Safety tips and checklists feature on new app for seafarers
A new app for seafarers, launched by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency, is a chance for those working at sea to have safety advice, checklists and important resources at their fingertips.
The Official MCA Guidance app will provide seafarers useful, practical information on how to be safe at sea, as well as how to prepare for important parts of the job like vessel surveys and inspections.
The
app also includes resources designed to support and maintain seafarers’
physical and mental health.
Seafarers
are part of an incredible, unique industry, but this can come with periods of
hardship, pressure and prolonged isolation, sometimes with limited services. It
is an MCA priority to support seafarers at all times, in particular helping
with any challenges or health-related obstacles they may face.
The
Official MCA Guidance app is just one way we can assist seafarers – providing
an easy-to-use and informative tool that can help answer their questions while
providing basic step-by-step guidance offline even without connection to WiFi.
This
is an important first step in delivering vital safety advice right into the
hands of those who really need it, the seafarers. The app will only continue to
develop and grow over time. All that seafarers need to do is download it to
their smartphone.
Virginia McVea, Maritime and Coastguard Agency Chief Executive, said:
“It
is a priority for the MCA to ensure that we do all that we can to make the
experience of seafarers better.
“This
app and its further development will allow a closer connection and easier
access to information and assistance.”
Download
the Official MCA Guidance app for free through the Google Play or Apple iOSstores.
Feedback
is welcome - tell us what you think about the app and what you need from it, to
help the MCA and partners continue its development.
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