The new European Marine Casualty Information Platform, EMCIP, went live on 3 September following 18 months of development and testing. The newly developed system offers enhanced reporting tools which have been implemented through internet technologies.
EMCIP incorporates user friendly interfaces and visualisation tools which will help marine safety investigators and maritime authorities to draw safety lessons and learn from them.
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While the first version is only available to marine accident investigation bodies, access is expected to be granted to other competent authorities and a section made available to the public in the foreseeable future.
In order for EMCIP to support the detection of safety issues, it will use six steps:
Step 1
Definition of the scope of the analysis: This will be important for the extraction of the dataset and analysis.
Step 2
Definition of safety areas: These will be based on attributes in EMCIP.
Step 3
Identification of potential safety issues: This will combine the contributing factors and accidental events.
Step 4
Ranking of potential safety issues: This will be achieved by looking at the frequency of potential safety issues and their consequences.
Step 5
Analysis: This will be a detailed look at the investigation reports and safety recommendations issued by accidents investigation reports.
Step 6
Reporting: Preparation of the report with the conclusions of the analysis.
