This paper intends to demonstrate that ship safety is currently at the center of intense international activities, undergoing a process of evaluation and change that is likely to yield a new face that bears little resemblance to the past. It is most heartening that changes take place in desirable directions but the need for vigilance is now greater than ever. In exploring this process of change the paper stresses the areas where attention in needed the most and attempts to provide evidence in support of a key argument concerning a gap in the way safety has always been approached. More specifically, it is compulsion to deal with it through rule development and legislation.
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