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Mentally Healthy Ships
Mentally Healthy Ships provides shipping companies and ship operators with information to help devise and implement mental health policies and practices to promote and protect seafarers mental health. Written by Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Dr Pennie Blackburn, this resource offers invaluable guidance on why it is vital that safety planning on board includes due consideration of mental health, as well as information on how to implement it. Employers have a critical role to play in executing their duty of care, through mitigating known risks where possible, and ensuring that systems, procedures and structures are in place to create a mentally healthy environment on board.
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