Tag: fatigue

The Swedish P&I Club published its Monthly Safety Scenario for May 2014 regarding an Officer of the Watch who fell asleep while on duty .

The Nautical Institute has issued Mars Report No.12 as follows

The Nautical Institute has issued Mars Report No.02 for 2014 regarding a maritime accident in which an engineer attempted to open the incinerator door while underway.

The Nautical Institute has issued Mars Report No.01 for 2014 regarding a fatality due to fatigue and dangerous conditions onboard.

PrimeShip-HULL (HCSR) ship design support software fully compliant with IACS CSR ClassNK has announced the release of a new version of its PrimeShip-HULL (HCSR) ship design support software that is fully compliant with the new IACS Common Structural Rules (harmonized CSR) for oil tankers and bulk carriers. The new ship design support software is the first in the world to fully support the new Common Strucutural Rules, which were adopted by IACS in December 2013. As part of its work to support the development of safer ships, ClassNK is providing the software free of charge to its customers such as shipyards and designers around the world.The new IACS CSR not only unify and harmonize the technical requirements of the existing Common Structural Rules (CSR) for tankers and bulk carriers, but also incorporate new requirements for more comprehensive structural analysis at the design stage, including FEM analyses covering the entire range of cargo hold structures, as well as new formulae for buckling, fatigue, and residual strength criteria to enhance safety and reliability. The new rules will be applied to all bulk carriers over 90m and all oil tankers over 150m contracted on and after 1 July 2015.Although the harmonized CSR represents ...

2013 Safety4Sea Forum- Apostolos Belokas

ILO MLC came into force on 20th of August, 2013 and one of the key problems that would like an extra effort to implement is the issue of the Work and Rest Hours. Rest hours defined in STCW are the same with those of MLC however many industry insiders are confused with the work period issue that according to a 77 hour rest week leaving a 91 hours work week (7x24 - 77 = 91).

MARTHA to be the new HORIZON project for maritime safety With increasing concerns over human safety, environmentaldamage and commercial loss, researchers at Southampton Solent University have been awarded $1.5 million by the TK Foundation in Nassau, Bahamas, to lead an additional international research project into seafarer fatigue.Due to the current economic climate, ships' crews are under increasing pressure from competitive voyage schedules, and there are rising concerns over incidents and accidents that are increasingly attributed to fatigue.Building on its predecessor project HORIZON, a 3.4 million European Commission-funded study into fatigue at sea, the new project MARTHA will continue this research and pilot some of the recommendations made by experts at Solent Universitys Warsash Maritime Academy and the Stress Research Institute at Stockholm University.One of the outcomes of Project HORIZON has been the production of a prototype fatigue prediction model, created specifically for use in shipping operations. Based on a theoretical model produced from research within other industries, it predicts the levels of fatigues among watch keepers. One of the aims of the latest project is to put this into practice and test it at sea.Following previous test results and recommendations, project MARTHA will also explore other ways in which to ...

Fatigue is posing a risk to the safety of shipping and to the health of seafarers, Nautilus warned leading maritime lawyers last night.

Dealing with the menace of fatigue