... as running a safe and reliable service. Audits of approved doctors have been in place in several countries having approved doctors abroad. Examples are the UK, Germany and the Netherlands. The country ...
ALF MAGNE HORNELAND Some countries have specific requirements for first time approval as a medical examiner. They may also have specific requirements for in-service approved doctors, like regular attendance ...
... hazards that are unusual on merchant ships. The standards and criteria are strictly national, although some similarities can be found, especially between countries belonging to the same military alliance. ...
... a clear violation of international antidiscrimination agreements and national antidiscrimination legislation of many countries. Today HIV positive individuals can live a normal life without having a risk ...
... (COC), resulting in a lost job at sea. The effect is equivalent to directly losing the COC, and implies financial consequences that usually are challenging for any seafarer. In some countries, this ...
... or other provisions for appeal specific for the party[1] [2] [3]. This has been organised differently in different countries. UK Maritime and Coastguard Agency are using a system of referees, Norway ...
... is usual to carry out cognitive or psychometric tests in many clinics, mainly in the typical crewing countries and mainly du to enhanced PEME requirements. However, at present there is no evidence that ...
... Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), adopted in 1948 by the United Nations general Assembly, is now regarded as well-established international law in most countries, whereas other countries disagree, ...
... until 2013, that ILO and IMO jointly issued the “Guidelines on the Medical Examination of Seafarers” [12], based on MLC 2006[13] and the STCW Convention[14]. These guidelines have been used by some countries ...
... through a staged license program of increasing ship size or type, over a period of perhaps three years, to achieve an unlimited pilot licence for a specific area. Alternatively, some countries now offer ...
... aid kit, etc. Welfare arrangements for inland waterway crews are limited and contact with home is either done using mobile phones, as in African countries, or by internet where there is 4G coverage. ...
... covered by the STCW requirements for eyesight etc. that apply to deck and engine staff and in many countries are not required to complete any safety training before going to sea. In others, they are required ...
... one vessel. Such “one-ship” firms typically are subsidiaries of a holding company. The holding company may register vessels, and the ship owning “one-ship” firm in different countries. A global market ...
TIM CARTER Gaps are considered by reference to the categories listed in Figure 1 in A.3.1 At home Patterns of ill-health in home country For some countries there is good information on the causes ...
... Officer of the Watch OPEC Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries OR Open registry (where shipowners from any nation may register their ship) OSH Occupational Safety ...
... better economic conditions is not new. Large scale departures of people often follow crises and conflicts in their home countries. Recently, international attention has focused on the movement of Somalis ...
... and imprison an individual for a breach of its laws.[1] When a crime is committed on board, the legal position is complicated and the rights of individual countries to prosecute will be different, not ...
... annually in illicit profits, and the majority is generated off the coasts of developing countries.[39] It has major environmental, societal, and security impacts in developing countries, particularly in ...
... so when a contagious disease was suspected as the cause of death, or in wartime. Nowadays in the 2000’s, burial at sea is still regularly performed by the navies of many countries and burial or the spreading ...
... an attack against human dignity and especially affects seafarers from Third World countries. It leaves entire crews and their families mired in despair and anguish. How it all begins A ship is detained ...