... combined with a lack of exercise and a high level of professional stress, represents a crucial risk factor for cardiovascular disease among seafarers. In current seafaring situations, warm meals are ...
... illness and disease to highlight this relationship, where the former refers to the individual experience of suffering while the latter to the medical experts’ diagnosis of this suffering11. The greater ...
... diseases, the consequence of which has economic impact. Over the last decade, organizations like ISWAN (The International Seafarers’ Welfare and Assistance Network), the successor organisation to ICSW ...
TIM CARTER Introduction Seafarers working at sea need to safely and effectively perform a wide variety of tasks. Most involve the seafarer receiving information about their surroundings, analysing ...
... in emergencies. They do not include medicines needed for the long term treatment of disease, nor do they necessarily meet the needs of passenger vessels, in particular for the treatment of children International ...
... an isolation room for sick seafarers with infectious diseases e.g. influenza, norovirus or chickenpox. As a worst case scenario and an incident with multiple casualties the sick bay may need to focus as ...
... seafaring for as long as man has navigated the seas. Throughout history, shipwrecks have claimed the lives of countless numbers of seafarers and illnesses, disease and malnutrition at sea have claimed ...
... of a seafarer with an infectious disease who cannot be appropriately isolated on board and whose ongoing presence on board may infect others and threaten the safety of the ship. If the patient is suspected ...
... port physician. Not only to have an idea about safety and the ability to continue to work on board, but also to identify aspects of work that may cause injury or disease to a seafarer. Hazard definition ...
PASCUALITO GUTAY Why repatriate The seafarer may be repatriated for ongoing care at home if: a seafarer’s illness or injury may worsen with work, the disease may spread to affect coworkers on ...
... disease risks (xx). Management of casualties and from illness at sea (xx) Risk reduction by crew selection (xx) The human element Injuries and illnesses compared Injury is almost always a direct ...