Books / Pamphlets Library

Representing nearly one in three of the large personal injury claims submitted to the UK Club slips, trips & falls are easily and cheaply avoided. Risk Focus: Slips, Trips & Falls shows how to identify potential hazards and provides recommendations to avoid such risks.

Reefer matters - A focus on some of the issues surrounding the carriage of refrigerated cargoes

The UK P&I Club is committed to safety. Its high-level loss prevention programme – the most extensive in the industry – aims to offset rising claims and maintain quality amongst Members. This concise Brochure details all our Loss Prevention initiatives catalogues all our Industry leading Loss Prevention Publications.  

The cause of claims and how to avoid them during pre-loading, loading and unloading.

The UK Club, together with Lloyd's Register, has published a new pocket guide on the importance of professional maintenance and survey preparation for marine lifting appliances.  The consequences of failure include death...

This aide-memoire deals with how to prevent tanker cargo contamination claims and also highlights the cause of claims and how to avoid them.This pamphlet covers important aspect of a tanker vessel operations such as;...

The mandatory introduction of Electronic Chart Display and Information Systems is seen as a major step forward in safe ship operation and protection of the environment

BULK MATTERS accompanies the Club DVD 'Bulk Matters' and highlights some of the most frequent causes of Bulk Carrier claims that the Club sees.

Version 4 of the Best Management Practices to prepare and protect against Piracy off the Somali basin, Arabian Sea and the wider Indian Ocean.

Like the Club Video 'Tanker Matters', this booklet aims to identify some of the most frequent causes of cargo claims encountered on Liquid bulk vessels and how to avoid them. Covering such topics as shortage, contamination,...

Guidance in steps to take in preventing and dealing with stowaways.

A guide to Masters, owners and surveyors in the legal requirements for testing and carrying Iron Ore.

Guidance to Masters, owners and operators in the new reporting obligations and targeting system

Like the Club Video 'Container Matters', this pamphlet aims to identify some of the most frequent causes of cargo claims and how to avoid them. It covers damage to container cargo, how containers should be stuffed, the carriage...

The Club, with the support of several Members, has launched Book it right and pack it tight – a set of four guidebooks on the workings of the International Maritime Dangerous Goods (IMDG) Code. They aredesigned to provide...

The efficient operation of ships requires a high level of management skill and commercial awareness. Written for shipmasters, this major book aims to link the two. Published by the Nautical Institute and sponsored by the UK P&I Club.

It is much easier to lose money in port. This practical guide is aimed at junior officers. It covers arrival; mooring; safety; taking over the watch; commercial documentation; break bulk operations; bulk carriers; container ships; reefers; tankers; ballast operations; stress and stability; cargo condition and quantity; ship's services; pollution; securing cargo; keeping records and departure. Published by the Nautical Institute and sponsored by the UK P&I Club.

This publication is directed towards senior managers, including shipmasters, across the spectrum of shipping activities. This book examines techniques and demonstrates how risk management can be applied. The underlying philosophy contained in the text is that managers have a responsibility to identify hazards, carry out risk assessment and control risks. 

The essence of commercial shipping is now captured here in The Development of Maritime Commercial Practice. The traditions which ensure optimum performance in the shipping industry has evolved over centuries, but these are in danger of being lost over the horizon, as the industry feels obliged to keep cutting costs. To re-affirm the value of good commercial practices the Nautical Institute has initiated a major project with this introduction by Robert Tallack and the two further guides listed above. 

The need to tackle this subject has been around for a long time. Soon after the Club's first Major Claims Analysis findings were produced (in 1990), showing that 58% of all major claims resulted from human error, we were faced...

In February 1996, the Club published a report entitled The Human Factor, which serves as a companion publication to the Ship Inspection Report. The document, offering a wide range of information about seafarers, including...

This is one of two companion manuals specially prepared for UK Club Members to guide ship operators, managers and ships' officers through the intricacies of the various PSC regimes. This volume serves to highlight and explain the...

Good security is teamwork - a responsibility for all onboard, not just a select few, to protect and secure their environment. This supplement illustrates just a few examples of the positive ways in which Members' crews have...

The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) has developed this model Ship Security Plan to provide guidance to shipping companies and their Company Security Officers on the content of Ship Security Plans conforming to the...

Over the past two decades there has been a growing appreciation of the many and varied ways that people contribute to accidents in hazardous industries or simply in every day life. Not long ago most of these would have been...

This supplement to the Loss Prevention News covers accidents involving large fines as well as information on regulations including crew contracts, stowaways and personal injury litigation.  Ordering your copy Club...

Focusing on the cruise industry, this Loss Prevention News supplement covers topics such as the crew risk management programme, the US Disability Act and disabled passengers, legal developments in the USA, the Athens Convention,...

While the general condition and operational and maintenance standards of ships entered with the UK P&I Club are getting better, the improvements will have to continue. Club managers believe that rising insurance costs and...

Produced in 1995 this report to the Members explains in greater detail the nature of the ship inspection process, and records the overall picture presented from an analysis of the data in the inspectors’ reports. It also provides an analysis of the findings from the condition survey programme dating back to 1990