Workboat Code Manual
UK-based marine safety specialist IC Brindle has launched a new guide to the UK Workboat Code 2014, which came into effect on the 1st January this year.
The manual is designed to provide crewmembers with information about the purpose and use of all lifesaving appliances carried onboard, the meanings of a vessel’s alarms and procedures for abandonment as well as survival techniques.
After following the instructions to insert their own vessel and equipment details the user then has a manual complying with section 13.11 of the Code. This manual supersedes Brindle’s ‘Code of Practice Training Manual’ originally published in 2005.
Dorset based IC Brindle Limited was founded in 1994 to supply high quality safety equipment to the international marine industry. The company has since expanded into providing waterside safety equipment to many customers in different industries, as well as specialist equipment to the emergency services. Products range from a simple rescue sling to a search and rescue hovercraft.
Customers include commercial enterprises, local government, the military, civil defence, emergency/rescue services and private individuals. Although based in the UK, over half of the company’s sales are exported across the world.
IC Brindle is also the author and publisher of a range of SOLAS, fire-fighting, survival, and safety equipment manuals, some of which, the company claims, are now regarded as having become the international industry standard. The company’s manuals can be found aboard a wide range of vessels from cruise liners to wind farm support vessels. More details at www.icbrindle.com
By Jake Frith
