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Wellbeing at Sea

Support for life at sea.

Maritime-specific guidance, practical next steps and trusted support — designed to be simple when your head is already full.

Built for seafarers Private by design Practical, not clinical

Immediate danger?

Use the vessel or company emergency and medical procedures now. Alert the Master or responsible officer and seek professional or emergency help. Do not rely on MusterDeck in an emergency.

No questionnaire. No mood score. No diagnosis. No manager mental-health profile.

About this resource

MusterDeck provides awareness and signposting only. It does not ask for mood scores, diagnose mental-health conditions, provide treatment, assess fitness for duty, provide crisis counselling, or create a manager dashboard of individual mental-health status.

For Masters and senior officers

• Make fatigue, welfare and personal-support concerns safe to raise without ridicule or retaliation.
• Listen and refer; do not try to diagnose a crewmember or become their counsellor.
• Share sensitive information only where there is a genuine safety, medical or need-to-know reason.
• Consider workload, watch patterns, conflict, isolation and onboard culture when a person is struggling.
• Know the company medical, telemedical, EAP/welfare and emergency escalation routes before they are needed.

For companies, crewing and HSEQ teams

• Provide clear confidential routes to medical, occupational-health, EAP and independent welfare support.
• Train leaders in mental-health awareness, supportive conversations, fatigue culture, bullying/harassment prevention and referral boundaries.
• Review workload, manning, rest opportunity, connectivity, recreation, shore leave and social inclusion as organisational factors.
• Keep health information strictly minimised, access-controlled and separate from ordinary performance management.
• Treat awareness material as supplementary to mandatory training, formal safeguarding, investigation and flag-State/company procedures.

Sources

Content reviewed 29 September 2026. Company procedures, flag-State requirements and the latest official source remain authoritative.

MCA — Wellbeing at Sea framework MCA — Wellbeing at Sea Publications IMO — Guidelines on fatigue ICS / ISWAN — Mentally Healthy Ships ICS — Mental health crisis or emergency guidance ISWAN — SeafarerHelp ISWAN — Social Interaction Matters MCA — 2026 PSSR violence and harassment amendment MNWB — Seafarer Support ICO — Workers’ health information

General maritime wellbeing awareness and signposting only. MusterDeck is not a healthcare provider, counselling service or emergency service.