a unique insight into the role of human behaviour in safety at sea. It explains the fundamental aspects of human behaviour, which together constitute what the commercial maritime sector calls 'the human element'.More Information

This updated Garbage Record Book is to be used on board vessels to record discharges from ships and incinerations on board ships.
In accordance with regulation 10 of Annex V of the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, 1973, as modified by the Protocol of 1978 (MARPOL), a record is to be kept of each discharge operation or completed incineration. This includes discharges into the sea, to reception facilities, or to other ships, as well as the accidental loss of garbage.
The updated rules shall enter into force on the 1 March 2018.

The Garbage Record Book is split into two parts:
Part 1: Relevant for all ships
Part 2: Relevant only to ships carrying solid bulk cargoes.More Information

The Code of Safe Working Practices for Merchant Seafarers 2015 consolidated edition provides guidance on improving health and safety on board vessels and articulates how statutory obligations should be fulfilled. It is intended primarily for merchant seafarers on United Kingdom registered vessels.
It is a statutory requirement for the Code to be carried on board all UK ships other than fishing vessels and pleasure craft. The Code contains essential health and safety information and it must be made available to any seafarer on board the ship who requests it.
The consolidated 2015 edition includes the Code of Safe Working Practices for Merchant Seafarers 2015 Edition plus Amendments 1 and 2 to the Code.More Information

Amendment 1 to the Code of Safe Working Practices for Merchant Seafarers (COSWP) 2015 provides updated safety signs and a new chapter on Ships Serving Offshore Renewables.
Amendment 1 includes the following: • New chapter (Chapter 32) covering Ships Serving Offshore Renewables. • Updated signs in Chapter 9, Safety Signs.
The amendment consists of loose-leaf pages that replace select pages from the main edition binder.More Information

Amendment 2 to the Code of Safe Working Practices for Merchant Seafarers (COSWP) 2015 Edition provides new information on sunglasses, the risk from sharps, solid carbon dioxide, and safe access to small craft.
Amendment 2 includes the following: • Update to Chapter 3, with the addition of information on sunglasses and risk from sharps. • Update to Chapter 21, with information about solid carbon dioxide. • Update to Chapter 22, with information about safe access to small craft.More Information

Amendment 3 to the Code of Safe Working Practices for Merchant Seafarers (COSWP) 2015 edition provides updates to chapters 18 and 19.
Amendment 3 includes the following: • Update to Chapter 18, with text reordered to move standards for equipment to an annex. • Update to Chapter 19, with text reordered to move standards for equipment to an annex.
The amendment consists of loose-leaf pages that replace select pages from the main edition binder.More Information

Oil Record Book (Part I): Machinery Space Operations (All Ships) is required to record Machinery Space Operations for every ship of over 400 tons gross tonnage (other than oil tankers) and every oil tanker over the 150 tons gross tonnage. This is a vital record book, required in accordance with regulation 17 of the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships (1973), as modified by the Protocol of 1978 (MARPOL73/78). The Oil Record Book (Part II): Cargo/Ballast Operations (Oil Tankers) is available to purchase separately.More Information

Oil Record Book (Part II): Cargo / Ballast Operations (Oil Tankers) is required in accordance with regulation 36 of Annex I of the International Convention for the Prevention of pollution from Ships (1973), as modified by the Protocol of 1978 (MARPOL 73/78). The Oil Record Book (Part I): Machinery Space operations (All Ships) is available to purchase separately, please see below for further information.More Information

Aimed at everyone in the shipping industry, the Guide explains the fundamental aspects of human behaviour, which together constitute what the commercial maritime sector calls 'the human element'. It makes clear that the human element is neither peripheral nor optional in the pursuit of a profitable and safe shipping industry. The Guide clearly shows that managing the human element must take place simultaneously at all levels of the industry.More Information

Essential for all vessels who wish to enter an Emission Control Area, at berth in a United Kingdom port, a UK passenger ship operating in UK waters, controlled waters, and any other passenger ship which calls at a port in the UK. The Merchant Shipping (Prevention of Air Pollution from Ships) Regulation 2008, as amended, require the master of a ship - to which the regulation apply - to make a record to demonstrate compliance for any ship using separate fuel oils and make a record of any fuel changeover operation.More Information

This Codes of Practice for Controlling Risks on Board Ships - 3 Book Pack contains the three most up-to-date Codes of Practice related to controlling risks on board ships. The three new codes are: • Code of Practice for Controlling Risks due to Hand-transmitted Vibration on Ships • Code of Practice for Controlling Risks due to Noise on Ships • Code of Practice for Controlling Risks due to Whole-body Vibration in Ships
Buying this three book pack will save you £8.00 on the RRP of the individual titles.

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The Code of Practice deals with: • The assessment of risk from hand-transmitted vibration onboard ships • The measurement and evaluation of hand-transmitted vibration • The assessment of the severity of exposures to hand-transmitted vibration • The identification of controls to eliminate or reduce exposures to hand-transmitted vibration. • The involvement of crew members in the control hand-transmitted vibration risks, including the provision of information and training • The provision of health monitoring and surveillance for hand-transmitted vibration.More Information

The Code of Practice deals with: bull; The assessment of noise risk onboard ships bull; The measurement of noise levels bull; The determination of noise exposure levels for individual workers, or classes of workers performing the same tasks but on different watches bull; The means of protecting the seafarer from the risk of noise-induced hearing damage when it is not technically feasible or reasonably practicable to limit noise exposure to a non-harmful levelMore Information

The Code of Practice deals with the: • assessment of risk from whole-body vibration onboard ships • measurement and evaluation of whole-body vibration • assessment of the severity of exposures to whole-body vibration • identification of controls to eliminate or reduce exposures to whole-body vibration • involvement of crew members in the control of whole-body vibration risks, including the provision of information and training • provision of health monitoring and surveillance for whole-body vibration.More Information

In order to assist Masters and Officers in maintaining the necessary records, the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) have consolidated the GMDSS Radio Log Book and Simplified Fishing Vessel GMDSS Radio Log Book into a brand new updated edition. This single publication invites users to delete as appropriate and complete as required allowing the single document to be used as either publication, dependant on the users specific requirements. More Information