Over the last decade, the shipping industry has implemented a number of measures aimed
at improving its safety level (such as new regulations or new forms of team training). Despite …

Abstract In 1993, the International Maritime Organization adopted the International Safety
Management (ISM) Code which requires all shipping companies operating certain types of …

A dedicated Human and Organisational Factors (HOFs) framework for maritime accidents
investigation and analysis is developed in this paper. A prototype of the framework is …

The importance of accident investigations carried out in every field where operators play a
vital role is increasingly recognised. Many researchers argue that understanding accident …

An analysis of 40 ocean-going commercial vessel accidents is compared with the study of a
similar number of high-speed crafts (HSCs) accidents, using in both cases a methodology …

A common interest of all shipping industry stakeholders is safe and accident-free shipping.
To reach that goal, one of the most important actions that can be done is to analyze previous …

This research aimed to identify and map the common patterns of human and organizational
causes underlying two types of marine accident: groundings and collisions. Generalizing …

Careful accident investigation provides opportunities to review safety arrangements in socio-
technical systems. There is consensus that human intervention is involved in the majority of …

INTRODUCTION: There are numerous diverse papers that have addressed issues within
maritime safety; to date there has been no comprehensive review of this literature to …

Lessons from maritime accidents are conventionally used to inform safety improvements in
design and operation of ships. However, this process is only as good as the core …