Tag: safety culture

According to the report, cyber, autonomous shipping and piracy risks are the current major concerns for the industry as economic pressures challenge budgets. 85 large ships lost worldwide in 2016, down 50% over a decade. Top losses were reported in South China and Southeast Asia and now East Mediterranean region is considered as the top incident hotspot.

Maritime safety specialist Propel finds that human element continues to be a huge contributor factor to major accidents and recommends ways for the industry to change its focus when it comes to improving maritime safety. Despite the continuing downward trend in total vessel losses, the risk of major accidents has increased due to higher potential consequences due to increased ship sizes and complexities of operations increase.

Yves Vandenborn, Director of Loss Prevention talks about Standard P&I Club’s initiatives to tackle human error. Capt. Vandenborn notes that there is a need to enhance situational awareness and reassess the risks involved in daily operations in order seafarers not to deal with them as routine tasks and he concludes that safety culture with quality experience is crucial.

Captain Fared Khan, Marine Director, Wallem Group, presents key safety issues from ship managers' perspective to highlight why a strong safety culture contributes to operational excellence.

Crowley Maritime Corporation’s tanker escort and docking services group in Valdez is celebrating over seven million man hours and more than six years since logging its last Lost Time Injury (LTI).

Erasmia Vlachandrea, HSE & Vetting Manager, Alison Management Corp.analysed the''Best Practices on operational level from the Operator Perspective'' at the 2015 SAFETY4SEA Athens Forum. She stated that commercial vessels are by definition unsafe and mitigating safety risks is a challenging job. Over the past decades, rendering the ships safe is becoming more and more demanding as requirements get stricter and more complicated. The benefits of a well-established safety culture are never apparent immediately. She concluded that no matter the obstacles, it will pay off eventually. The nature of the safety and the shipping industry and particularly in tankers has changed radically over the last two decades as we all know, many issues have appeared and that has made us all to change our outlook on how we work; this goes especially for oil companies, seafarers onboard the vessel, Port State Controls, P&I Clubs, Classification Societies and flag administrators. When I first became a DPA during my first steps in the industry I was onboard an oil tanker on the maiden voyage and I tried to take the elevator together with the engineer but unfortunately the cabinet never arrived. When we opened the door which showed the shaft underneath, the master ...

Helm Operations published a report analysing the impact of crew engagement and organizational culure on maritme safety in the workboats and OSV sectors.

Campaign on galley and accommodation cleaning reflects the need to raise awareness among seafarers that risks from infection are greater than from accidents

Developing effective safety cultures on board involves thinking outside the box and away from established practice, according to Martin Hernqvist, head of The Swedish Club Academy, t

DNV addresses the totality of potential risk elements to improve performance and safety culture