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Seafaring is a rewarding career which offers a lifetime of opportunities and can create strong friendships, but the shipping industry needs to embrace change and improve its safety record in order to fully support its people, says Captain Kuba Szymanski, Secretary General of InterManager.

As two more workers die in an enclosed space onboard a ship, InterManager has hit out at the shipping industry’s inadequate reporting of serious and fatal accidents.

InterManager, the international trade association for ship and crew managers, is raising awareness of the fact that seafarers are dying needlessly in lifeboat accidents, when maritime legislation doesn’t require vessels to be manned during drills.

The IMO Sub-Committee on Pollution Prevention and Response held its 9th session (PPR 9) from 4 – 8 April 2022, and Intermanager presents the results of the meeting.

Shipping needs to focus on its international nature and pull together at this difficult time, an emergency meeting of ship managers agreed today, according to InterManager.

Although we are seeing improvement with enclosed space accidents, complex instructions, time pressure, poor design, poor communication and the prevailing blame culture are key factors for caution by the industry. In that regard, Capt. Kuba Szymanski, InterManager highlights that is high time to stop blaming seafarers when an accident happens; instead of asking ‘how’, let’s start questioning about the reasons behind, ‘why’.

InterManager has teamed up with The Nautical Institute and the Institute of Marine Engineering, Science & Technology (IMarEST) to launch a maritime safety competition to share innovative and practical ideas to make entry into enclosed spaces safer.

Lloyd’s Register along with InterManager, used the former's SafetyScanner machine learning technology to identify new insights regarding lifeboat accidents, in order to help improve lifeboat safety at sea.

The IMO Maritime Safety Committee 104 took place from 4 to 8 October, considering a wide variety of issues that bother the shipping industry.

Shipping needs “one voice” to represent it globally and enable the maritime community to communicate more effectively with regulators, says Mark O’Neil, President of InterManager.