Practical guidance, tools, and materials for professionals and volunteers working on seafarer welfare.
Methodological materials originally developed through years of hands-on seafarer welfare work, reviewed and adapted by IMWIRSA to align with EU law and current international maritime standards. Where Research sets out the evidence, these guides turn it into something a volunteer or coordinator can use on a ship visit.
Code of Conduct and practical guide for volunteers and coordinators: preparing for a visit, on-board communication, recognising distress, ship-type specifics, GDPR-compliant reporting, and the safeguarding escalation route.
A full training programme for preparing ship visitors: seafarers' rights under MLC-2006, cross-cultural and interreligious communication, on-board safety protocols, a dedicated safeguarding and professional-boundaries section, GDPR-aligned data protection for visitor reporting, a step-by-step crisis response protocol, and a practical part with 19 training exercises and 16 group discussion scenarios.
More practice guides will be added to this page as further field-tested materials are reviewed and adapted for IMWIRSA.