Price: £115
Price: £115
Price: £115
Price: £115
A Seafarer Medical Certificate is legally required from any seafarer, including the master, who is employed or engaged in work capacity aboard a ship and whose normal place of work is on a ship, to attest for their medical fitness to perform their duties.
The medical examination and assessment is conducted in accordance with statutory medical standards set by the Secretary of State and overseen by the Maritime & Coastguard Agency (MCA).
Who needs this medical?
You need an ML5 fitness to work certificate if you’re:
• master of a non-seagoing passenger ship (Class IV or V)
• master of a commercial non-seagoing vessel
• master and crew of a small commercial vessel (under 24 metres, carrying no more than 12 passengers, going no more than 60 miles from shore)
• crew or other employee (like a steward, security guard, caterer) on a domestic seagoing passenger ship (Class VI or VI(A))
• working on a fishing vessel under 24m in length that is not subject to inspection in a foreign port, at sea for more than 72 hours or operating more than 200 miles from the coastline of the UK or beyond the continental shelf.
If you are working on a different type of vessel, you may need an ENG1 Medical Certificate.
For more information you can visit the Maritime and Coastguard Agency's website.
What is involved in this assessment?
The medical assessment takes approximately 45 minutes. The exact assessment will vary depending on your role at sea, but it will generally include measurements of your height, weight, blood pressure; visual acuity and colour vision testing; urinalysis. You will have to disclose information about any medical problems, hospital visits, and/or medication if you're taking any. Other tests that might be clinically indicated from the history will be explained. Assessments like ECG, spirometry, Chester Step test (physical fitness test) may also be required. A general physical examination will be conducted, examination of heart, lungs and neurological system; examination of abdomen including checking for hernias. It will be necessary for you to be partially undressed to conduct a full examination (down to bra and underpants for females and underpants for males).
Privacy and dignity will be of paramount importance at all times and you will be offered a chaperone.
What do I need to bring with me?
At your appointment you will be asked to present a photo ID, which must be either an original passport, driving licence, or a discharge book/seaman's card. Please note that no other forms of ID are acceptable, and neither are photocopies, scans, or other images.
Please bring your current/previous medical certificate (if you have one).
You will have to provide us with information about any medical problems, hospital visits, and/or medication you’re taking.
We have to test your vision without and then with correction. If you have vision correction, please have your glasses and/or contact lenses with you.
At your appointment, please bring the ML5 medical report form (MSF4112, available here or in our Downloads section), with the completed appropriate sections on page 1.
If you have any questions or are unsure about anything, please send an e-mail to: doctor@tridenthyperbaric.co.uk
