U.S. Coast Guard TAC Plus is a comprehensive service program designed to manage, organize, and conduct third-party reviews of USCG 719K physical examinations for U.S. seafarers. The program partners with trusted, vetted clinics to perform required physicals and includes an addendum featuring a physical agility assessment and visual dental inspection. To enroll, please contact Danielle Centeno at [email protected]
In addition, the program offers Health Spotlight, a quarterly newsletter that provides seafarers and maritime professionals with practical guidance on wellness and safety at sea. Each issue focuses on relevant medical or lifestyle topics to help improve safety, comfort, and overall well-being while onboard.
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2025 Q1 - Sun Exposure and Dehydration
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2025 Q2 - Allergy Management
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2025 Q3 - Oral Health and Best Sleep Habits
Conserving hearing is vital to personal wellness and made possible by exercising smart noise protection practices. To raise awareness about hearing protection and best practices for seafarers, your Managers are pleased to present the following Club Loss Prevention offerings:
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Now Hear This: Noise Protection Awareness guidance available in English, new and traditional Mandarin; and
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Your Hearing Is Valuable: Protect It safety poster available for download in English.
Mental health, while often overlooked, is an important aspect of the wellbeing of crew on board a ship. Accidents or incidents resulting from a seafarer's mental breakdown will have significant consequences for the company and ship's crew. In the seagoing community, an understanding of, and engagement with, matters of mental health is vital. In addition to the adverse personal health impacts on crews, there are also financial implications for shipowners in a failure to maintain wellbeing on board ship.
It is of vital importance that seafarers have access to mental health assistance and resources if and as may be needed. The Club maintains an up to date list of these resources available to seafarers.
Furthermore, the Club maintains two mental health related guidance documents as assistance for Members and shipboard crew:
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What's on Your Mind? This guidance reviews some of the common risk factors of a developing an adverse condition of mental health, and recommend measures to prevent or treat an occurrence onboard; and
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Caring for Seafarers' Mental Wellbeing, is intended to help seafarers and others identify common psychological reactions to traumatic events and acute stress, and to assist them through early intervention techniques. The guidance can be found in English, New Mandarin, Traditional Mandarin and in Russian languages.
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Addressing and Managing Seafarer Mental Health Challenges, provides guidance to assist help seafarers and ship operators better understand the factors that contribute to mental health challenges for seafarers and what can be done to prevent and mitigate such effects on crews. The guidance can be found in English , New Mandarin and Traditional Mandarin languages.
Additional Information:
Whether indoors in machinery and engine spaces or outdoors in tropical or desert climates, seafarers should be aware of the risks of working in extreme heat. Heat-related illnesses can occur both at work and at home. People have a natural tendency to over-exert themselves to the limit to "get the job done", but this should not be at the risk of a heat-related illness.
Heat Related Illnesses: Loss Prevention and Awareness
USCG Tac Plus Newsletter -- Health Spotlight: Sun Exposure & Dehydration
Podcasts (links navigate away from American Club website):
Hot! Part 1: Heat-Related Illness Awareness & Prevention
Hot! Part 2: Heatstroke
Vessel managers can enhance wellbeing and morale onboard by implementing initiatives that include friendly competition, entertainment, or celebratory meals. Activities like these promote crew happiness, crew cohesion, and positive mental health by giving seafarers an outlet with which to wind down after a busy workday. Seafarer Wellbeing Programs is a compilation of ideas and suggestions of seafarer wellbeing programs and onboard activities that promote the happiness of the crew. Stay Well!
The American P&I Club's Mentorship and Heroic Acts Awards honor outstanding individuals or vessels that exemplify excellence through mentorship, a dedication to safety, and the protection of the marine environment. The awards also recognize Members who have performed heroic acts of rescue or lifesaving.
To request a nomination form, please email [email protected]. A flyer with a link to the nomination form will be provided in addition to deadlines for submission.
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