Other psychosocial risk factors such as inadequate
support at work from managers and colleagues and career concerns
also help shape the experience of stress at work but conditions
associated with the physical working environment rather suggest
a potential for injury or accidents at work.
making extra work demands on seafarers’ time without providing
adequate resources for the purpose. In answering this paper’s central
question – how environmental compliance affects seafarers –
four broad findings emerge from the analysis. First, the paper has
confirmed that the potential for job stress is often present at sea
and that environmental compliance may be a contributing factor.
Notwithstanding, corporate environmental compliance strategies
and the guidance for specific related job activities do not give sufficient
importance to personal safety and well-being considerations
for workers fulfilling the tasks. This low level of support
means that safe working practices are not being articulated clearly
enough in communicating the performance of environmental
compliance.