All content tagged with: "health and safety"
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20 Sep 2020
Press Release
Covid corner-cutting will lead to deaths, ‘environmental catastrophe’ – new shipping report
The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) has issued a stark warning that if temporary short cuts adopted in the industry during the Covid-19 pandemic...
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21 May 2020
Canadian dockers honour lost second officer of Maersk Patras
This week marks a year since Ravindu Telge, 2nd Officer of the Maersk Patras, fell overboard while lashing underway along the Saint Lawrence Seaway, in Quebec,...
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13 May 2020
ITF expresses sadness at the death of two more cruise ship workers as seafarers continue to remain stranded abroad
Whilst we await the outcome of the investigation it appears that the young Ukrainian seafarer took her own life in the Port of Rotterdam whilst awaiting...
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08 May 2020
Seafarers' access to long-term medications
The Covid-19 crisis has exposed the global seafaring community to numerous challenges. Maritime employers and seafarers' unions, along with many other international...
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26 Apr 2020
Respect seafarers' right to emergency medical treatment ashore
The International Labour Organization (ILO) Maritime Labour Convention 2006 (MLC) is clear – a seafarer, while working on board, has the right to adequate health...
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12 Mar 2020
Covid-19: Urgent economic stimulus and workplace measures required
The ITF and global union federations have urged governments and employers to urgently act to protect workers, and the global economy and society that depends upon...
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02 Mar 2020
COVID-19 advice to ships
New guidelines to avoid or manage an outbreak of coronavirus on board ships are now available. They include pre-boarding screenings, isolation cabins,...
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30 Jan 2020
Coronavirus update and advice
The ITF is closely following all advice from the World Health Organisation (WHO)regarding the current outbreak which originated in Wuhan city, a major domestic...
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27 Nov 2019
Mental stress levels at sea dangerously high, study finds
A wide-ranging study by Yale University – commissioned by the ITF Seafarers Trust – has found dangerously high levels of mental stress among...
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28 Oct 2019
North Sea oil platform evacuated
Staff on a North Sea oil platform have been evacuated following safety concerns. The 115 staff on the Thistle platform were picked up by British and Norwegian...