wellness onboard

Dental hygiene while at sea: How to relieve tooth pain

Toothaches can cause such an intense pain that no one is easy to withstand for long time. Especially for seafarers on duty, severe toothache is difficult to be treated with the medication means included in the ship’s medical chest. Considering that prevention is better than cure, a proper dental and oral hygiene while at sea is essential since an aching tooth may be the start for more serious issues, including abscesses, gum disease, and tooth loss. What is more, dental and oral health is an...

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Understanding Fatigue: Don’t let stress run your life

While it’s healthy to have some stress in our life, too much can be detrimental to our well-being. Stress is actually our body’s automatic reaction to threat and is essential for survival. It makes its appearance when someone feels overwhelmed and unable to cope with a situation. However, these feelings can result in reduced work performance and health problems.

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Sustainable safety culture: How to make it, not fake it

During the 2019 SAFETY4SEA Athens Forum, Dr. Maria Progoulaki, Regional Representative and Senior Consultant, Green-Jakobsen A/S discusses the process of change that takes place within an organization through a sequence of steps aiming to install a strong safety culture for the personnel onboard and ashore.

The experience of Green-Jakobsen in measuring, building and driving safety performance stems from working for numerous shipping companies, which consider us partners in their efforts to...

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Addressing harassment in the workplace

Bullying and harassment, including sexual harassment, is an abuse of human rights and a key area of concern for the working environment, especially onboard ships where there is limited alternative for someone to avoid it. This aspect of abuse is particularly important for women, as it is considered one of the reasons keeping them away from a shipping career.

Amid a growing awareness of the importance of psychological wellbeing in the workplace, the ILO adopted a new Convention and accompanying...

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Keeping galley hygiene onboard: a key defense against seaborne diseases

Galley hygiene and well organized catering facilities are vital for the welfare of all crew members onboard and therefore, it is important all standards of housekeeping and hygiene, particularly in food storage and preparation, to be followed with consistency.

In this regard, ship operators need to establish an inspection routine in order to ensure effective compliance with all related standards. Namely, a responsible Officer shall undertake quarterly inspection of the galley and record the...

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Speaking about fraud in healthcare and its relation to shipping

Speaking about fraud in healthcare, first of all let us set the grounds: what is fraud in international healthcare and how does it relate to Maritime industry? Elena Donina Glukhman, Project Manager of AP Companies Global Solutions, provides her insight into this matter, which according to National Health Care Anti-Fraud Association, it is: False or misleading information, provided to a health insurance company or the employer in an attempt to have them pay unauthorized benefits to the...

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Understanding Fatigue: How to avoid jet lag

Our body has its own internal clock, or circadian rhythms, that signals when to stay awake and when to sleep but when we have long flights where we cross several time zones, this clock finds it difficult to sync. In this case, our body clock functions in accordance with the original time zone, instead of the time zone where we travelled. As a result, travellers are affected by jet lag that can cause daytime fatigue, an unwell feeling, difficulty in staying alert as well as gastrointestinal...

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Understanding Fatigue: Why time awake needs control

Missing a night of sleep isn’t uncommon but does affect you. How long an individual is awake affects sleepiness and consequently fatigue levels. The longer an individual has been awake, the poorer his/her performance.

Sleep is regulated by two body systems: sleep/wake homeostasis and the circadian biological clock. After a number of hours awake, alertness and performance levels begin to decrease, with long duty periods associated with higher levels of fatigue than shorter duty periods due to...

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Mental health and seafarers: It’s time to talk

In the first Gard Insights series, Kunal Pathak, Loss Prevention Manager, Asia, Singapore covers the topic of mental health of seafarers, discusses what can be done to break the taboo surrounding mental illness.

Seafarers live and work under more challenging conditions than most of us. They are exposed to an environment that stays with them 24/7 for the duration of their tenure on board the vessel. This Insight addresses some of the key issues that affect their mental health every day of their...

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