Health and Safety
Innovative stability monitor launched that enhances the safety of fishing vessels, is now available for fishermen throughout the UK, Ireland, and other European countries. Developed by Hook Marine Ltd, the Scottish-based safety engineering company, the ...
Safety equipment for Shetland inshore fleet – The Shetland Fishermen’s Association has begun distributing safety equipment to its members in the inshore fleet. It follows the award of a European Maritime Fisheries Fund (EMFF) grant ...
Training for Thai Union fishers. Thai Union Group PCL and the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) co-hosted a health and safety training workshop for more than 70 fishers recently in Chumphon, Thailand. Participants received a ...
Failure of throw bag rescue line during a capsize drill on an unnamed rowing boat Widnes, UK. On the evening of 24 March 2018, the Warrington Rowing Club was carrying out a boat capsize drill ...
Successful major incident training day at Mowi fish feed plant. Representatives from Fire Scotland, the Scottish Ambulance Service, the Marine Coastguard Agency, Police Scotland and the Highland Council all participated in a major incident training ...
Fishermen encouraged to take free safety training courses while funding is available. Seafish, the public body that supports the £10bn UK seafood industry, is encouraging commercial fishermen across the country to take advantage of the ...
£4.8 million support for coastal communities for fishery and aquaculture projects. A share of the latest round of European Maritime and Fisheries Funding awards has been awarded to 29 projects across Scotland. The fund aims ...
New Seafish website offers easy to use industry-wide resource. Seafish, the public body that supports the £10bn UK seafood industry, previously managed a number of separate sites for different initiatives, the new site brings everything ...
The health and safety of fishermen gains centre stage at the European Parliament. The European social partners for fisheries, Europêche and ETF, co-hosted a successful conference yesterday evening (7 November) in the European Parliament with ...
A new fishing vessel working conditions law will come into force from this November. The Maritime & Coastguard Agency (MCA) will require UK fishing vessels to comply with the International Organization’s Working In Fishing Convention. ...
Marine Accident Investigation Branch, MAIB report on dragging anchor by Celtic Spirit, and the general cargo vessel’s subsequent collisions with Atlantic Explorer and Celtic Warrior, River Humber, England on 1 March 2018 At 02461 on ...
Stern Trawler Illustris Accident Investigation Report has just been released by the MAIB 15/2018 The MAIB investigation report into marine accident on the stern trawler Illustris, including what happened, safety lessons learned and recommendations has ...
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