MSS Safety Culture Survey

Posted: 11 Feb 2010

In December 2009 all Maersk Supply HSE personnel were gathered in Copenhagen to discuss and define a new HSE strategy. In this connection it was discovered that a pre-requisite in the decision making process was to add/find more 'intelligence' supporting the process forward. In order to make the correct decisions and to initiate the correct development projects solid background information and data is in other words assessed of pivotal importance.

In compliance with this identified need it was decided to start-up 2 'intelligence gathering' processes:
     1) Safety Culture Survey and
     2) Seafarer Focus Group
to discuss specifically the Risk Assessment/SJA processes.

The objective of the project is to define; what is the problem and where is the best place to start? Often organizations start solving their problems without agreeing to what the problem is. Later on in the process, discussions and disagreement arise due to the fact that everybody will have a different comprehension of what actually is the problem.

When all the facts, feelings, emotions and other relevant information have been collected it will serve as the basis for implementation of other organizational initiatives such as; risk management training, safety management workshops, ISO 18001 implementation and safety officer training - all initiatives aiming to improve the overall safety culture within the MSS organization.