A MAJOR provider of global high-speed Internet, television and voice services via satellite to mobile users at sea or on land, KVH, is offering Videotel's new video about Ebola safety free to all mariners, in an effort to increase awareness of preventative measures against the virus.
KVH has created a website, www.kvh.com/ebolasafety, for mariners to download the free video and an accompanying workbook. Vessels subscribing to KVH's IP-MobileCast service will also automatically receive the video for onboard viewing.
"The Ebola epidemic is a crisis of worldwide proportions and one where commercial ships and seafarers are at risk given the global nature of their jobs," said KVH chief executive Martin Kits van Heyningen.
"Distributing the free video by digital means enables us to get the information to all mariners quickly, especially seafarers who may be in or near a port in the affected region, where it is unsafe to go ashore."
The 15-minute training programme, entitled "Ebola - Staying Safe" is produced by Videotel, a KVH company, in association with Steamship Mutual P&I Club and a panel of medical and subject matter experts.
The video, which includes footage from West Africa and was produced in the last eight weeks to ensure it includes recent information, explains what Ebola is, what its symptoms are, and how the virus spreads.
It outlines the ways in which crew members can protect themselves, and also what steps masters, ship owners and shipmanagers can take to keep crew members safe from harm.
Videotel is providing the video free as part of the regular updates for its training programme subscribers on 11,000 vessels, while members of Crewtoo, KVH's' online seafarer network, will also be informed of the programme's availability via social media.
Seafarer agencies, including the International Seafarers' Welfare and Assistance Network (ISWAN), will additionally promote the video at 450 seafarer centres around the world.
Meanwhile, GAC Group has urged shipping and logistics companies to invest in staff and crew education on how to lower the risk of exposure to Ebola, and to keep up-to-date with precautionary measures being used worldwide to halt the virus' spread and minimise its impact on global transport.
The Ebola epidemic has affected multiple countries in West Africa, particularly Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone. While some isolated cases had been reported in Nigeria, the country has now been officially declared Ebola-free, and has been praised for its handling of a potential outbreak.
WORLD SHIPPING
18 November 2014 - 21:47
Free Ebola training video for seafarers as preventative measure
A MAJOR provider of global high-speed Internet, television and voice services via satellite to mobile users at sea or on land, KVH, is offering Videotel's new video about Ebola safety free to all mariners, in an effort to increase awareness of preventative measures against the virus.
WORLD SHIPPING
18 November 2014 - 21:47
Free Ebola training video for seafarers as preventative measure
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