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MCL Medics

Offshore Medics & Remote Safety Staffing

In offshore and maritime environments, your medic isn’t just a clinician. They’re a primary emergency responder, an occupational hygiene officer, a safety team member and the person responsible for keeping your crew healthy enough to stay productive.

That’s a lot riding on one hire, so getting the right person matters.

Service at a glance:

  • Service: Supply of HSE-approved medics, vessel medics for energy and maritime.
  • Locations: Fixed platforms, drilling rigs, FPSOs and vessels, UKCS and global.
  • Support: Support: Every medic backed by 24/7 Topside Medical Support and consultant-level clinical governance, delivered through our Remote Medical Services centre.
  • Governance: Fully audited clinical framework. We carry the clinical liability.

Certifications & Accreditations

What our medics do

  • Primary emergency response: Advanced life support, trauma stabilisation and casualty management until evacuation can be arranged.
  • Occupational hygiene: Potable water testing, galley inspections, radiation monitoring and COSHH compliance and integration with Health Surveillance programmes where workforce exposure monitoring is required.
  • Safety integration: Working as a core HSE team member, contributing to risk assessments, heli-deck duties and incident investigation.
  • Workforce welfare: Managing general practice issues, running health campaigns and reducing avoidable medevacs.

Staffing capabilities

We supply fully vetted, accredited and insured medical personnel for both short-term cover and long-term contracts. Offshore Medics for fixed platforms, drilling rigs, and FPSOs. Vessel Medics for marine construction. Many of the professionals we deploy are trained through our HSE Offshore Medic Training course, ensuring consistent clinical standards from qualification to offshore deployment.

Why partner with us?

24/7 Topside Support:

Every deployed medic is backed by our onshore clinical team. Consultant-level decision support reduces unnecessary medevacs by up to 40%. Our governance approach also aligns with OEUK medical guidelines used across the UK offshore energy sector.

Supply chain certainty:

We handle mobilisation logistics, visa management, certification tracking and consolidated invoicing.

Clinical governance:

We carry the clinical liability. Our clinical governance framework covers supervision, audit and continuing professional development for every medic.

FAQs

All medics hold certification aligned with HSE offshore medical standards, including the Offshore Medic Certificate, current NMC or HCPC registration and a valid BOSIET/FOET. They are trained in-house by MCL, deployed operationally and backed by our 24/7 topside clinical governance.

Yes. We maintain a pool of deployment-ready, competence-assured medics for urgent cover. Contact our Aberdeen operations team for current availability.

Yes. We supply vessel medics for marine construction, survey, and dive support vessels, as well as fixed platforms, drilling rigs and FPSOs across the North Sea and internationally.

Every deployed medic operates under MCL’s SEQOHS-accredited framework with 24/7 topside physician backup. Clinical incidents are reviewed, training records are centrally managed and competence is reassessed regularly. You deal with one provider from training through to operational deployment.

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