Fit for Sea Medical Program Tests 300,000th Applicant
The UK P&I Club informs that its Pre-Employment Medical Examination Programme, claimed to be the world’s leading scheme for assessing the fitness of prospective seafarers, has just completed its 300,000th examination. For the past 18 years, the PEME Programme has provided crew with a first rate health check before going to sea while protecting ship owners from claims arising from medical conditions existing prior to employment. It is the leading loss prevention initiative managed by the UK P&I Club----and the most extensive and comprehensive programme of its kind.
UK P&I Club’s PEME Program Completes 250,000 Mariners
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.
UK Club's Crew Med Program To Expand
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.
