The shipping industry faces profound changes as it works towards ambitious Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) goals. As part of this transformation, we’re working to foster a culture of care across the industry by developing our ‘Best Practice KPI’ toolkit. These key performance indicators emphasise low-impact, cost-effective and viable measures that will help organisations track their regulatory compliance, assess the impact of their policies on seafarer health and welfare, and help them benchmark both their successes and areas of improvement.
The Toolkit
Seafarers Hospital Society has put together a toolkit for you and your organisation.
To prevent obstacles to their adoption, the KPIs have been carefully crafted to complement other commercial and regulatory regimes. Trackability and measurement are at the core of this framework, and we encourage participating organisations to use our data-driven approach in which each factor is measured according to a four-stage scale.
The Best Practice KPI Toolkit consists of a series of simple, confidential self-assessment surveys which are divided into four incremental stages. Participating organisations will work through each level as they progressively improve and embed health and well-being measures into their corporate DNA, before reaching a level of best practice in which companies go above and beyond to implement policies that prioritise health and wellbeing.
- Expected Base Level – organisations have implemented the essential requirements of the MLC
- Performance Accountability Level – organisations have advanced beyond the expected base level and have created a framework for monitoring performance against base-level requirements, using this to set priorities for action.
- Enhanced Level – Advancing beyond the performance accountability level, organisations now include all aspects of MLC that have a bearing on health and provide a framework for monitoring performance and setting priorities.
- Best Practice Level – Advancing to the final level, organisations at this stage provide scope for recording innovative health and wellbeing initiatives and evaluate their effectiveness with data and comprehensive feedback processes.
Access the surveys here
To complete the confidential survey please click the links below. We recommend that you start at Level 1 before advancing further. This will help you benchmark your organisation’s progress.
The information from the surveys is password-protected and can only be accessed by the organisation that has completed the survey.
Level 2 – Performance Accountability Level
Background
The development of this Toolkit follows a detailed scientific review by academics from Yale University, and wide-ranging discussions among industry stakeholders which identified a shift in the culture of the shipping industry as one of the key means of improving the health and well-being of today’s seafarers.
Skilled seafarers are an increasingly scarce resource, and the ability to attract, develop and retain a stable, well-motivated and valued crew will be crucial to the future safety and efficiency of the shipping industry. As shipping’s decarbonisation continues, and vessels become increasingly complex, it is more important than ever that shipping companies offer their crew members secure and fulfilling roles in which the health and well-being of seafarers are prioritised.
Purpose
The SHS Best Practice Toolkit has been developed to help foster a culture of care in the maritime sector. In order to assist this process we developed a formal framework and criteria to complement other commercial and regulatory requirements. We have provide a stepwise approach for organisations to self-assess and implement their own quality improvement.
Who will see my data?
The data is confidential and will only be analysed by the organisation that has completed the survey. The information is password protected to safeguard this. If you need assistance or would like more information contact [email protected]
Access the surveys here
To complete the confidential survey please click into the links below for the required level.
Level 2 – Performance Accountability Level
More information of the Yale Report and Consultation Paper can be found here.