Technology for Maritime Safety Management

K. Inoue
Kobe University of Merchantile Marine, JAPAN

K. Inoue

Abstract

Maritime safety management means the implementation, with the consensus of the maritime society, of tangible measures to improve the safety of navigation and quality of seafarers, to raise awareness of responsibility by shipping companies, and guarantee the sea worthiness of vessels.

The success of activities to achieve these aims depends on the mentality and the willingness of people, organizations and nations involved to cooperate.

In other words, the techniques used to manage maritime safety can be defined as techniques to guarantee the logical necessity of the methodology employed to achieve navigation safety and techniques to achieve a social consensus in order to promote this methodology in the international maritime society.

In the present paper, the definitions of terms used in the framework of maritime safety management are explained. And examples of scientific approaches to management technique needed for various types of maritime safety management are introduced.