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 …

There is a strong belief among researchers that humans contribute to some 80% of industrial
accidents, including those occurring in shipping. However, few sources give actual evidence …

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 …

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 …

This paper presents a survey of the literature on human factors in airline safety and builds a
conceptual framework for designing future safety studies. In our framework, factors are …

Over the past decade the number of maritime transportation accidents has fallen. However,
as shipping vessels continue to increase in size, one single incident, such as the oil spills …

This study empirically evaluates the influence of safety climate on vessel accidents from a
seafarer's perspective, specifically in the container shipping context. Factor analysis …

Over the past 50 years, research in maritime accidents has undergone a series of
fundamental changes. Understanding the evolution of these changes can help maritime …

It is well reported in the literature that more than 80% of shipping accidents are attributed to
Human/organisational Error. Maritime community has realised that despite all the increased …

This study empirically examined safety climate and its effects on safety behaviors from
seafarers' perceptions in the container shipping context. Research hypotheses were …