SAFETY BARRIER INTEGRITY IN SHIP OPERATIONS

摘要

Maritime safety regulations and inspection regimes have principally developed reactively in response to accidents and incidents in the industry. For much of the world’s fleet the assurance of safety continues to be driven by demonstrating compliance with regulations and reacting to what we are able to measure, after the event. In this paper, the authors present an overview of the system approach to safety and methodologies which may be used to apply this concept in the Maritime industry. This is based around two core principles: barrier management as a means to control occupational safety and major accident risks and a model for the assessment of safety culture in the Maritime industry to understand its impact on barrier integrity. The paper concludes with a discussion of the potential value that this more holistic and dynamic approach to safety management may bring to the industry and what practical progress can be made to implement this unified model in ship design and operation.