FORUM: "Your top tips for safety at sea." International Day of the Seafarer 2024. This year, we focus on seafarers' contribution in making the maritime sector a safer workplace. To engage seafarers, we want them to share the best safety tips at sea, whether it’s the gear they wear or the training they receive. As part of the campaign, we will highlight how they keep their workplace safe. Grateful for all the amazing support on this celebration. Your participation makes a huge difference. Follow the conversations with the hashtags:#SafetyTipsAtSea, #Dayoftheseafarer, #25june.
The Day of the Seafarer is a time to celebrate and recognize the two million people around the world who operate the ships that carry more than 80% of the volume of world trade. Seafarers are vital in ensuring a seamless flow of essential goods that eventually make it into markets, homes, and onto our tables. Without them, the world would not be able to transport the large quantities of commodities that societies require to survive. But their own lives have been put on the line in the face of grave threats. Attacks on international shipping routes and acts of piracy are unacceptable. Ships and seafarers must not be held hostage and hijacked. Seafarers should not be collateral victims in wider geopolitical conflicts. Seafarers from across the globe provide a vital source of income to their families back home, while on long voyages at sea. Let us together salute them for their essential work and support their safety.
United Nations Secretary-General.
• MV True Confidence – Three lives lost
• MV Tutor – One life lost
CAMPAIGN: Safety Tips at Sea.
Seafarers spend a great deal of their time on board ships, and this provides many opportunities for them to take pictures of their working environment. To all the seafarers, we are asking you to:
How to get involved:
Seafarers spend a great deal of their time on board ships, and this provides many opportunities for them to take pictures of their working environment. To all the seafarers, we are asking you to:
- Share a picture of yourself in your working environment with your top tip for safety at sea with the hashtag #SafetyTipsAtSea.
- Be creative, you can share the equipment you use to keep your workplace safe or any special training you received, and tell us how you work to enhance maritime safety and security, in tandem with the protection of the marine environment. Let us know how you keep up with the pace of technological change and innovation to stay safe onboard.
- Seafarer organizations – share pictures of how your help seafarers stay safe;
- Wider public – show your appreciation for the work of seafarers and how their safety at sea is in the interest of all us.
Read press release: Day of the Seafarer spotlights safety at sea.
More about Day of the Seafarer.
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