Tag: human factor

The 2024 GREEN4SEA Athens Forum successfully took place on Tuesday 2nd of April 2024 at the Lighthouse of Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC), Athens. The event focused on the various alternatives that the maritime industry explores in its ongoing efforts to reduce emissions, planning for a green and sustainable future. 

Apo Belokas, Managing Editor, SAFETY4SEA, delves into the evolving landscape of the shipping industry, emphasizing the imperative of addressing human factors in relation to decarbonization and digitalization as new industry realities.

The 3rd SAFETY4SEA Hamburg Forum was a full day event that took place on Thursday 22nd of February 2024 at the Empire Riverside Hotel, Hamburg, Germany, where the latest maritime trends, including digitalization and decarbonization were explored, taking safety and the human factor into consideration.

During the 2023 SAFETY4SEA Singapore Forum, Capt. Sanjay Mittal, Chief Executive Officer, Racon Marine Consultants Pte. Ltd., gave a presentation which centred on the vital theme of human factor in current and industry initiatives.

With years of experience, research, and data collection spanning thousands of respondents, Green-Jakobsen can confidently point to factors that heavily influence human performance in a positive or negative direction.

During the 2023 SAFETY4SEA Athens Forum, Dr. Michela Terrei, Psychologist, I.M.A. ASSESSMENT AND TRAINING CENTER, INC., pinpointed that in the era of Shipping 4.0, where technology and human expertise converge, situational awareness emerges as a critical factor in ensuring the safety, efficiency, and sustainability of maritime operations.

At the 2023 SAFETY4SEA Athens Forum, Mariangela Zanaki, an Organisational Development Consultant and Psychologist with Ceosan, offered insightful perspectives on crew management strategies, informed by neuroscience. The insights she shared offer a fresh perspective on how leadership behaviors and people management system can be structured in brain-friendly ways, enhancing both efficiency and wellbeing in the crew and shore personnel management systems.

The UK Maritime and Coastguard Agency (UK MCA) has published a section in their Leading for Safety guidance, looking into how some factors that can influence the performance of people on board can lead to more accidents as well as how to mitigate or control these factors.

The Maritime and Coastguard Agency launches "Leading for safety", a comprehensive guide to help leaders promote a safety culture on board.

The maritime industry has faced its fair share of challenges over a period of time, but the difficulties brought about in the past few years have been unprecedented, especially for seafarers, argue Capt. Kostas Karavasilis, Regional Loss Prevention Director (Greece) and Akshat Arora, Senior Risk Assessor, UK P&I Club.