Safety Management of Engine Room Operations – Roro/Pax Ships
- Autores: Alexis Dionis Melián, Raquel Quesada Morón
- Localización: Journal of maritime research: JMR, ISSN 1697-4840, Vol. 16, Nº. 2, 2019, págs. 37-43
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
The industry in the maritime sector of our time should focus, between other issues, in improving thesafety conditions of ships to be able to reduce the number of accidents and increase reliability and safetyin the navigation, loading and unloading, intenance operations, repair, etc.Despite the progress that these improvements have made throughout the history of the maritime trans-port, events such as fires, oil spills, stranded and even collisions continue to occur in the seas of theworld. No doubt that merchant shipping is one of the most dangerous professions, but despite how canwe justify that these events continue to occur as often: What do they do with it? While it is true that thecause of all accidents does not fall on the ”Human error”, the high accident rate due to the human factoris the main reason for making a study of Safety Management with greater depth. The selection of theappropriate personnel according to the national legislation and international, prepared to fill positionsof responsibility, ensuring the continuity of the operation of the ship and the safety and protection ofthe environment environment is a clear and concise objective that every shipping company must followto ensure efficient and safe operation of your vessels
