Winds of change in safety at sea

Press release 4/2017, 30 January, Helsinki, Finland The safety of seafaring has developed in recent years, and the level of management of safety issues is considered good. Reforms in safety thinking have nevertheless been slowed down by over-emphasis of rules and hierarchy, reveals the SeaSafety study. Seafaring needs new, positive safety thinking, which recognizes and anticipates incidents, and understands the factors that affect people’s actions and ways of thinking. The Finnish Institute of Occupational Health (FIOH), shipping companies and authorities have together tested new tools;