The Seafarers Hospital Society (SHS) and Yale University joined forces in order to conduct a study and determine the effectiveness of inititatives taken by shipping companies, charities and the wider maritime sector to keep seafarers healthy and safe.
This six-month study aims to review existing research and recommendations, identify current practices, determine their coverage across the industry and assess their perceived effectiveness.
Results of the study will be disseminated to the global seafarer community to encourage the adoption of best practice and improve seafarer health, safety and wellbeing.
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Independent global charity Lloyd’s Register Foundation (the Foundation), which has a mission to engineer a safer world, is also working on the project to provide support and expertise in evidence collection with a specific focus on mental health and wellbeing.
Announcing the study today, Sandra Welch, Chief Executive Officer at SHS, said:
We are delighted to be working with prestigious partners Yale University and Lloyd’s Register Foundation on such an important and ground-breaking study in this our 200th anniversary year. The Seafarers Hospital Society together with many other maritime welfare charities, has undertaken research and implemented numerous programmes aimed at improving the health and wellbeing of seafarers.
At the same time, shipping companies have introduced programmes and adopted practices with the same aim. But no-one has looked across the board at who is doing what and how effective they have been.
This study aims to address this gap in our collective knowledge and understanding so that best practice can be identified and the most effective practices adopted across the maritime sector.
For the record, the study will be led by Martin Slade, Director of Research, Yale Occupational & Environmental Medicine and Director of Yale University Maritime Research Center. Dr Slade .
This is an important new study that will allow the maritime industry, which employees 1.5 million workers, to implement specific practices to help ensure the health and safety of its workforce.