Seafarers Health Guidelines

Best Practice Health KPIs

Level 4 - Best Practice Level

Self-Assessment / Gap Analysis

4. Level 4 - Best Practice level

At Best Practice Level maritime organisations will have completed Levels 1-3. The maritime organisation will be actively safeguarding and promoting the health of seafarers and be committed to:
 
Active corporate policies to safeguard and promote health that are implemented companywide. These will be over and above legal duties and guidelines, for instance:
 
  • Facilities in ship’s hospital for video conferencing with state or privately provided TMAS.
  • Direct access by seafarers to confidential telemedical advice.
    Health insurance for crewmembers (and families)
  • Medical/psychological counselling on health improvement
  • Active rehabilitation programmes to return ill or injured seafarers to work
  • In house or external access to professionally qualified sources of maritime health expertise providing both clinical and preventative policy advice on employee health on a regular basis.
  • Audit of provisions and outputs/outcomes in consultation with seafarer representatives
     
 
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. 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 'Best Practice' criteria are being used across the industry. Your information will be kept confidential and your data will be anonymised.
 
 
Expected Best Practice level KPIs:
1.We have facilities in ship's hospital for video conferencing with state or privately provided TMAS(Required.)
2.We provide direct access to confidential telemedical advice for our seafarers(Required.)
3.We have up to date audited data available on the provision of health insurance for our crew members(Required.)
4.We have up to date audited data available on the provision of health insurance for crew family members(Required.)
5.We provide access for crew to psychological counselling and on health improvement(Required.)
6.We run active rehabilitation programmes to return ill or injured seafarers to work(Required.)
7.We provide access to professionally qualified sources of maritime health expertise providing both clinical and preventative policy advice on employee health on a regular basis(Required.)
8.We conduct a regular organisational audit of services and outcomes in consultation with seafarers representatives(Required.)