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Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 BackgroundFatigue is an important factor for the safety of ships. In order to alleviate fatigue of the seafarers, the STCW Convention (International Convention on Standards of Training, Certification, and Watchkeeping for Seafarers) has made many ...
Ji An, Wenting Gao, Runze Liu, Ziqi Liu
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Occupational Health on Merchant Ships during COVID-19
Medical Sciences Forum, 2023 The COVID-19 pandemic burdened the working and living conditions of seafaring personnel with particular challenges. The present study investigated the health and occupational burden of 301 multinational seafarers from merchant ships using self ...
Kristina Militzer +7 more
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Developing a management framework to position South Africa as a preferred seafarer labour supplier
Journal of International Maritime Safety, Environmental Affairs, and ShippingSouth Africa’s strategic position along the Cape Shipping Route connects Asia and Europe, with over 30,000 vessels using this corridor annually. Despite the 2014 launch of Operation Phakisa’s Oceans Economy and the Comprehensive Maritime Transport Policy
Tebogo Abia Mojafi +1 more
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ILO Maritime Labour Convention 2006: the way towards ratification
Lex Portus, 2019 The article is focused on the dynamics of national procedures for accession to the International Labour Organization (ILO) 2006 Maritime Labour Convention.
Kivalov S.
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"Seabirds matter more than us!": understanding the complex exercise of CSR in the global shipping industry [PDF]
, 2016 Within the contemporary shipping industry there is the potential for open registers to act to varying degrees as “regulatory havens”. There are also well-known challenges relating to regulatory enforcement at both port-state and flag-state levels.
Sampson, Helen
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Lads in Waiting: Another 'Crisis'. An Exploratory Study on the Indian 'Fresher' Rating Seafarers
Global Labour Journal, 2010 Studies on work/labour precarity in recent decades have pointed out its close connections with neoliberal globalisation. While maritime shipping, arguably the most globalised of all contemporary industries, has always been recognised as a singularly ...
Peidong Yang
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Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2022 Seafarers are prone to reduce behavioral reliability under high workloads, resulting in human errors and accidents. To explore the changes in seafarers’ workload and physiological activities under complex task conditions, a bridge simulator experiment ...
Yue Ma, Qing Liu, Liu Yang
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Ocean and SocietySeafaring is a highly male‐dominated occupation. Within the industry, there is an ambition to increase the proportion of women working in maritime professions.
Magnus Boström
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Women Seafarers: Solution to Shortage of Competent Officers? [PDF]
TransNav, 2012 This study aimed to determine the participation of women in the seafaring profession. It also looked into the hiring practices of the different manning and shipping companies in the country.
Melchor M. Magramo, Geneva Eler
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Exposures and health effects at sea: report on the NIVA course: Maritime Occupational Medicine, Exposures and health Effects at Sea:Elsinore, Denmark, May 2014 [PDF]
, 2014 The presentations and discussions summarised provide an overview on the current state of knowledge on a wide range of occupational health risks to which seafarers are exposed.
Carter, Tim, Jepsen, Jørgen Riis
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