SAFETY AT SEA
Safety at sea: Reporting incidents, accidents and near misses saves lives By Oscar Wilkie Every day, fishers in the UK take risks in order to put the world’s best seafood on our plates. The risk of death while fishing is over ten times higher than the next most dangerous industry in the UK. Forareminderofwhyitcsvitallyimportanttoreportincidents, accidentsandnearmisses,Ispoketo Sean FridayfromtheMarine AccidentInvestigationBranch(MAIB)and Adam Parnellofthe ConEdentialHazardousIncidentReportProgrammeCHIRP) ( . Sean Friday Inspector of MarineAccidents
What is the MAIB?
Adam Parnell Director(Maritime)
What is CHIRP?
TheMAIBisanindependent Since20 3CHIRPhasbeen unitwithintheDepartmentfor improvingsafetyatseathrough Transport.Itinvestigatesmarine itsconEdentialvoluntaryincident, accidentsinvolvingUKvessels accidentandnear- missreporting worldwideandallvesselsinUK system,opentoallmariners. territorialwaters,todeterminethe CHIRPcsfocusisontheunderlying causes of accidents and make humanfactorssuch ( asfatigue, recommendationsonimproving crewinglevels,trainingstandards, safetyatsea. equipmentdesign)thatledtoan TheMAIBcsjobistohelppreventincidentoccurringratherthanon furtheravoidableaccidentsfrom theindividualsinvolved. occurring,nottoestablishblame orliability.
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