Effective Learning from Safety Events Reporting Takes Two: Getting to the Root & Just Culture

ABSTRACT: SAFEMODE is an EU-funded project under the Horizon 2020 programme. The project brings together experience from the whole safety value chain including manufacturers, service providers, regulators, academia, and small-medium enterprises. This paper focuses on two core aspects the project is addressing: 1) the systematic collection, analysis, and categorization of Human Factors (HF) data from maritime and aviation safety events, and 2) the development of a Just Culture framework for maritime to encourage reporting of safety events and learning from them, and at which respondents feel they are treated in a fair and just manner when reporting. Learning from safety events is only possible if root causes of accidents and incidents are properly and systematically identified, analysed, and categorized, and reporters know that reporting is a “safe” and beneficial practice. The implementation of these two outcomes as part of the institutionalization strategy of the project includes recommendations to industry guidance and practice and proposals to the International Maritime Organization (IMO).

KEYWORDS: Maritime Education and Training (MET), Human Element, International Maritime Organization (IMO), Effective Learning, Just Culture, Root Culture, Human Factor (HF), Safety Events

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Carrera Arce M., Baumler R.: Effective Learning from Safety Events Reporting Takes Two: Getting to the Root & Just Culture. TransNav, the International Journal on Marine Navigation and Safety of Sea Transportation, Vol. 15, No. 2, doi:10.12716/1001.15.02.08, pp. 331-336, 2021

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