Fitness Examination of Seafarers

Medical examinations for seafarers are one of the few medical examinations that allow you to work in any position in the maritime sector, in any country in the world, regardless of your nationality, the flag your boat sails under, the country of the owner or the country in which the company is registered. In such an international system and legislation, with the applicable international law, as well as the laws of the flag under which the boat is sailing and the laws of the country issuing you the certificate of fitness for work, which are not compatible in certain details, it is sometimes not easy to comply with everything that makes the assessment of seafarers’ fitness for work and the certificate of fitness for work valid. The essence of the examination of seafarers should be an assessment of whether a seafarer is capable of performing his or her work for a period of two years without endangering himself or herself, the ship or the crew, and whether he or she is capable of responding to the requirements of sudden strain in the event of an accident at sea. The certificate that the seafarer receives means just that and is not a “bill of health”. In a system where the interests of shipowners, states, insurers and agents are intertwined, and each can impose its own conditions that the seafarer must meet, it is important that the seafarer is properly assessed and that the process of clinical decision making is correct.

Maritime Clinics approved for merchant marine and cruise industry

All national maritime authorities are publishing a list of approved medical providers on their official web pages.

Medical Centre for Occupational Health Rijeka

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Medical Centre for Occupational Health Rijeka

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International Medical Guide for Seafarers and Fisheries

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ILO IMO Guidelines on the medical examinations of seafarers (PDF)

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