Tag: SAFEMODE

A Human Factors approach can generate general guidance that would be applicable to numerous ship bridge and equipment designs. Overall, Human Factors can help to maximise the safety impact of safety lessons learned the hard way via incidents and accidents.

It is difficult to have a Safety Culture and an effective Safety Learning Culture when it is believed that only seafarers make mistakes of any consequence.

The EU-funded SAFEMODE project highlights that safety forums as well as safety alliances can significantly contribute to general shipping safety and to safety culture in the industry as a whole.

The captains of each ship may occasionally receive weekly updates with important safety messages or information about recent accidents and lessons learned.

According to the EU-funded SAFEMODE project, a deep dive is where a group of people try to get to the bottom of an accident or a series of related accidents, to look at it from all angles, to understand it and see what lessons can be drawn from it.

The EU-funded SAFEMODE project highlights the power of group learning reviews during an incident investigation. Most of the time, those involved in an incident are interviewed separately, and the interviewer's role is to 'put the pieces together'.

In a number of industries there is a sense that you cannot address everything at the same time. This has resulted in a number of organizations identifying their ‘Ten Most Wanted’ list of accidents or factors to reduce, or of safety improvements to implement, the EU-funded SAFEMODE project highlights.

The EU-funded SAFEMODE project highlights the need to evolve a simple database in which accidents are being reported into an evidence base from which the most common and severe accidents, as well as their causes and contributory factors, can emerge.

According to the EU-funded SAFEMODE project, it is useful to consider the accident ‘iceberg’, when considering causality and Safety Learning. The events and facts – who did what, when and where, are the surface layer, relatively easy to document. But they don’t tell the whole story.

According to the EU-funded SAFEMODE project, which focuses on ways to enhance Safety Culture within the maritime industry, in order to learn, there must be commonly understood ways of describing events, accidents and the Human Element. The technical term for this is a Taxonomy, which is basically an agreed set of definitions and descriptions.