... a decision regarding the level of risk connected to the seafarer’s health condition. The heuristic approach still is the most important. The medical examiner is supposed to assess vision, hearing, physical ...
... provided the doctor followed the published standards[13]. Seafarers’ medical examiners should be aware of those issues. In principle, nobody should be denied working on board without an individual risk ...
... risk assessment according to position, job tasks, ship type and trade area. In the end of the chapter, emphasis will be given to some special characteristics for other types of seafaring than merchant ...
... on ships, to address the navigational risks associated with critical elements of a voyage. Pilots have ‘conduct of the navigation’, under command of the ship’s Master, for specific, higher risk waterways, ...
... environment poses a high risk of fatal or serious accidents. Contamination of the breathing gas with chemical substances during diving has been observed both inshore and offshore. Divers may be exposed ...
... phase. All employees must pass a medical examination before undergoing all the necessary training that is mandatory for working offshore in a safe manner, according to the risk assessment of jobs and ...
... to be aggravated by work at sea, likely to render them unfit for service, or endanger the safety or health of anyone else on board. The location of fishing and the risks involved Fishing at sea has ...
... 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 ...
... 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. ...
... to complete a Personal Survival course. All of these factors can lead to a difference in their approach to life at sea, the risks involved and the environment in which they are living and working. Medical ...
... and disseminated with little regard to the requirements of medical confidentiality (see chapter 4.8 on PEMEs and 2.9 on ethics) The at-risk population of seafarers Military seafarers are state employees ...
... them open to liability claims, either for direct costs or because of health related failures in performance that put the ship and other crewmembers at risk. They may resist studies that they consider are ...
... of the one you propose to assess risk or to specify interventions on? The ideal is to have information about a similar population of seafarers to the one you are concerned with. If the results come from ...
... on health risks The previous section outlines a model for considering the state of knowledge on seafarer health risks and their management. On review of the available studies up to 2011[2] [3] , most ...
... High Risk Area HRS High Risk Ships (according to PSC) HSC High-spees craft HVDC High Voltage Direct Current IACS International Association of Classification Societies ...
... had priority. Rome was starving and their ship was to return at any cost. Navigation of the seas is as important to modern societies, as it was to ancient Rome. The risk acceptance, however, the value ...
... and when refugees take to the sea the risk factors multiply significantly. Under the time honoured traditions of seafaring and as set out under Article 98 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of ...
... in piracy high-risk areas in the Indian Ocean. The case raised jurisdictional issues when the owner argued that the ship was outside India’s territorial waters when it was intercepted by the coast guard. ...
... motorboats and with the aim of hijacking vessels and crew to obtain a high ransom, often more than 1 million USD.[12] These so-called ‘high risk areas’ are in the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden, ...
... This is due to factors such as improved ship design and technology, increased regulations, advances in risk management and more robust safety management systems and procedures on vessels.[7] However, despite ...