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Robbie Middleton News

01 Oct 2003

Lloyd’s Register Sponsors Human Element Awareness Initiative

Lloyd’s Register is sponsoring a ‘human element awareness’ initiative, to be run by The Nautical Institute. The initiative is expected to run for three years and will aim to raise awareness in the maritime industry about how the human element fits into the design and operation of ships and shipboard equipment. The initiative will bring together knowledge from interdisciplinary sources in the maritime human element field and disseminate it through the publication of a quarterly newsletter, entitled Alert!, and a corresponding web site. The publication, edited by David Squire of The Nautical Institute, will cover a wide variety of professional interests…

12 May 2004

P&I Club Prints ‘Rules of the Road’ Guide

The North of England P&I club has published an authoritative illustrated guide to the main 'rules of the road' for shipping to help reduce the significant annual losses suffered by the industry due to collisions and other avoidable navigational errors. An international survey by the Nautical Institute last year* revealed nearly 50% of seagoing officers believe navigational errors are due to ignorance or disregard of the IMO International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea, 1972 (Colregs). Institute president Captain Robbie Middleton has thus strongly supported the new publication, which he believes 'provides a valuable text to re-establish good practice'. The 30-page ring-bound booklet is based on the popular series of Colregs posters published by the North of England since 2001.