Department of Statistics
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28 March 2024
Dear Madam, Dear Sir,
Subject: Global register on Seafarer Deaths: Data and Metadata questionnaire
As you are aware, the Special Tripartite Committee (STC) of the Maritime Labour Convention,
2006, as amended (MLC, 2006) at its Fourth Meeting (Part II), in May 2022, adopted several
amendments to the Code of the Convention1. The amendments were consequently approved by
International Labour Conference in June 2022, and are expected to enter into force on 23
December 2024, in accordance with Article XV, paragraph 7 of the MLC, 2006.
One of the amendments to the Code requires that all deaths of seafarers employed, engaged or
working on board ships are adequately investigated and recorded, and reported on an annual
basis to the Director-General of the International Labour Office to be published in a global
register. Following the adoption of the amendments, the ILO in consultation with the Officers of
the STC and the governments who sponsored this amendment to the MLC, 2006 (Australia,
Norway, Panama, New Zealand, Kenya and France), has developed a brief questionnaire
(accessible here) that would support implementation of this amendment, and establishment of
a global register on seafarer deaths.
Although the amendment will enter into force in December 2024, it was agreed that it would be
beneficial to collect the required data on an experimental basis for 2023, so that members can
collect/or start collecting the required data to the ILO.
Completing this questionnaire will also be essential to test the understandability of concepts and
definition proposed, and identify any issues with the taxonomy used, and level of details required,
so that the questionnaire can be finalised before the date for the mandatory reporting.
It would be greatly appreciated if you could. report, in the online questionnaire, the numbers
and causes of seafarer deaths, with a clear indication of type, size and location of the ship, and
victim’s sex, age, occupational position and department. Please note that the online
questionnaire is accessible to anyone with the link to it after registration (username and
password). The e-questionnaire should be completed with reference to 2023 or the latest
available year (2022 or 2021).
1
Text of the amendments adopted on 13 May 2022 (ilo.org)
2.
Please submit the completed e-questionnaire by the 31st of July 2024 at the latest. For any
questions that you might have relating to completion of the questionnaire, please contact
Valentina Stoevska (
[email protected]), Senior Statistician at the Department of Statistics, and
Beatriz Vacotto (
[email protected]), Coordinator at the Maritim Unit.
We thank you in advance for your cooperation and we look forward to hearing from you soon.
Yours faithfully,
Rafael Diez de Medina Corinne Vargha
Chief Statistician and Director, Director, International Labour
Department of Statistics Standards Department