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in their organization. Although the discrimination is not much but it is higher amongst
ratings. Almost 27% of respondent crew members from Cruise ships reported that there
is discrimination based on nationality in the company’s hiring policies.
Safety & Environment

• Almost 60% of the respondents have experienced that their organisation encourages safe
working culture even at the expense of profit, whereas the remaining respondents are not
happy with the safety culture on board.
• Roughly half the respondents hold individual human errors responsible for most accidents,
followed by 31% for unsafe work culture and around 12% for poor management on board.
Only 3% of respondents report that machinery failure is responsible for accidents on
board.
Fatigue & Stress

• Three major causes of fatigue on board are improper rest, short voyages and reduced
manning. Nearly three-fourths of senior officers are stressed during operations at ports.
Almost one-third of senior officers feel that there is a lot of scope for improving the
monitoring mechanism of fatigue of seafarers on board.

• 75% of the respondents agree that yoga/meditation exercises should be conducted as a
part of the daily routine on board for better mental health.
Motivation & Happiness

• Approximately 79% of the officers on board enjoy working on ships.

• Timely appreciation from senior officers motivates more than 40% of the ratings.

• Roughly one-third of the on board crew is unhappy due to insufficient rest while other
reasons are tough physical working conditions, lack of teamwork, improper work culture,
frustration and anger.

Women Seafarers

• Around 43% of the women seafarers responded that their choice of seafaring career cast
a strain on their family relationship, further more they were discouraged in the institute
by seniors and trainers for choosing seafaring as their profession.

• Around 57% of the women seafarers responded that they were discouraged by their
seniors or fellow seafarers for choosing seafaring as their profession and reported that
the working environment is not conducive for more women to join seafaring careers.

• Nearly 80% of the company representatives accept that the female seafarers are at par
with male seafarers. However, around 43% of women seafarers responded that Indian
male seafarers find it difficult to accept a woman in the senior position as compared to
other nationalities.

• Women seafarers expressed that they are not trained by their companies to handle sexual
advancements/harassment.

Navik Jeevan Survey 2021 VII