Tag: life onboard

The American P&I Club, has issued a guide, as part of its "All Hands on Deck" series, with best practices for transiting waters during heavy weather. 

Good housekeeping is essential to a safe workplace onboard a vessel. The appearance of your ship and its equipment on the outside suggests how well things are operating on the inside, and more importantly contributes to the health, safety and happiness of the vessel and crew, the American Club has highlighted in a comprehensive guide.

The Britannia P&I Club has issued its latest “Crew Watch” edition, in which includes an article that presents ways seafarers can properly use social media onboard. 

The Britannia P&I Club has issued its latest edition of “Risk Watch”, in which it presents some best practices for seafarers who live with hypertension. 

A new report published on 10 September by the Diversity@Sea pilot, a Global Maritime Forum (GMF) initiative, explores ways that the industry can improve and enhance crew welfare. 

NAPA has announced the launch of NAPA Permit to Work aiming to improve crew safety and efficiency when conducting high-risk tasks onboard.

Lloyd's Register finds that the number of bridge alarms have increased by 197% in less than two decades, creating often critical alarm flooding which can lead to poor decision making.

As part of their Good Catch series, American P&I has published a safety animation to inform interested parties about the good communications which are imperative to safe operations. Make a Good Catch by ensuring that there are well understood hand signals for mooring operations to ensure against preventable injuries.

Kongsberg Gruppen has published a video with a first-hand look at life aboard the IWS Skywalker, to provide perspective on how the crew members live and work on this vessel.

According to Financial Times, leading banks are taking steps to limit financing for shipowners who neglect crew welfare, prompted by recent attacks on vessels in the Red Sea and scandals highlighting poor conditions for seafarers.