Mariners understand the critical necessity of lifeboats, but ideally hope never to use them. Lifeboat Safety: When You've Seen One Lifeboat, You've Only Seen One Lifeboat! highlights the importance of in-depth training, robust familiarity with the specific lifeboat onboard, and rigorous maintenance routines to ensure the safety and reliability of lifeboats.

Whether the crew intends to fight the fire by themselves or take initial actions while waiting for experienced, contracted marine firefighters to arrive, local firefighters usually respond. Shoreside Firefighters and Vessel Fires provides guidance to Members for considering how best to coordinate efforts with shoreside firefighting assets.

Mooring Precautions for Vessels With Large Sail Areas When Expecting High Winds provides crucial insights on wind forces, mooring strategies, and common high-wind challenges. Their large sail areas expose them to potential beam wind hazards, leading to risks like a vessel breakaway that can result in a grounding, allision, collision, or damage to third party property.

What is considered "heavy weather" for one vessel, may not be the same for another vessel. Vessel motions in inclement weather exposes crew members on deck to risks as well as to the vessel and cargo alike.

Heavy Weather: All Hands on Deck? suggests specific risks to crewmembers which should be carefully considered and mitigated whether the crew members need to go out on deck to secure cargo, secure loose mooring lines, secure watertight doors and hatches that may have opened, or any other reason to secure the safety of the vessel. Available in English and new and traditional Mandarin.

Heavy Weather: Protecting the Vessel and Cargo to Prevent Claims suggests specific risks to be considered and mitigated to avoid damage to cargo, physical damage to the vessel, water damage due to water ingress into cargo hold areas and loss of cargo overboard. Available in English and new and traditional Mandarin.