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Cleaning

Keep clean and

carry on!

WSS promotes best practice for shipboard hygiene

are simple and safe for seafarers to use. European mariners and are insufficient
Instructions and wall charts have been in providing an in-depth picture of the

designed with easy-to-follow pictograms threat to health from infection by pre-

and colour coding. To promote best existing conditions or failings in
practice still further, an e-learning shipboard hygiene standards.

programme, accessible to all In direct response to the challenges
crewmembers, supports the range.
faced by the maritime industry in

protecting health onboard ship, WSS has “Standardisation has clear
designed and developed a high quality, advantages,” said Mr Nygaard. “Buying

standardised range of galley and and using products and equipment from
accommodation cleaning products.
the same supplier globally makes

Rune Nygaard, Product Marketing consumables easily recognisable and
AManager, Marine Chemicals, manageable in terms of sourcing, use,

Wilhelmsen Ships Service, said the instruction and application and removes

industry will need support to the need for re-training every time a new
campaign on galley and understand the unique challenges of the product is brought onboard.” u

accommodation cleaning has onboard ecosystem and how to support
reflected the need to raise crews day to day.

awareness among seafarers that risks “Infectious diseases are recognised
from infection are greater than
as an occupational hazard in seafaring

from accidents.
and are closely connected to the
The focus of shipboard safety is conditions of working and living

rightly on the prevention of accidents onboard. Every vessel can be viewed as a
among seafarers, through regulation, self-contained eco-system and if

training and promotion of safety culture. inadequate cleaning is allowed to

But despite the attention given to such interfere with the natural processes
incidents, the majority of medical taking place within that eco-system, then

consultations and treatments onboard problems can occur.”
are due to medical conditions, rather The Unitor EasyClean and

than injuries.
Gamazyme products are designed to
Data on infection and illness rates provide a standardised range of cleaning

among seafarers are concentrated on
materials that are available globally and

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