Peme Program News

The UK P&I Club’s Pre-Employment Medical Examination (PEME) Programme is proving extremely successful with shipowners and managers and recently completed its 250,000th seafarer examination. Garry Jose G Ramos, who first went to sea in 1997, undertook the 250,000th examination at the scheme’s accredited Angelus Medical Clinic in Makati, the leading business centre in the Philippines. An oiler employed by Döhle-Philman Manning Agency, Mr Ramos passed the examination with flying colours, as he has done on nine other occasions over the past 14 years, and is now free to continue his seagoing career with Döhle-Philman. ”Ensuring that their crews are fit and healthy should be important to any owner or manager.

promotes higher health standards among seafarers, is set to expand. considerable savings. rejected as unfit. around the world. protection & indemnity premiums stemming from crew claims. around 1,500 a month. UK. seafaring duties, an increasing number are for cruise ship functions. supplying an increasing number of people. pre-employment medicals. crews are more viable commercially. if crew members are not fit enough. crews. Accordingly, the Club has launched a new brochure to promote the program. Hungary, Ireland, Spain, Thailand and the USA. Capetown, Las Vegas, Dublin, Leeds, London, Barcelona, Budapest and Zagreb. while another clinic is under development in the Ukraine. considerable. board ship. sick wages and disability compensation. disruption to operations and time loss.

The UK P&I Club’s Pre-Employment Medical Examination (PEME) Program has entered into a franchise agreement with Maritime Medical Services of Hamilton, New Jersey. Maritime Medical Services will manage the scheme across its network of 12,000 affiliated US and Canadian physicians, arranging appointments for seafarer medical examinations directly and feeding all results into the PEME Program’s central database. The PEME Program is designed to protect shipowners from claims arising from medical conditions existing prior to employment via an examination which exceeds the standards required by many flag states. In its 10 years of operation since August 1996, more than 113,000 candidate crew have been examined worldwide.