CEO Chat (continued)


At this time of the year, we are scoping out our training plans for the coming months. In this bulletin you will find details about a large yacht and small craft training event on 18 February including a factory visit to the Sunseeker facility in Poole, Dorset. There are also details of a two day workshop in Dublin on 11/12 March – our first trip to run a training event in Ireland for many years. Andy Ridyard is delivering a three day programme on behalf of the Institute entitled Electrical Control Systems for Marine Surveyors - ‘From Ohm’s Law to PLCs’ from 19-21 March. We have a couple of online seminars coming up too, including the ever popular online report writing seminar, which anyone anywhere in the world can join, on 12 February at 12.00 UK time. More details on these events are elsewhere in this bulletin – and do participate as they are for your benefit.


The IIMS social media channels are worth checking out having had a lot of fresh content added in recent days. We have published 30 new videos to the IIMS YouTube Channel at https://bit.ly/1jRuSje - all freely available. In addition, there are now 44 audio podcasts available to listen to as you ‘Train as you Travel’.


Survey well.


New workboat code edition 2 is published by the UK Maritime & Coastguard Agency


After a considerable wait and following collaboration with a number of interested parties to gather industry feedback on the draft MSN for the Workboat Code: Edition 2, the MCA has now published the new Code. This Code applies to small workboats used commercially that operate at sea and to pilot boats of any size operating either at sea or in categorised waters (i.e. inland). It applies to United Kingdom


Two new UK codes


vessels wherever they may be at, and to non-United Kingdom vessels in UK waters or operating from UK ports.


The workboat code edition 2 amends the original Code, “The Safety of Small Workboats and Pilot Boats – A Code of Practice” introduced in 1998, and applies to small workboats and pilot boats, the keels of which are laid, or are at a similar stage of construction, on or after 31 December 2018. This is defined in the Merchant Shipping Notice issued in accordance with the regulation 3(1) of the enabling regulations. From that date, this code supersedes the original Code, and also the use of Marine Guidance Note MGN 280(M)1 “Small Commercial Vessels and Pilot Boat Code of Practice” for small workboats and pilot boats and the Workboat Code Industry Working Group Technical Standard published in June 2014.


It should also be noted that where any existing vessel upgrades, and phases-in, to the Workboat Code Edition 2 regime, it must do so fully. A vessel cannot meet a combination of the Workboat Code Edition 2 standards and those of earlier codes or standards.


This Code must, from the date of publication (8 January 2019), be used for new workboats and pilot boats. Existing workboats that wish to meet this Code should do so as described by the Code and in full. This Code should be read in conjunction with MSN 1892 and SI 1998 No. 1609.


Click to download the 278 page Workboat Code: Edition 2 at https://bit.ly/2QNFAbR. Mike Schwarz Chief Executive Officer


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