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Guidance notices

Guidance notices provide supporting information on specific technical issues or areas. Generally these notices do not cover technical issues that have already been covered by an existing advisory circular.

The information provided is not usually urgent or time critical but is intended to clarify an issue or technical problem.

Each guidance notice is written for a relevant group that will benefit from the information; including:

• owners, operators, skippers and crew of commercial vessels and jet boats
• ship surveyors
• safety auditors
• safe ship management companies
• maritime safety inspectors
• others involved with commercially operated ships in New Zealand including port companies, harbourmasters, stevedoring companies and manufacturers.

Latest guidance notice

Issue 11, October 2009 — Advice on amendments to ISM code

Read online | Download [PDF: 211Kb, 5 pages]

 

Previous published guidance notices

2009

Issue 10, April 2009 — Electric submersible bilge pumps - secondary

Download [PDF: 87Kb, 1 page]

2008

Issue 9, September 2008 — Bulwark and guardrail height on fishing vessels

Download [PDF: 46Kb, 2 pages]

Issue 8, June 2008 (updated July 2009) — Use of electronic charts, ECDIS and ENCs in New Zealand

Download [PDF: 134Kb, 8 pages]

Issue 7, January 2008 — Large coastal ships - safety requirements

Download [PDF: 64Kb. 4 pages]

2007

Issue 6, November 2007 — Guidance on compliance with Maritime Rules 24B.10(2) and (3) – vehicle lashing

Download [PDF: 104Kb, 5 pages]

Issue 5, November 2007 — Advice on ISM code sections 10.3 AND 10.4

Download [PDF: 48Kb, 3 pages]

Issue 4, October 2007 — Safe winch operation

Download [PDF: 50Kb, 2 pages]

Safe winch appendixes [PDF: 53Kb, 5 pages]

Issue 3, September 2007 — Inboard mounted outboard motors

Download [PDF: 50Kb, 2 pages]

Issue 2, June 2007 — Vehicle requirements for shipment by ro-ro

Download [PDF: 215Kb, 5 pages]

Issue 1, May 2007 — Advice on acceptable freeing port covers

Download [PDF: 105Kb, 3 pages]