Tag: OCIMF

The Oil Companies International Marine Forum (OCIMF) issued a new guidance in order to help owners/operators with pre-selection considerations before using private maritime security services. 

The fifth guiding principle out of the eight OCIMF principals on human factors, comes to highlight that people have the control of the tasks they are responsible for. As such, in the event of a mistake, they are able to give solution even though they had contributed to this failure at first place.

The Oil Companies International Marine Forum (OCIMF) released a new paper providing a framework to integrate Human Factors into management systems.

After realizing that people make mistakes, people’s actions are rarely malicious and mistakes are typically due to conditions and systems that make work difficult, the fourth guiding principle out of the eight OCIMF principals on human factors, comes to highlight the importance of understanding the conditions in which mistakes happen in order to prevent and correct them.

Incident investigations identify human failure as the key cause of almost all accidents, creating the impression that people cause incidents. However, human error is not simply a feature of individual failure, but is caused by workplace factors, equipment, and task design, among others. Mistakes are typically due to conditions and systems that make work difficult.

Major shipping groups, including BIMCO, ICS, INTERCARGO, INTERTANKO, and OCIMF, announced an upcoming reduction of geographic boundaries of the ‘High Risk Area’ for piracy in the Indian Ocean, which will apply from 1 September 2021, as a consequence of a continued downward trend in Somali piracy. 

OCIMF published its annual report for 2021, outlining its work during the year, as well as its programmes.

OCIMF released a new information paper to provide guidance on the Handling, Storage, Use, Maintenance and Testing of STS Hoses.

Many major accidents eg Piper Alpha, Chernobyl, were initiated by human failure. Human failure is not random and people’s actions are rarely malicious and usually make sense to them at the time. This is the second guiding principle for OCIMF actions on human factors, highlighting the importance of understanding why errors occur in order to develop effective controls.

Whether it’s crew members on phones or an over-reliance on other forms of technology, fatigue, or a failure of organizational culture and behavior, human error remains a key safety issue for the maritime industry.