medical

  • NUTFA slams medical certificate ‘fiasco’

    NUTFA slams medical certificate ‘fiasco’

    12th December 2023

    Jerry Percy, director of NUTFA, which represents under-10m vessels, has said that the MCA’s introduction of compulsory medical certification for fishermen has been ‘a fiasco from start to finish’. On 29 November, 30 hours before the deadline by which all…

  • ML5: further complications as deadline looms

    ML5: further complications as deadline looms

    29th November 2023

    With the ML5 medical certification deadline just days away, the NFFO was attempting last week to clarify an additional issue with respect to its implementation in relation to vessel owners – an avenue that it says has been poorly explained…

  • NFFO joins call for freeze of ML5

    NFFO joins call for freeze of ML5

    15th November 2023

    The NFFO added its voice to that of the NUTFA last week, asking the MCA to paise the implementation of the ML5 requirements, which are due to come into effect on 1 December. In an open letter to the MCA…

  • SFF Executive Committee: ‘Much to do in the months ahead’

    SFF Executive Committee: ‘Much to do in the months ahead’

    8th March 2023

    HPMAs, offshore wind, crewing and fishermen’s medical certificates feature prominently on a busy agenda for 2023, reports the SFF Executive Committee The Scottish Fishermen’s Federation (SFF) Executive Committee met recently in Edinburgh for its first meeting of 2023. Time was…

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