"If You Thought about Those Things, Your Life Would Be a Misery!" Mental Health and the Safety of Seafarers

Kirkby, D

"If You Thought about Those Things, Your Life Would Be a Misery!" Mental Health and the Safety of Seafarers

Kirkby, D

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Publisher:: Australian Society for the Study of Labour History
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Labour History: a journal of labour and social history, 2020, 119, pp. 197-208
Issue Date:: 2020-11-01

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dc.contributor.author	Kirkby, D https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3288-4819
dc.date.accessioned	2021-06-16T07:02:55Z
dc.date.available	2021-06-16T07:02:55Z
dc.date.issued	2020-11-01
dc.identifier.citation	Labour History: a journal of labour and social history, 2020, 119, pp. 197-208
dc.identifier.issn	0023-6942
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/149556
dc.description.abstract	Seafaring has long been recognised as a hazardous occupation, with the ever-present risk of disease, drowning or serious, often fatal, injuries from fires, accidents, shipwrecks or simply falling overboard. Health and safety concerns about physical dangers came to include illness from toxic substances but only recently has attention turned to the psychological hazards of shipboard living and working under conditions of isolation. A recent survey of seafarers working in the cargo shipping industry is the first sustained, methodical study to investigate the mental wellbeing of ships crews. It provides a wealth of statistical and other information from both crews and the companies employing them that, it is suggested here, is of value for further research, and an opportunity for labour historians.
dc.language	en
dc.publisher	Australian Society for the Study of Labour History
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dc.subject	1503 Business and Management, 2103 Historical Studies, 2202 History and Philosophy of Specific Fields
dc.subject.classification	History
dc.title	"If You Thought about Those Things, Your Life Would Be a Misery!" Mental Health and the Safety of Seafarers
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Abstract:

Seafaring has long been recognised as a hazardous occupation, with the ever-present risk of disease, drowning or serious, often fatal, injuries from fires, accidents, shipwrecks or simply falling overboard. Health and safety concerns about physical dangers came to include illness from toxic substances but only recently has attention turned to the psychological hazards of shipboard living and working under conditions of isolation. A recent survey of seafarers working in the cargo shipping industry is the first sustained, methodical study to investigate the mental wellbeing of ships crews. It provides a wealth of statistical and other information from both crews and the companies employing them that, it is suggested here, is of value for further research, and an opportunity for labour historians.

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