Tag: mental health

2022 marks a significant year for workplace wellbeing with the World Health Organization officially recognizing burnout as an occupational phenomenon. A shipping career, either onboard or in an office, can be demanding, with heavy workload and unexpected situations. How sure are you that you are taking care of yourself?

During the 105th session of the IMO Maritime Safety Committee, members agreed to the establishment of an IMO/ILO joint group to consider bullying and harassment in the maritime sector, including sexual assault and sexual harassment.

Columbia Shipmanagement (CSM) raised €1.4 million and assembled a team of 320 psychologists, mostly from Ukraine, to help traumatised families of seafarers who have been impacted by the war in Ukraine.

Imagine being unable to derive any satisfaction from every occupation that used to give you pleasure or even worse, from your more trusted relationships.

Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is currently the treatment of choice for most anxiety disorders. Yet, with recovery rates of approximately 50%, many patients fail to achieve complete remission. This has led to increased efforts to enhance treatment efficacy. Physical exercise (PE) has in recent years been advocated as means to augment the effects of CBT for anxiety disorders.

"Mission to Seafarers" in an effort to support men and women working at sea provides useful guidelines on how to manage distressing events while on board.

What is the end goal of life? “Happiness” Captain Obvious may say and indeed, the idea of feeling constantly happy sounds great. However, science has come to question again what can be characterized as “common knowledge”, by proving that feeling a variety of emotions is much more beneficial than feeling only positive emotions.

CHIRP provides lessons learned from serious mental health issues due to fatigue and high levels of stress concerning a chief officer who was working on an LPG vessel.

Two years into the pandemic have brought unexpected psychological repercussions for most people, creating a bigger awareness on mental health. Fear for the disease, fear for our loved ones, isolation and the feeling of unknown are only a few triggers with a huge impact on people’s psychological state, making them realize that mental health issues affect and concern everyone.

The IMO Sub-Committee on Human Element, Training and Watchkeeping considered a proposal to prioritize the revision of the IMO model course 1.21 on Personal Safety and Social Responsibilities, with a view to including specific content to establish appropriate maritime workplace behavioural norms and essential human elements of psychological safety.