Traditionally, life at sea has ranked among the riskiest of employments, and the past few decades have seen efforts to deliver marine safety through research, investigation, analysis, legislation, training, safety equipment and technological advances. With this in mind, it can be worrying and perplexing to review evidence such as that in the UK Marine Accident Investigation Branch’s (MAIB) third safety digest of 2009, which notes the repetitive prevalence of human error, sometimes at a ver....

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