There is a strong belief among researchers that humans contribute to some 80% of industrial
accidents, including those occurring in shipping. However, few sources give actual evidence …

Various national maritime authorities and international organizations show strong interest to
implement risk management processes to decision making for shipping accident prevention …

Abstract Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships (MASS) are attracting increasing attention in
the maritime industry. Despite the expected benefits in reducing human error and …

Over the last decade, the shipping industry has implemented a number of measures aimed
at improving its safety level (such as new regulations or new forms of team training). Despite …

This paper analyses the marine accident reports published by the USA National
Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) between June 1975 and September 2017, in order to …

The recent foundering of the Costa Concordia in January 2012 demonstrated that accidents
can occur even with ships that are considered masterpieces of modern technology and …

Careful accident investigation provides opportunities to review safety arrangements in socio-
technical systems. There is consensus that human intervention is involved in the majority of …

Designing maritime safety management systems commonly follows basic processes which
focus on fulfilling the demands of the regulations in the industry. This provokes designing …

Maritime operations are complex socio-technical activities, with many interacting agents.
Such agents are acting based on different, sometimes conflicting, goals. The traditional …

This paper investigates whether deficiencies detected during port state control (PSC)
inspections have predictive power for future accident risk, in addition to other vessel-specific …