Tag: SAFEMODE

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.

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.