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MARINE | Loss Prevention In association with Skuld
Listening is all Joe Maguire, Technical Manager, Skuld Loss Prevention and Technical Management, explains how a journey of listening and open mindedness leads to adaptive resilience in the critical area of loss prevention
Where does one start a journey? In this case at the end, which is the sea farm ‘Jostein Albert’ at 385 metres long and 59.5 meters wide it has a capacity of 10,000 tonnes of salmon. The latest technologies and huge vessels which are more akin to a semi-submersible offshore unit than what would be considered a more conventional vessel or fish farm found in a fjord, are being deployed to farm these silver torpedoes. So how can we translate our knowledge of ships and their role in the world to a ship like structure which floats but has a very different role to play in an ever evolving and innovative maritime industry? An alternative question could be: what has this got to do with a bulk carrier and a department called Loss Prevention at a P&I Club? A fair question to raise. Defining loss prevention is important because a popular search engine will tell you there are some 434,000,000 possible definitions! Narrowing that field, therefore, is a salient point. The Marine Insurer Nordic & Asia Special Edition | April 2021
COLLABORATIVE WORKING To throw my hat into the ring of an already saturated pool of definitions: Loss Prevention is listening without prejudgment. To be inquisitive and to understand without agreeing or disagreeing any given set of often dynamic and complex systems, which most often overlap into other complex and dynamic systems, working collaboratively to grow (operational) resilience. The vast majority of the companies that I work with on a day to day basis are succeeding, growing and enjoying positive outcomes in the course of their business more often than they are not. Understanding how and why this is the case often holds the key to both gaining a good relationship and building trust and then translating that into transparency and collaboration to increase resilience when or where a negative outcome occurs for a company. It is self-evident that you need to know how a company succeeds before loss prevention can support any fine-tuning or
