「海上心灵关怀」：国际运输工人联盟（ITF）海员心理健康活动走向全球
‘Mind At Sea’: ITF campaign to protect seafarers’ mental health goes global
在世界精神卫生日之际，国际运输工人联盟（ITF）发起了一项名为「海上心灵关怀」（Mind At Sea）的活动，旨在将健康关怀融入登船探访，并呼吁加强对海员及其家人的保护。
On World Mental Health Day, the ITF launches a campaign to bring wellbeing conversations into ship visits and press for stronger protections for seafarers and their families.
国际运输工人联盟（ITF）发起的一项全球性的心理健康和自杀预防活动，旨在帮助海员获得适切支援，并将健康关怀纳入常规的船舶探访环节中。
The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) is launching Mind At Sea, a global mental health and suicide prevention campaign to help seafarers access support and make their wellbeing a routine part of ship visits.
该活动将于10月10日世界精神卫生日在澳大利亚悉尼启动，其主题为「感到不好的时候也没关系」(‘It’s ok not to be ok’)，并将持续到12月初，覆盖多个大洲的多个国家。
Launching on 10 October – World Mental Health Day – in Sydney, Australia, the campaign carries the message ‘It’s ok not to be ok’ and will run across multiple countries on different continents until early December.
ITF健康项目协调员Asif Altaf博士表示；「海上生活给海员带来巨大压力，但太多人仍然觉得必须独自承受。我们希望每一位海员都知道，感到状态不好也正常的，并且知道在哪里可以寻求帮助。」。
“Life at sea can put enormous strain on seafarers, and too many still feel they have to keep that to themselves. We want every seafarer to know that it’s ok not to be ok, and to know where they can turn for help,” said Dr Asif Altaf, the ITF’s Wellbeing Programme Coordinator.
「我们遍布全球的船舶检查员和工会网络，一直与海员就他们的薪酬和工作条件有效沟通。『海上心理健康』活动将有助于把心理健康纳入这些对话中，以便我们能够识别出哪些海员正面临困境，并为他们提供所需的帮助。
“Our global network of ship inspectors and unions already talk to seafarers about their pay and working conditions. Mind At Sea will help make talking about mental health part of those conversations, so we can recognise when someone is struggling and connect them with the support they need.”
ITF计划每年进行这项活动，其长期目标是将心理健康和福祉纳入所有ITF检查员的例行船舶检查中。初期活动将聚焦在各大洲的特定国家。
The ITF plans to run the campaign annually, with the longer-term aim of including mental health and wellbeing in routine ship visits by all ITF inspectors. Initial activities will focus on selected countries across continents.
这项活动将支持ITF的长期目标，即在其所有集体谈判协议中将自杀纳入死亡赔偿条款。此前，印度航运总局在2025年4月的ITF活动上承诺，根据新旧协议，确保所有在印度籍船舶上发生的死亡事件（包括自杀）都能获得赔偿。
The campaign will support the ITF’s longer-term goal of including suicide in death compensation provisions in all its collective bargaining agreements. It follows a commitment made by India’s Directorate General of Shipping at an ITF event in April 2025 to ensure compensation for all deaths on board Indian-flagged ships, including suicide, under new and existing agreements.
长期远离家人、孤独、疲劳和繁重的工作条件都会影响海员的身心健康。耶鲁大学2019年的一项研究（由国际运输工人联盟海员信托基金资助）调查了1572名海员，发现25%的受访者得分显示有忧郁症状，甚至有20%受访者表示，在过去两周内曾有过「不如死了算」或「伤害自己」的想法。
Long periods away from family, isolation, fatigue and demanding working conditions can all affect seafarers’ wellbeing. A 2019 study by Yale University, funded by the ITF Seafarers’ Trust, surveyed 1,572 seafarers and found that 25% had scores suggesting depression. Twenty per cent reported thoughts of being better off dead or of hurting themselves during the preceding two weeks.
在参与活动的船舶探访期间，鼓励检查员与海员进行约10-15分钟的非正式健康讨论，内容涵盖压力、疲劳、睡眠和孤独等问题，以及如何获得帮助。他们将分发宣传资料，并推广ITF海员应用程式、心理健康热线和福利服务。
During participating ship visits, inspectors will be encouraged to hold informal wellbeing discussions of around 10–15 minutes, covering issues such as stress, fatigue, sleep and isolation, and where to get help. They will share campaign materials and promote the ITF Seafarers’ App, mental health helplines and welfare services.
该活动围绕着反思、识别、回应和联系这四个行动展开，旨在鼓励坦诚对话，帮助海员识别自己或同事何时可能需要帮助。各ITF属会也将被鼓励发展同侪支持，并与海员家属分享资源。
Built around four actions — reflect, recognise, respond and reach out — the campaign will encourage open conversations and help seafarers recognise when they or a colleague may need support. ITF-affiliated unions will also be encouraged to develop peer support and share resources with seafarers’ families.
ITF海事协调员Jacqueline Smith表示：「海员的心理健康是工作场所健康与安全问题，并须视为一个重要议题来看待。充足的休息、免受欺凌的保护以及获得专业帮助的途径，对于健康的工作场所至关重要。
ITF Maritime Coordinator Jacqueline Smith said: “Seafarers’ mental health is a workplace health and safety issue, and it must be treated as one. Adequate rest, protection from bullying and access to professional help are essential to a healthy workplace.
「船东和各国政府必须采取更多措施来保护海员免受心理健康问题的困扰。因自杀而失去亲人的家庭理应获得支持和经济保障——我们希望看到自杀死亡赔偿条款被纳入所有集体谈判协议中。挪威海员联盟的邮轮协议中已经包含了这项条款，但现在它应成为所有协议的通用标准。」
“Shipowners and governments must do much more to protect seafarers from mental ill-health. Families who lose a loved one to suicide deserve support and financial protection – and we want to see death compensation for suicide included in all our collective bargaining agreements. This has been done in the Norwegian Seafarers’ Union’s cruise agreements, but it now needs to be the standard for all agreements, everywhere.”
近年来， ITF达成了一系列协议，旨在扩大其在运输工人心理健康领域的开创性工作，包括与印度、印尼和菲律宾政府以及印尼国家航运公司（Pertamina International Shipping）建立合作关系——这些合作涵盖心理健康培训以及为海员、码头工人、民航和铁路工人开发支援服务。 ITF及其全球附属海员工会也努力确保将自杀纳入死亡赔偿范围，纳入集体谈判协议中。
The ITF has struck a series of agreements in recent years to expand its pioneering mental health work with transport workers, including partnerships with the governments of India, Indonesia and the Philippines, and with Pertamina International Shipping – these cover mental health training and the development of support services for seafarers, dock workers, civil aviation and rail workers. The ITF and its affiliated seafarer unions worldwide are also working to ensure the inclusion coverage of suicide as death compensation in bargaining agreements.
海员及其家属可透过ITF健康指南取得可用支援服务的资讯。
Seafarers and their families can find information about available support services through the ITF Wellbeing Directory.
