Human Error In The Maritime Industry
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huge strides continue to be made in improving marine safety, human error remains the most important factor in marine accidents.And effects of human error in maritime industry competitive pressures coupled with the increasing size of vessels mean that training and quality of crew are becoming ever more important, experts say.Marine safety is an issue that is always near the top of
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the agenda for the International Union of Marine Insurance, according to its secretary general, Lars Lange.He said that marine insurers are “key stakeholders” in the effort to improve marine safety.IUMI works closely with organizations including the London-based International Maritime Organization, a United Nations body.Most casualties are the result either of equipment failure or human error or a combination of the two, with human error the dominant factor, said human error onboard ship Gordon Street, claims manager at Marsh Ltd. in London.A report last year by Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty, a unit of Munich-based Allianz S.E., showed that while shipping safety has improved greatly over the past 100 years — since the sinking of the Titanic — and the size of the world's commercial shipping fleet has trebled in that time, there still are key challenges to marine safety. The main challenge, according to the report, is human error, which accounts for more than 75% of marine losses.“The reason behind any given casualty is usually complex and hard to attribute to a single cause — inevitably it is a mixture of a number of things,” said Terje Paulsen, vice president for loss prevention and risk assessment at Arendal, Norway-based Gard AS.While hard data on the causes of marine accidents is difficult to find, “our experience would suggest that human error is a significant part of 70% to 80% of all accidents,” he said.%%BREAK%%While accidents are mostly due to mistakes, they rarely are caused by a single person and should be viewed “in the context of the whole organization — both onboard and ashore.”While the immediate cause of an accident may be the r
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