... at meetings, or individual audits from the maritime authority. Only a few national maritime authorities approved doctors outside their own borders. The best known are the UK, Germany, Netherlands and Norway. ...
... Focus Fitness for work / absence of disease Working environment / Occupational injuries and diseases Individual’s health Perspective Maximum two years ...
... medical record of the individual. Work on cruise ships usually means working in big multicultural crews. It also implies that job tasks will be influenced by the main objective of the company – to serve ...
... 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 ...
... survival and death usually in a period of 1, 5, and 10 years. Sometimes we can find data that apply to the group of individuals to which the seafarer belongs, other times we cannot. We often have to ...
... ‘low’, ‘negligible’, ‘inconspicuous’, ‘considerable’, ‘moderate’, ‘high’, ‘very high’ etc. We have no guarantee that different individuals have the same interpretation of this verbal grading of likelihood. ...
ALF MAGNE HORNELAND There are important differences between negative and positive selection. The starting point is a healthy individual, suffering from no known medical condition. Whilst the negative ...
... This does neither seem to restrain the eagerness of many developers of medical fitness criteria for seafarers to require such tests, nor medical examiners to carry them out. Nobody knows if the individuals ...
ALF MAGNE HORNELAND Medical selection inevitably involves differential treatment of individuals. Some will be allowed to work in a specific position or profession, while others will be denied. The ...
... considering ability to work rather than taking care of the individual sailor’s health. In this chapter, we will look at some of the general principles that apply to medical selection, rather than looking ...
... standards, by builders, certifying bodies and national regulators. Some accidents happen due to ship crews’ failure to rig individual boarding arrangements in a safe and secure manner. Despite many years ...
... of security. Although there is considerable variation in individual susceptibility, performance is impaired in all individuals and short term adaptation to the narcotic effects does not occur. Many divers ...
... from port to park. The carry up to 24 passengers with a nautical crew of 3. PPE must be worn. People on board often struggle with sea sickness, sometimes tiredness, boredom, and a limited individual space ...
... is supported by higher level medical advice from doctors available for consultation onshore. Individuals who are unlikely to return to work in a reasonable period of time, and those who are more seriously ...
... around the world. Racing in yachts has always been risky. In the early days, equipment was quite basic, with little regard for individual safety, and certainly no personal safety aids such as life jackets. ...
... the firms charter vessels on time charters and fix them on voyage charters. We also see combinations of these operational alternatives within individual shipping companies. The firm may choose to have ...
... information. There are a number of barriers to analysis, except at the level of individual clinics. Very few maritime authorities or health ministries collect, analyse and publish the findings from statutory ...
... them rather than on patterns of illness and injury to individuals. This lack of analysis on personal injuries and diseases does not appear to be deliberate neglect as there were few public demands for ...
... individual-oriented medicine, occupational medicine and medical selection, integrated with knowledge of the maritime context. This textbook was first published as the Textbook of Maritime Medicine in ...
... port. Again, the costs of repatriation are borne by the ship owner including the cost of an airfare (with security escorts). It also includes costs and expenses in guarding and processing the individuals ...