Tag: seafarer safety

The International Maritime Health Journal released a report focusing on seafarers' mental wellbeing and the effect of daily social media exposure on anxiety and depression disorders.

Hundreds of lives will be saved thanks to two new emergency projects being funded by the ITF Seafarers’ Trust and delivered through two Indian-based seafarers’ unions.

Sailors’ Society expanded its Wellness at Sea Awareness Campaign, in order to include crewmembers' families and shore staff.

A crew member onboard a Cuba-flagged oil tanker on its way from a Mexican shipyard to Venezuela, was reported missing, according to a shipping report seen by Reuters.

Capt. Hans Hederström, Chalmers University of Technology, Professor of the Practice, Dept. of Mechanics and Maritime Sciences, highlights that the maritime industry needs to quit perception that human is the creator of problems and focus instead on ways to empower human skills.

The Seafarers Hospital Society (SHS) and Yale University joined forces in order to conduct a study of maritime worker health initiatives. 

Seafarers' representatives and shipowners have asked the United Nations to establish an interagency task force to examine the implementation and practical application of the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 (MLC) during the Covid-19 pandemic.

CHIRP Maritime issued its fifth annual review of maritime reports, covering all the cases published during 2020 and including a number of in-depth articles specially commissioned to highlight important safety topics.

The heads of five UN organizations recently issued a joint call for seafarers and aircrew to be prioritized for COVID-19 vaccination.

Earlier this month, the International Group of P&I Clubs issued an animation video in an effort to raise awareness on how to safely enter enclosed spaces onboard ships.