Long way to go for culture of safety
It’s a source of curiosity, if not puzzlement. Despite tighter regulations, stricter inspection regimes, increased training requirements and more advanced ship technologies, we are not seeing a stop to marine accidents that, on hindsight, could have easily been prevented. Safety and training gurus keep drumming on the need to cultivate a safety culture, and many shipping operators, for sure, are heeding the message. But it seems the roots of that culture aren’t spreading wider and deeper enough to become part of the very psyche of those who own the ships and those who man them. (more…)
