The Maritime Safety Committee,
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The Maritime Safety Committee,

  1 The Maritime Safety Committee, at its sixty-second session (24 May to 28 May 1993), noting a report by IMPA (MSC 62/21/3) on the continued rate of accidents to pilots while using pilot hoists, instructed the Sub-Committee on Life-Saving, Search and Rescue (LSR) to consider the matter and recommend as appropriate.

  2 At its sixty-fourth session (5 to 9 December 1994), the Committee concurred in the recommendation of the twenty-fifth session of the LSR Sub-Committee and approved a revision of the poster attached to MSC/Circ.568 concerning use of pilot hoists.

  3 The Committee, in view of the fact that the minimum distance between the nearer side ropes of the pilot hoist and the pilot ladder rigged in accordance with SOLAS regulation V/17(f)(v) is at least 1.4 m, rendering transfer from the pilot hoist to the ladder impracticable, agreed that a pilot ladder combined with an accommodation ladder is the safest method of embarking or disembarking a pilot on ships with high freeboards and that a pilot hoist should only be used following agreement between the master and the pilot.

  4 Member Governments are requested to bring the revised poster and the above recommendation to the attention of their pilots, seafarers, shipowners, ship operators and others concerned with pilot boarding arrangements.

Parent topic: MSC/Circular.568/Rev.1 – Pilot Transfer Arrangements - Required boarding arrangements for pilots – (23 February 1995)Clasifications Register Note: See also MSC/Circular.773
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