During the Nor-Shipping Conference in Oslo, DNV GL – Maritime CEO Knut Ørbeck-Nilssen, proposed a five-step process in order to increase the level of safety in the shipping industry, highlighting that ‘regulators have to put safety at the core when they are making new regulations to address the environmental footprint.‘
Specifically, Mr Ørbeck-Nilssen supported that:
- Regulators had better make holistic regulations, boosting safety measures in the maritime sector.
- Using safety barrier management, following examples coming from the aviation and the oil and gas industries, will help shipping progress the safety aspects by addressing the most crucial and critical safety barriers.
- Safety culture is of a great importance, as there’s still room for improvement.
- Increasing transparency and agility around learnings from safety incidents and accidents. Concerning the ‘Stellar Daisy’ accident, that took more than two years to have the formal report published, Mr Ørbeck-Nilssen noted ‘I find that a disgrace and a waste of time for the industry’ as the internal findings of the incident were already ready by 2017. For the shipping industry to be able to come up with preliminary findings at an early stage is very important.
- Unlock the data SILOS to have better insights into the learnings of the incidents by sharing data.
Concluding, Mr Ørbeck-Nilssen, in light of improving safety and increasing the levels of safety in the shipping industry, commented
This is a continuous effort. It’s not something that you can do once and tick off – it has to be done continuously.
