Fitter crews and fewer claims

The UK P&I Club’s Pre-Employment Medical Examination (PEME) Programme has recently completed its 300,000th examination. At the beginning of April, Edward Nefuda, a Second Engineer from Anglo-Eastern Crew Management Phils, Inc, was successfully passed fit at the Halcyon Clinic in Makati, Philippines. For the past 18 years, the PEME programme has provided crew with a first rate health check before going to sea while protecting ship owners from claims arising from medical conditions existing prior to employment. It is the leading loss prevention initiative managed by the UK P&I Club, which said it had long proved itself by reducing the volume and level of claims, saving huge sums for ship owners and P&I insurers.