Seafarers Health Guidelines

Best Practice Health KPIs

Level 3 - Enhanced Level

Self-Assessment / Gap Analysis

3. Level 3 - Enhanced Level

SHIPOWNER/SHIP OPERATOR COMMITMENT
On course for a culture of care
 
At Enhanced level, a maritime organisation will have completed Levels 1 and 2. The organisation will include all aspects of MLC that have bearing on health and provide a framework for monitoring performance. The organisation will also set priorities for:
Identification of health-related consequences of other MLC regulations and codes with steps taken to enhance beneficial aspects and minimise harmful ones. Recognition by onshore and onboard management of relevance (should not be limited to officers) of active health management, such as health promotion initiatives and assistance programmes providing confidential advice on mental wellbeing. Concern for crewmembers’ lifetime health. Ensuring confidentiality of personal information, equity and minimal stress for seafarers in the course of meeting these goals.
 
MLC regulations and codes with health and wellbeing related implications:
  • 1.2 recruitment and placement
  • 2.1 employment agreements
  • 2.2 timely payment of wages (1.2)
  • 2.3 hours of work and hours of rest (active assessment of fatigue risks and actions to minimise them, including appropriate crewing levels - MLC 2.7)
  • 2.4 entitlement to leave (as 1.2)
  • 2.5 repatriation (family liaison, provision for rehabilitation and support to return to work when fit)
  • 2.6 compensation for loss and foundering (as 1.2 plus family support)
  • 2.7 manning levels (as 2.3)
  • 3.1 accommodation and recreation facilities (comfort, silence, minimal stress)
  • 4.2 shipowners' liability (full provision for consequences of injury, illness and death while in service)
 
Enhanced Level KPIs:
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
  • We will achieve this in the next 6 months
  • We will achieve this after 1 year
  • We aim to tackle within 5 years
  • No plans to implement this
b) Provide supporting evidence. Your information will be confidential.
1.We have audited compliance of health-related aspects of listed MLC regulations and codes(Required.)
2.We measure uptake of health promotion initiatives such as healthy food options, with measurable benefits such as weight reduction where feasible(Required.)
3.We collect data from programmes to reduce risks of common forms of long-term ill-health such as arterial disease, musculoskeletal pain and cancer(Required.)
4.We perform non-judgemental analyses of crew psychological wellbeing, from confidential surveys, concerns, complaints, changes to work performance, etc.(Required.)
5.We provide employee assistance services for advice on psychological wellbeing(Required.)
6.We provide access to maritime health expertise in developing initiatives and evaluating their benefit(Required.)