Head of Seafarers
Maritime and Coastguard Agency
United Kingdom
Julie Carlton joined the Department for Transport in 1987 and moved to the Marine Safety Agency (now the MCA) in 1995. As Head of the MCA’s Seafarer Safety and Health Branch since 2009, Julie has responsibility for living and working conditions for seafarers and fishermen, including implementation of the MLC, 2006 and the ILO Work in Fishing Convention, 2007 (ILO 188), which the UK ratified in 2013 and 2019 respectively. She also has responsibility for seafarer health and safety policy, seafarer medical issues and the MCA’s Human Element strategy. Julie chaired the ILO’s Special Tripartite Committee on the MLC from 2018 to 2022. In 2019, she was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for services to maritime safety.