Tag: maritime health

IMO Guidelines on the Medical Examination of Seafarers

Nautilus International backs call to improve health and safety legislation for seafarers

Ships Medical Chest - Incorrectly Supplied and Mislabeled Medicines

Seafarer fitness fears

Nautilus Survey on food standards deteriorating for crew

Each unit will have a psychologist, psychiatrist and counsellors to assist hostage seafarers A special trauma management care unit (TMU) for seafarers and their families, affected by Somali piracy, will be established by city-based organisations - the Company of Master Mariners of India (CMMI, Pune Chapter), the Institute of Marine Engineers and the Indian Maritime Foundation. The TMU will initially be a mobile unit in Pune city. Later, it would be extended to New Delhi, Chennai and Kolkata.Each unit will have a psychologist, psychiatrist and counsellors to assist hostage seafarers and their families handle mental and emotional trauma. Although there are no fresh cases of piracy affecting seafarers in Pune currently, this will be a mobile trauma unit and the team will go wherever required. Speaking on this initiative, Capt Sudhir Subhedar, chairman, CMMI, Pune chapter, said a proper process has been established to counsel seafarers during crisis situations.Counselling will be done by a team of psychologists and counsellors with the help of volunteers from the maritime fraternity. This will include counselling provided during the captivity of the seafarers, when the team will meet the family.Counselling will also be given on the release of the seafarers, teaching the family about ...

The study will examine the predictors of injury and acute illness in seamen Future Care, Inc. announced the commencement of a pilot study of the health of seafarers around the world, in collaboration with the Yale Occupational and Environmental Medicine Program.Using Future Care's unique experience as internationally recognized managed care specialists for seafarers and its extensive database drawn from its Caring for the Crew program, the study will focus on injury and acute illness in seamen, a unique group for which there is little available health information.Seafarers around the world suffer from both minor ailments and life-threatening emergencies, frequently while in the middle of the ocean, far from any health care facilities and medical professionals. Greater understanding of the factors that predict these injuries and illnesses should enable both increased prevention and better treatment of health issues on board.Dr. Carrie Redlich, MD, MPH, Professor of Medicine, Occupational Health, Environmental Medicine, and Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, said, "A better understanding of seafarers illnesses and injuries should lead to improved preventive and therapeutic treatment for this unique group of workers, and to substantial cost savings within the industry, similar to the benefits yielded from similar approaches in other industries."Christina Desimone, CEO ...

Future Care, Inc. in collaboration with the Yale Occupational and Environmental Medicine Program Future Care, Inc. announced the commencement of a pilot study of the health of seafarers around the world, in collaboration with the Yale Occupational and Environmental Medicine Program.Using Future Care's unique experience as internationally recognized managed care specialists for seafarers and its extensive database drawn from its Caring for the Crew program, the study will focus on injury and acute illness in seamen, a unique group for which there is little available health information.Seafarers around the world suffer from both minor ailments and life-threatening emergencies, frequently while in the middle of the ocean, far from any health care facilities and medical professionals. Greater understanding of the factors that predict these injuries and illnesses should enable both increased prevention and better treatment of health issues on board.Dr. Carrie Redlich, MD, MPH, Professor of Medicine, Occupational Health, Environmental Medicine, and Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, said, "A better understanding of seafarers illnesses and injuries should lead to improved preventive and therapeutic treatment for this unique group of workers, and to substantial cost savings within the industry, similar to the benefits yielded from similar approaches in other industries."Christina Desimone, CEO ...

Fatal accident rates are 12 times higher for merchant seafarers -Seafarers' Health Care 2011 report An expert report has recommended new approaches to help provide priority access to NHS care for working seafarers.Nautilus has welcomed a report by the Institute of Occupational Medicine (IOM) recommending new strategies to steer UK working seafarers towards priority access to NHS health care when ill or injured.The wide-ranging Seafarers' Health Care 2011 report was commissioned by the Seamen's Hospital Society (SHS) and funded by the Maritime Charities Funding Group(MCFG).Analysis was drawn from questionnaire surveys of working age seafarers and Dreadnought Medical Service patients, focus groups with seafarers, and interviews with Dreadnought doctors, as well as reviews of existing data -- including Maritime & Coastguard Agency (MCA) medical examinations and available literature.The report found seafarers to be affected by a variety of health conditions -- most notably work-related accidents and injuries, with fatal accident rates 12 times higher for merchant seafarers and 115 times higher for fishermen than for the general working population.Nautilus senior national secretary Allan Graveson said the Union welcomed the recognition of the need for improved medical assistance for seafarers across the whole of the UK. 'Seafarers need a service that meets ...

The good health of the seafarer is vital to the safe and efficient operation of the ship Health Watch is a new Britannia publication aimed directly at the seafarer to give guidance on health issues. The good health of the seafarer is vital to the safe and efficient operation of the ship.Seafarers now spend more time at sea than they did 10 years ago, with plentiful food and reduced exercise. This has resulted in increasing problems of obesity, diabetes and arterial disease. Obesity is closely related to the higher incidence of heart disease and the two problems have to be considered together."A healthy crew will not only result in fewer crew illness claims, but will also help to reduce the number of other claims caused by crew fatigue and lack of concentration" said Grantley Berkeley, Chairman of Tindall Riley (Britannia) Limited. In future issues of Health Watch we will deal in greater detail with such topics as diet and exercise, stress and other "lifestyle" diseases.Our aim is not to scare seafarers but to make them aware that relatively small changes to their way of living can have a significant impact on their health. Health Watch is the first publication of ...