MBE honour for commitment to improving seafarer welfare
Dedication
to improving health, safety and well-being of seafarers across the world has
led to an MBE for Seafarer Safety and Health Manager Julie Carlton.
Julie,
from Romsey, Hampshire worked tirelessly to get the ground-breaking Maritime
Labour Convention (MLC) on seafarer living and working conditions into UK Law.
She
has worked with government departments, shipping companies and trade unions
alike and now chairs the international committee of governments, shipowners and
seafarer organisations which oversees implementation and ongoing improvements
to the Convention.
Julie
and her team are now finishing putting similar protection in place for
fishermen, under the Work in Fishing Convention.
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Chief
executive Brian Johnson said: ‘Julie’s work has provided regulators both in the
UK and internationally with a standard of seafarer welfare that gives them the
benchmark to take action against poor working conditions. As a direct result of
what she has done, seafarers’ lives will undoubtedly be improved.'
Julie
Carlton said: ‘It’s a great honour to have received this MBE which I believe
reflects the work of the whole of the Maritime & Coastguard Agency in
securing better conditions for seafarers to work in. Seafaring is one of the
most dangerous professions in the world and it’s vital that we do everything we
can to reduce that danger where we can.’