Fishing vessel risk assessments and safety management systems
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This guidance provides details on how to conduct and record a risk assessment, and how safety management systems can help to improve safety on fishing vessels.
Adapted edition
- Document type
- Reference Guide
- Format
- DOCX
- Pages
- 4
- Language
- English
- Version
- 1.0
- Updated
- 2026-09-16
- Category
- Privacy & data protection
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0
Description
This guidance provides details on how to conduct and record a risk assessment, and how safety management systems can help to improve safety on fishing vessels. Consult the original guidance for current legal and operational details.
Contents
- Conducting a risk assessment
- Risk assessment for fishing vessels
- Recording procedures
- Risk assessments of young seafarers
- Safety Management Systems
- Manual handling procedures
- The code of safe working practices for merchant seafarers
- Protection from vibration in equipment
- Drugs and alcohol
Source and licence
Maritime and Coastguard Agency
AttributionMaritime and Coastguard Agency, ‘Fishing vessel risk assessments and safety management systems’ (updated 20 April 2021), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
ChangesNeutral text-only adaptation from the official GOV.UK Content API body: headings, paragraphs, ordered and unordered list items and clickable source-link destinations in an appendix preserved. Images, logos, page design, accessible-format request widgets and linked attachments excluded; normalised whitespace, invisible format marks and typography.
Version history
- v1.016/09/2026