Reporting practices in merchant shipping, and the identification of influencing factors

Oltedal, Helle A.; McArthur, David Philip

doi:10.1016/j.ssci.2010.09.011

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“…However, as mentioned earlier, a culture of fear which prevents seafarers from reporting incidents is prevalent in shipping (Bhattacharya, 2011). Oltedal and McArthur (2011) and Kongsvik et al (2012) found that the focus of management on efficiency when under commercial pressure also discouraged seafarers from making reports. More importantly, studies on ISM implementation and OHS management in shipping revealed that the management tended to prioritise financial gains at the cost of OHS (Sampson et al, 2013;Xue et al, 2017).…”

Section: Decoupling and Interactionmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…Following the ISM implementation, a number of studies were undertaken to identify barriers to reporting. Oltedal and McArthur (2011) did a questionnaire survey on the Norwegian merchant fleet, Kongsvik et al (2012) conducted another one on offshore service vessels operating on the Norwegian continental shelf, and Lappalainen et al (2011) conducted an interview study in Finnish shipping companies. These studies revealed a number of significant factors that encouraged or inhibited incident reporting, including safety training and seafarers' competence, safety management, general safety practice, feedback on reporting, and perceived demand for cost-effectiveness and efficiency.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Decoupled implementation? Incident reporting in Chinese shipping

Chen

Tang

Walters

2018

Economic and Industrial Democracy

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The Occupational Health and Safety record is relatively poor in shipping and underreporting of incidents is a concern in the industry. Much previous research investigated why workers did not report, this paper shifts the focus to examine whether management genuinely welcomes safety related reports in the context of Chinese chemical shipping. It reveals a functional decoupling between policy and practice related to incident reporting despite external monitoring. While companies had policies and procedures to encourage reporting, in practice the management associated seafarer competence with the number of problems reported and discouraged the crew from reporting problems which would be difficult or costly to solve. The findings suggest that to address the issue of under-reporting, it is more appropriate to deal with the problem of decoupling than to focus on changing crew's behaviour.

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Section: Decoupling and Interactionmentioning

confidence: 98%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Decoupled implementation? Incident reporting in Chinese shipping

Chen

Tang

Walters

2018

Economic and Industrial Democracy

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“…It has the potential to build an understanding of maritime safety as a holistic system consisting of technical, human, and environmental components, improve the commitment of seafarers to the agreed policies, generate trust, and support social learning [142][143][144][145]. Further, it can enhance a positive safety culture within the shipping industry, and thereby support risk reporting, decrease human failures, and break the blame culture [78,146,60,147,61]. A direct influence on the safety culture, and corporate social responsibility of shipping companies can even decrease the need for regulatory policy instruments [1 , 48,149].…”

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confidence: 99%

A proactive approach for maritime safety policy making for the Gulf of Finland: Seeking best practices

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a b s t r a c tA rapid increase in maritime traffic together with challenging navigation conditions and a vulnerable ecosystem has evoked calls for improving maritime safety in the Gulf of Finland, the Baltic Sea. It is suggested that these improvements will be the result of adopting a regionally effective proactive approach to safety policy formulation and management. A proactive approach is grounded on a formal process of identifying, assessing and evaluating accident risks, and adjusting policies or management practices before accidents happen. Currently, maritime safety is globally regulated by internationally agreed prescriptive rules, which are usually revised in reaction to accidents. The proactive Formal Safety Assessment (FSA) is applied to risks common to a ship type or to a particular hazard, when deemed necessary, whereas regional FSA applications are rare. An extensive literature review was conducted in order to examine the opportunities for developing a framework for the GoF for handling regional risks at regional level. Best practices were sought from nuclear safety management and fisheries management, and from a particular case related to maritime risk management. A regional approach that sees maritime safety as a holistic system, and manages it by combining a scientific risk assessment with stakeholder input to identify risks and risk control options, and to evaluate risks is proposed. A regional risk governance framework can improve safety by focusing on actual regional risks, designing tailor-made safety measures to control them, enhancing a positive safety culture in the shipping industry, and by increasing trust among all involved.

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“…Reference to this point is made by Davies who contends that typical characteristics of total institutions, as proposed by Goffman, appear in a diverse way which renders some institutions far more total than others 27) . 20) Theotokas(2011) 21) Goffman(1968) 22) Poole(1981), pp.207-222;Forsyth and Bankston(1983), pp.8-12; Davies(1989), pp.77-95;Encandela(1991), pp.1 31-156; Oltedal and McArthur(2011), pp.331-338. 23) Goffman(1968) 24) Forsyth and Bankston(1983), pp.8-12.…”

Section: Leadership In the Maritime Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%