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Manning Agency Guidelines
These guidelines have been produced to help shipping companies choose reputable manning agencies and to ensure that seafarers are recruited in line with the requirements of the ILO Maritime Labour Convention 2006 (MLC, 2006).
The guidelines aim to:
- Provide clear advice to companies on what to consider when identifying a manning agency;
- Advise shipping or ship management companies which have their own internal or ‘owned’ manning agencies, on how to operate them in line with legal requirements and best practice;
- Ensure companies know how to audit manning agencies to the IMO International Safety Management Code (ISM) and the ILO MLC, 2006 requirements;
- Encourage governments to operate systems to regulate recruitment and placement services for seafarers in accordance with MLC, 2006 through licensing or alternative means;
- Advise shipowners what to do when targeted by fraudulent operators that falsely advertise using their name;
- Help shipowners ensure their relationship with their manning agencies upholds seafarers’ rights and welfare; and
- Strengthen the provisions in the MLC, 2006.
The Seafarers' Health Information Programme
Coronavirus (COVID-19)
- Coronavirus (COVID-19) Vaccination for Seafarers and Shipping Companies: A Practical Guide (March 2021)
- Coronavirus (COVID-19) - Roadmap for Vaccination of International Seafarers (May 2021)
- Coronavirus (COVID-19) Legal, Liability and Insurance Issues arising from Vaccination of Seafarers
- Coronavirus (COVID-19) - Guidance for Ship Operators for the Protection of the Health of Seafarers
- Handling a Mental Health Crisis or Emergency and Spotting Suicidal Behaviour in Seafarers
- Coronavirus (COVID-19) - Protocols to Mitigate the Risks of Cases On Board Ships
- Coronavirus (COVID-19) - Seafarer Shore Leave Principles
- Manning Agency Guidelines
- Managing your mental health during the Covid 19 pandemic
- Poster - Psychological First Aid
- Coronavirus (COVID-19) - Recommended Framework of Protocols for ensuring safe ship crew changes and travel during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic (5 October 2020)
- COVID-19 - 12-Step Guide to the IMO’s Recommended Framework of Protocols for Ensuring Safe Ship Crew Changes and Travel
- IMHA - Getting healthy seafarers to a ship (August 2020)
- Poster - Coping with stress during COVID-19
- Poster - How seafarers can help their children handle stress during COVID-19
- Best Management Practices: ICMA Guidance for Maritime Ministry During COVID-19
- ILO - Information note on maritime labour issues and coronavirus (COVID-19)
- Seafarers' Coronavirus FAQs
- Operational considerations for managing COVID-19 cases outbreak on board ships
