Safety Flash
COVID-19 update
COVID-19 update
- IMCA
- Safety Flash
- IMCA SF 11/20
- Occupational Health
- Occupational healthRespiratory hazards
- Personal protective equipment
- First aid and medical provisionSafety communication
- Marine industry
- Vessel
Summary
This safety flash outlines COVID-19 transmission and shipboard prevention and mitigation measures, including hygiene, distancing, patient isolation, protective equipment and medical consultation. It presents an illustrative fleet access policy based on travel, symptoms and exposure criteria, alongside links to international and maritime guidance available in March 2020.
Classifications: Occupational health; worker health.
Classifications: Respiratory hazards; respirable dust; inhalation hazards.
Classifications: Personal protective equipment; PPE; personal protection equipment.
Classifications: First aid and medical provision.
Classifications: Safety communication; toolbox talk; toolbox talks.
Classifications: Marine industry; shipping industry; maritime sector.
Classifications: Vessel; aboard ship; onboard vessel.
Summary
For the latest information and advice on the COVID-19 outbreak, including an overview of countries with confirmed cases and current assessments of risk, please browse to the World Health Organisation’s Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak webpage https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019.
IMCA SF 11/20. Themes: occupational health.