... in preventing such events includes: responsibility for assessing the medical aspects of fitness for those undertaking safety critical duties as well as for identifying those likely to have an excess ...
... and an appropriate management plan should be instigated to encourage weight loss and an increase in fitness. All seafarers on board, obese or not, should have access to an appropriate diet, exercise ...
... need to have clinical skills in the assessment of fitness and an understanding of the practicalities of delivering emergency treatment at sea. They may work ashore or sometimes on board a ship. There is ...
... Results are biased as, after the first examination, they come from a pre-selected population. Those with serious health problems will not present for an examination to determine their fitness to continue ...
... healthy working and living conditions, decisions on fitness to work at sea and arrangements for responding to medical incidents on board ship. The stake holders involved include Ship owners and their ...
... 2006 (MLC) and STCW Convention, 1978, as amended include an international requirement that seafarers have a medical certificate of fitness and instructions as how the medical examinations are conducted. ...
... cases, the insurance company will try to establish if any person is liable for the event and its consequences and attempt to transfer the cost to these liable people. With regards to fitness for work ...
... not seen in seafarers. Passengers with pre-existing conditions should seek medical advice regarding their fitness to travel, well before their planned travel dates. The evaluating doctor should be aware ...
... week rule for pregnancy. The same limit is also included in the fitness criteria of the ILO/IMO Guidelines on the medical examinations of seafarers [8] and used by many flag States in their medical regulations. ...