Tag: human factor

In an exclusive interview to SAFETY4SEA, Dr. Heike Deggim, Director, Maritime Safety Division, IMO, says that smart ships will change fundamentally ship operations and highlights that human element remains on top of IMO’s agenda. In that regard, STCW Convention and Code is under review to keep training requirements up-to-date while MLC will take into account lessons learned during the pandemic to ensure seafarers welfare under critical conditions.

While currently in development, the new vessel inspection regime, SIRE 2.0, will more accurately report on the quality of a vessel and its crew.

Incidents are a sad reality of every hazardous workplace, such as a ship, and their investigation is a key part of most Safety Management Systems. However, this investigation is not a simple task as it requires strict handling with respect to crew members’ wellbeing on the aftermath of traumatic events.

OCIMF has developed an approach to integrate human factors into its activities. As OCIMF says, a core human factor principle to reduce risk is the acceptance that people make mistakes, and that mistakes become more likely under conditions that make work difficult.

Last month, the World Maritime University hosted a webinar to introduce the White Paper “Towards a Safety Learning Culture for the Shipping Industry”, which has been developed within the framework of the EU-funded SAFEMODE project and involves a maritime-aviation partnership.

Cognitive behavioral therapy is a common form of talk therapy, which unlike some other therapies, it is a short-term treatment, taking anywhere from a few weeks to a few months to see results. CBT focuses on providing you with tools to solve your current problems, and to do that it uses various techniques.

Emotions are not under conscious control, which means that they can sometimes be unwelcome. Most people tend to avoid recognizing and coping with painful or conflicting emotions in their lives, only to realize that, in the end, it is impossible to get rid of an emotion.

There are times in life when we are going to feel overwhelmed. In particular, since the beginning of the coronavirus outbreak in March 2020, prevalence of anxiety and depression has been increased or even doubled.

Most of us tend to live in the past or the future, as we are constantly thinking about what happened yesterday, or what might happen tomorrow. This kind of thought affects our life and well-being, but there are ways to ease these thoughts and get back into living mindfully at the present.

Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is currently the treatment of choice for most anxiety disorders. Yet, with recovery rates of approximately 50%, many patients fail to achieve complete remission. This has led to increased efforts to enhance treatment efficacy. Physical exercise (PE) has in recent years been advocated as means to augment the effects of CBT for anxiety disorders.