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Seafarers Health Guidelines

Best Practice Health KPIs

Level 1 - Expected Level 

Self-Assessment / Gap Analysis

1. Level 1 - Expected Level

 
SHIPOWNER/SHIP OPERATOR COMMITMENT
A Culture of Care is important to us
 
At Expected Level, the maritime organisation follows the essential requirements of the MLC and is committed to:
 
Audited compliance with the following MLC regulations and associated codes as expressed in legal instruments of the relevant flag state.
 
These give the essential inputs specific to seafarer health care:
 
  • 1.2  medical certificates
  • 1.3 training and qualifications (STCW requirements for first aid and medical care training)
  • 2.5 repatriation (for medical reasons)
  • 3.1 accommodation (provision of specified hospital facilities)
  • 3.2 food and catering (provision of healthy diet options, especially low-calorie choices for overweight crewmembers)
  • 4.1 medical care onboard and ashore (all aspects)
  • 4.3 health and safety protection (all aspects)
When applying these guidelines, it is essential that the confidentiality of all medical and personal information is safeguarded. In addition, improvements in health on board should not be achieved by discrimination in recruitment, except where this can be related to the need ‘to ensure that seafarers are medically fit to perform the duties that they are to carry out at sea.’(MLC A1.2.1).
 
Self-Assessment Instructions
 
a) Fill in the following fields by selecting one of the following status levels according to the extent the Company meets the relevant Best practice / KPI requirements:
  • Achieved
  • Partially Achieved - to be achieved in the short-term next 6 months
  • Not Achieved - to be achieved in the long-term beyond next year
  • Aiming to tackle in the long-term within 5 years
  • No plans to implement this
b) Provide supporting evidence for the status: related healthcare / attachments (e.g. sections, paragraphs, policies, forms, KPIs, etc.). We are grateful to receive as much detail as you can provide here. We do not need to see any forms that have already been filled in. Blank forms will suffice. The purpose of gathering this information is to build up a picture of what is 'Best Practice' criteria are being used across the industry. Your information will be kept confidential and your data will by anonymised.
 
Expected Level KPIs:
1.We have management systems in place for the provision and administration of medical certificates(Required.)
2.We have management systems in place to monitor required training qualifications [STCW requirements for first aid and medical training](Required.)
3.We have management systems in place for medical repatriations(Required.)
4.We have management systems in place for the provision of specified hospital facilities onboard(Required.)
5.We have management systems in place to meet food and catering requirements through the provision of healthy diet options(Required.)
6.We have management systems in place to meet medical care onboard and ashore(Required.)
7.We have management systems in place to meet health and safety protection requirements(Required.)
8.We assess documentation of health and safety risks onboard(Required.)
9.We have up to date audited data of defined procedures for risk management(Required.)