... On completion of this course, the participants shall be able to conduct medical examinations of seafarers in accordance with laws, regulations and guidelines, which set the requirements for such ...
... to another country. The crew is composed of seafarers from one country - the country of the flag the vessels fly. Crewmembers usually are young, and they are selected on stricter criteria than for merchant ...
ALF MAGNE HORNELAND We have touched upon the issue of using additional laboratory tests for screening purposes in the pre-employment medical examination of seafarers. We will have a closer look at that ...
ALF MAGNE HORNELAND A seafarer must hold a valid medical certificate to be able to work on board a ship. Losing the medical certificate means that the seafarer cannot make use of his Certificate of Competence ...
ALF MAGNE HORNELAND According to the MLC 2006, the STCW convention and as outlined in the ILO/IMO Guidelines on the medical examination of seafarers, appeals procedures should be in place for seafarers ...
... employees on Norwegian ships and mobile offshore units. First step: The identification of possible medical incidents Given a known medical condition in a seafarer, the medical examiner will be able ...
... in a context regarding the direct effect on crew, ship, operations and the seafarer, indirectly also on the effect on liability and finances of ship operations and incidents that occur. In Table 1 below, ...
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 ...
... cut off points for inclusion or exclusion of the candidate. The table B-I/9 of the STCW Code[2] lists the minimum tasks a seafarer must manage, and the corresponding physical and cognitive capacity. ...
... than strategies that require more information. Seafarers’ doctors make decisions several or many times a day and probably use a heuristic approach most of the time. An evidence-based approach often would ...
... seafarers’ doctor, is illustrated by a case for the Norwegian Anti-Discrimination Tribunal in 2019[12] (see frame). Norwegian Anti-Discrimination Tribunal - Case No. DIN-2019-440 The Norwegian ...
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 ...
ALF MAGNE HORNELAND Pre-employment selection of seafarers probably have been carried out for as long as people have been employed for service on board ships, based on the master’s intuition and sovereignty ...
... Watch keeping for Seafarers (STCW)[2]. Entry qualifications Commonly, the required entry level qualification for a pilot is an Unlimited Master’s certificate of competency, Master (foreign going) ...
... sites. Employees are often specialists in their trained jobs but not seafarers. Additionally, in the first years of European offshore wind Industry most of them never thought they would be working offshore ...
... bathroom facilities, with common mess and entertainment facilities. Crew members are expected to fulfil the normal criteria for seafarers’ medical standards,3 and in addition, to maintain a level of ...
... vessels may have more than one hundred seafarers on board and the diversity of a fishing vessel as a workplace is as great as that of factories on land, depending on the size and sort of fishery. In small ...
... Medical aspects Many of the health risks are similar to those for other seafarers. In particular injuries associated with mooring and rope handling are frequent. Additional risks do occur in tropical ...
... number of passenger service staff. The number of seafarers employed and the roles they fulfil vary hugely depending upon the route, length of time at sea, number of passengers and type of vessel. Roles ...