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Achieving and maintaining a healthy weight onboard is important for crew’s overall health and can help them prevent and control many diseases and conditions. The lifestyle changes onboard, emotional factors, genetics and some hormone problems may cause an abnormal increase in the size and the amount of fat cells in the body resulting in overweight and obesity. 

Anxiety, social isolation, pressure of work and disturbed sleep, may negatively influence the mental health of seafarers.  Taking care of the mental wellbeing of crew is vital. How industry places a high priority on this issue?

Apart from taking care of their physical hygiene, seafarers are dealing with the same fundamental problems as we do ashore - challenges, pain, stress and troubles - only some of the circumstances change.

Women in ONG can be a game changer and drive inclusive growth. As well as in all sectors, gender balanced business units in offshore industry may show innovation and progress; better employee engagement; improved organizational performance; creativity in decision making and morale; better client retention and increased profits.

Considering that most accidents are contributed to the human element, ECDIS has come along in order to try and change the landscape.  However, there are many cases which showcase the new technology involves many challenges that cannot be ignored. The improper use of ECDIS can result in accidents; therefore a change in operators’ mindset is required.

Cyber resilience is the concept to help organisations as it looks at a wider scope where it comprises cyber security and business resilience. Cyber resilience can be defined as the organization’s ability to withstand and/or quickly recover from cyber events that disrupt usual business operations.

The continuous operations of an organization is an important procedure which comes to support the contingency planning, response and recovery from an incident which affects the proper flow of operations. In other words, business continuity reflects the alternative way that the organization will use to keep its key business activities on-going after an adverse event, such as a cyber attack. 

There is no single thing that can cause chest pain and other disorders of the heart, but there are several risk factors that contribute to it. For a better heart heald, people working at sea and all people as well, coming from all ages, are advised being physically active, managing conditions such as high cholesterol, high blood pressure, diabetes and depression, managing their weight and avoiding social isolation.

professionalism has to do with how you conduct yourself during your business affairs; different tasks to different people. Talking about shipping industry, seafaring with its STCW rules could meet all the requirements of a profession. However, professionalism has many attributes.

ISO 45001 will help the organizations not only to manage their OH&S risks and improve their OH&S performance by developing and implementing effective policies and objectives, but also to reduce workplace incidents and the cost of insurance premiums.