ALF MAGNE HORNELAND The different roles of flag state authorities, insurers, crewing agencies, seafarers and ship-owners influence the way they look upon risk in the context of medical selection. While ...
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 ...
... be more time consuming, although not necessarily. The evidence basis for medical fitness standards and criteria The level of scientific evidence that forms the basis for decision-making regarding medical ...
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 ...
ALF MAGNE HORNELAND The probably oldest trace of statutory medical standards for seafarers in Norwegian seafaring history can be found in “Magnus Lagabøtes Landslov”[1] (AD 1276) where it was required ...
... 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 ...
... resolved. The outcomes that maritime medical professionals will encounter range from minor sprains and strains, through broken bones and even compound fractures, to impact death or drowning death. The ...
... for a professional diver last for one year. The medical examination and assessment of divers are based on fitness criteria and considerations of health risks of diving. People suffering from cardiac disease, ...
... as well as any other threats to people’s health. In addition, First Aid must be available and a rescue chain (a determined way to provide medical care from incident to hospital) must be organized. Employees ...
... as accepted best practice. Workers are expected to be free of medical conditions that might cause a safety threat to themselves, colleagues or others, and to be in a physical condition such that they ...
... inequalities in issues such as: medical care, payment of fishers, hours of rest, occupational safety, health and accident, accommodation, etc. Relationships between employers/shipowners and workers are ...
... an emergency. This means that fitness to work as crew on an inland waterway vessel is concerned with task related capabilities rather than the risks of illness requiring a medical consultation developing ...