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Are you looking for the complete guide to the Boat Safety Scheme examination including preparing for examination, booking the examiner and complete details of every check on boat. All checks are colour coded so you will know what is being checked and how as well as whether the issue of the certificate depend on passing that check.

It also contains useful best practice safety advice and other useful information pointers.

 

Find an examiner for where your boat is lying. Here, you can search for an examiner by name in the search box, by address or by county. There is an interactive map and a drop down list of 'counties'.

Choosing one of these will display a list of all examiners willing to work in that county.

 

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For latest news about the Boat Safety Scheme, safety alerts and recalls please click on this link. For news and information updates prior to 2011, go to this link for archive items.

don't drown test your smoke alarm

Start the new decade with a positive action to fit a smoke alarm and test it routinely to avoid drowning, not in the cut, but in the toxic smoke of a boat fire. According to the latest Fire Kills campaign, in just two to three breaths of toxic smoke from a fire on your boat, you could be unconscious. In recent years four people have died in boat fires at night or when they have been asleep and a working smoke alarm could have helped them to escape. Find out more about fitting a smoke alarm on our fire portal.

If you are thinking of becoming a BSS Examiner, please visit this microsite to learn more about what it means to be a BSS examiner, the required qualifications and background experience, the necessary additional skills and where the two-week training course takes place. Applications can only be made online and no information is sent by post. All trainees and examiners must have full and regular access to emails, the internet and text messages.
If you have any questions, queries, comments or if you have a incident of fire or carbon monoxide poisoning or even a close call, then go to the Contact Us page.



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