Maritime Safety-The Human Factor

摘要

Safety at sea has many faces, from the personal drama of airlifting an injured crew-member from a channel ferry to the catastrophic environmental after-effects of major disasters such as the oil spill from the Exxon Valdez in Alaska. Knowledge and training must always be the keys to better safety standards.rnMaritime operations and management are now more technical, and more regulated, than ever before, but is it possible to develop an over-arching 'safety culture' that can be applied in a fragmented, global industry where crews are often multi-national? Can the psychology of behaviour and attitudes tell us anything useful about how to design more effective, cross-cultural safety training?