Medical unfitness for work at sea: causes and incidence rate over a 12-year period in France.
Brice LoddéMarie-Fleur MegardNicolas Le GoffLaurent MiseryRichard PougnetJean-Dominique DewitteDavid LucasThierry SauvagePublished in: Journal of occupational medicine and toxicology (London, England) (2021)
Permanent unfitness seldom occurs among French professional seafarers. Prevention measures must be focused on musculoskeletal disorders, psychiatric affections and coronary conditions as well as on combatting maritime accidents, especially in the professional fishing sector, where such affections and accidents are overrepresented.