Compliance & Policy

Built Around International Standards

Alpha Pacific Navigation Pte Ltd, based in Fiji and established in 1992, provides Seafarer Recruitment and Placement Services (SRPS), arranging Pacific Island seafarers to serve as crew members on international commercial ships. We are committed to professional, transparent, ethical, and responsible recruitment and placement practices and to protecting the rights, health, safety, welfare, dignity, and wellbeing of our employees and seafarers.

Our management systems are aligned with ISO 9001:2015 Quality Management, ISO 45001:2018 Occupational Health & Safety Management, and ISO 14001:2015 Environmental Management, and our operations are conducted in accordance with applicable Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 (MLC 2006), STCW, IMO and MARPOL requirements, Fiji legislation, regulatory requirements, codes of practice, workplace agreements, and other applicable international standards.

Fiji SRPS MLC Authorisation: ERA/EREAR 001/2008
Date of Issue: 9 August 2024
Expiry Date: 9 November 2026 (Temporary Extension)
Fiji Competent Authority: Ministry of Employment, Productivity & Workplace Relations

Our recruitment and placement processes include appropriate verification of seafarer qualifications, certificates, professional documentation, medical fitness, competency, employment records and Seafarers' Employment Agreements, together with clear information regarding employment terms and conditions, shipowner and employer arrangements, complaints and grievance procedures, repatriation arrangements, financial protections, and confidentiality of personal information. Alpha Pacific Navigation Pte Ltd does not charge seafarers recruitment or placement fees for obtaining employment onboard ships.

We are committed to providing a safe and healthy workplace and promoting fitness for duty, including appropriate management of drugs and alcohol, fatigue, occupational health and safety risks, medical fitness, and work-related hazards. We maintain a no-blame reporting culture and encourage employees, seafarers, contractors, and other stakeholders to report hazards, incidents, near misses, fatigue, environmental concerns, bullying, harassment, unethical conduct, or other safety and welfare concerns. Incidents and concerns are investigated and appropriate corrective and preventative actions implemented.

We maintain zero tolerance for bullying, harassment, discrimination, victimisation, illegal drugs, forced labour, human trafficking, modern slavery, child labour, and exploitative or unethical recruitment practices. We respect human rights and are committed to fair and reasonable employment conditions, ethical recruitment, protection from exploitation, and the principles of applicable ILO standards, including those relating to HIV and AIDS, non-discrimination, confidentiality, prevention, care, and support. We recognise that HIV status must not be a basis for discrimination and that personal and medical information must remain confidential.

We are committed to protecting the environment, preventing pollution, and minimising the impacts of our operations on land, water, air, flora, fauna, and the marine environment. Environmental aspects and impacts are assessed, risks and opportunities are managed, and appropriate controls are implemented. Our employees and seafarers are made aware of their environmental responsibilities, including applicable MARPOL and IMO requirements, while environmental performance, sustainable purchasing, resource use, waste management, and the performance of relevant contractors and outsourced providers are monitored.

We apply risk-based thinking and continual improvement across our operations. Quality, safety, environmental, fatigue, human-rights, modern-slavery, and other relevant risks are identified, assessed, controlled, monitored, and reviewed. Our maritime academies, suppliers, contractors, recruitment partners, healthcare providers, and other outsourced service providers are subject to appropriate selection, due diligence, evaluation, monitoring, and performance review.

We support worker consultation and participation, provide appropriate training and awareness based on role and responsibility, and encourage open communication with employees, seafarers, clients, contractors, suppliers, authorities, healthcare providers, and other interested parties. We maintain appropriate channels for complaints, grievances, whistleblowing, and reporting concerns, with protection against retaliation for genuine reports made in good faith.

For seafarers placed onboard vessels, we recognise that the employing ship's safety management system, work practices, watchkeeping arrangements, work and rest requirements, complaint procedures, and applicable flag-state and company requirements also apply. Seafarers are inducted and informed of relevant requirements, including STCW fitness-for-duty requirements and MLC 2006 work and welfare provisions, and are encouraged to report fatigue, safety, health, welfare, or other concerns to ship management.

Leadership is committed to meeting and, where practicable, exceeding our legal and other obligations; providing the resources necessary to achieve our objectives; maintaining effective management systems; monitoring performance; investigating incidents and nonconformities; implementing corrective action; and continually improving the effectiveness of our systems and services.

This commitment is communicated to our employees, seafarers, customers, clients, contractors, suppliers, business partners, and other interested parties and is made publicly available.

Alpha Pacific Navigation Pte Ltd is committed to responsible seafarer recruitment, protection of seafarers' rights and welfare, safe and healthy workplaces, environmental stewardship, ethical business practices, international compliance, and continual improvement, delivering trusted maritime crewing services from the South Pacific Islands with integrity.