While comparing the shipping industry with the likes of nuclear and aviation, there appears to be a low understanding of how and why significant incidents occur. As the UK Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) states…, “one factor still dominates the majority of maritime accidents; human error.”
From Torrey Canyon oil spill incident in 1967 to the grounding of Costa Concordia cruise ship in 2012 and the most recent collision incident of the vessel Sanchi in 2018, most of the investigations, assessments, and analyses stop at the human or their behaviour and do not take into account what is currently known in other industries about what drives incidents.
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