Missing safety data

摘要

The work of CHIRP Maritime has its main justification in the assumption that reporting and publicising dangerous incidents and near misses will, through the education of mariners and shipping companies alike, reduce the scale and severity of harm to people, the marine environment, and vessels. Upon joining the CHIRP Maritime Advisory Board as its lone medical adviser in 2003,I was aware of the success of near-miss reporting in aviation. Indeed, it was Tony Nicholson, one of the originators of the aviation system and former director of the Institute of Aviation Medicine, who encouraged me to join CHIRP. This was because health considerations and human performance had repeatedly contributed to the analysis of aviation accidents and dangerous incidents. He did caution me that, just like aviation, it might take 10 years for the maritime industry to recognise its importance.