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Safety Seminar 2011
This Annual Safety seminar was
successfully hosted in Southampton at MCA’s head office on the 10 November
with over 40 delegates in attendance. The theme was "Human Elements and Tugs"
and there were good presentations on behavioural safety, tugs and simulators,
training the right way and pilot-tug relationships by the MCA, UK Pilots,
Chamber of Shipping & Lairdside Maritime Centre. At the end of the seminar
there was a practical safety workshop with a safety message on near misses,
implementing risk assessments, behaviours that effect safety and steps to avoid
accidents on board.
Nick Dorman who chaired the conference
highlighted the importance of this event for the tug sector and an opportunity
it offers for everyone to get together and learn about the most common safety
issues effecting the safe operation of the tugs and listen to the industry
experts. In his opening remarks he mentioned that this conference has been held
annually for over a decade and year on year there has been always something new
and interesting to take back at the end of day. BTA’s Secretary General
Saurabh Sachdeva highlighted that this year BTA will reinstate the collation of
accident statistics and near misses data that would greatly assist the tug
industry to be able to benchmark its safety and also record incidents to
compare with other similar transport sectors. The Chairman closed the
conference with a safety message for everyone “If we can overcome the
culture of behavioural complacency then we will surely be able to eliminate the
root cause of an accident. Eradication of this root cause clearly demands
leadership, understanding and most importantly senior management to support
their crew to work as a team”.
Seminar Presentations (PDF
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• Behavioural Safety Systems by Tim
Springett
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Human Behaviour, Pilot/Tug Interaction and Accident Causes by Captain Don
Cockrill
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Human Element and Tugs by Bert Kunze
• Human Element & the
ISM Code by Marc Williams
• Benchmarking UK Tug Industry by Jason
Woodward
•
Svitzer UK Safety Memorandum No 1 - 2011
• Svitzer UK Safety
Memorandum No 3 - 2011
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