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

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 …

Acknowledging that shipping safety continues to be a major topic of interest in the maritime
community, the present study attempts to identify the critical factors of International Safety …

The number of maritime safety regulations is extensive and an essential part of policy
evaluation is to more carefully examine whether maritime safety regulation achieves the …

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 …

This paper describes how there has been a growing recognition of the fact that human
errors, rather than equipment problems, have been responsible for approximately 62% of …

SUMMARY A project is underway to identify publicly available databases of marine
accidents, review their structures, and analyze the contents. The objective of the project is to …

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 …

Everybody is familiar with the famous 80% figure with regard to “Human Error” or “Human
Failure” when discussing safety in maritime operations. Standard accident examples in the …

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 …