Safer Seas: Systematic Accident Prevention

✍ Scribed by Koji Fukuoka (Author)

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2019
• Leaves: 281
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Marine accidents can occur at any time and everywhere in the world, resulting in loss of life, property, environment and reputation of the companies involved. Preventing accidents and establishing a safer world without accidents is an important agenda for the maritime industry. Since the enforcement of the International Safety Management Code in 1998, companies have taken various kinds of measures to prevent accidents. Unfortunately, measures have been undertaken in a disorganized manner, and have not been effective. Experts of risk management, the safety management system, and accident models have each undertaken accident preventive measures within the scope of their specific fields, but have not looked beyond the realm of their own fields.

This book discusses systematic accident prevention by integrating multi-disciplinary expertise based on academic research, the quality management system which has already proved its effectiveness in other fields, and findings of the author’s research. In systematic accident prevention, the weaknesses of a system within which accidents and incidents have occurred are viewed by combining scientific accident investigation data based on the International Maritime Organization model and the accident model. The nature of every type of marine accident, such as collisions, groundings, occupational casualties, etc., are derived by combining the accident model and statistical data. System weaknesses are rectified by the risk reduction method of risk management, and the rectified performance is incorporated in improvement in the system by the PDCA cycle, which is the core of the Safety Management System. We can see the weakness in the system and reduce the number of accidents and incidents while utilizing limited resources optimally to prevent accidents and incidents.

✦ Table of Contents

Table of Contents:

History of Marine Accidents, Accident Investigation and Prevention

Prior to the loss of the Titanic

The Titanic

SOLAS Convention

Accidents and international efforts

The Herald of Free Enterprise and Exxon Valdez disaster

Shift from hardware to human factors issues

Implementation of safety management system

Development of comprehensive accident investigation

The Costa Concordia disaster

Similar accidents and insights

The number of accidents decreased?

Conclusions

Mechanism of Accident Occurrence

Concept of hazard and accident

Effect of a layer of defense

Situation of defenses in-depth and accidents

Human factors and accidents

Conclusions

Accident Model

Background surrounding accidents

Historical background of accident model

Problems on each accident model

Characteristics of each industry

Accident model applicable to each industry

Conclusions

Contributing Factors of Accident Occurrence

Introduction

Central liveware

Liveware-hardware

Liveware-software

Liveware-environment

Liveware-peripheral liveware

Conclusions

Preparation for Accident Investigation

Introduction

The human error

Risk management

ISM Code

Core of quality management system

Contents of ISM Code

Implication of the PDCA cycle in an accident

Conclusions

On-site investigation

Introduction

Health and safety

Evidence

Assessing the evidence

Conclusions

Analysis Methods

Introduction

Analysis process

Event and Contributory Factors Charts

Guidelines to produce ECFC

Construction of a marine accident investigation report

Conclusions

Visualization of Weakness in the System

Introduction

Background

Holes

Latent conditions

How to find a hole at a real accident

Holes and latent conditions

Abstract generalizations (general characteristics of accidents)

Unresolved issues on the SCM

The SCM in maritime industry

Conclusions

Statistical science and characteristics of each types of accidents

Introduction

Quantification of the SHEL element

Relationship between the hole location and the number of hole occurrence

Quantification accident model

Limitations of the study

Conclusions

Convergence of accident models

Introduction

Summary of the sample accident

Analytical method

Limitations of analysis

Results

Convergence of different type of model

Conclusions

Rectification of the weakness and improvement of the system

Introduction

Principles of the systematic accident prevention

Process of systematic accident prevention

Difference between an accident and an incident

Conclusions

References

✦ Subjects

Engineering & Technology;Civil, Environmental and Geotechnical Engineering;Marine and Offshore Structures;Industrial Engineering & Manufacturing;Ergonomics;Health & Safety;Production Systems;Quality Control & Reliability;Textile Manufacturing;Manufacturing & Processing;Transport & Vehicle Engineering;Ship Operations;Ship Building Technology & Engineering;Health and Social Care;Public Health Policy and Practice;Occupational Health and Safety