The value we provide

Looking at the history of merchant shipping, significant improvements in safety have been achieved through improved vessels, materials and general design, as well as the application of enhanced Safety Management Systems. However, due to a general LTA plateau (Lost Time Accidents), different approaches are now required to stimulate further progress.

It is widely recognised that this 'different' approach to safety will be focused on the culture of the organisation or the behaviour of the people responsible for managing safety.

A good safety culture will enhance company reputation, whereas a single major incident can ruin it. Indeed, a major incident can mar the reputation of the industry as a whole, and cause harm to many of the interdependent organisations that contribute to and rely on the success of the industry

What we do

Safety Culture is reflected in the behaviour and actions of people. In order to help companies develop their safety development strategies the process could begin with a safety culture survey in order to map the safety behaviour according to the dimensions: proactiveness, involvement, assertiveness, visibility and knowledge actions.  The areas are specifically pointed to measure the level of safety culture maturity. To address some of the weaknesses of the current safety culture safety culture workshop is one of the means to follow up on a survey or to identify actions to improve the culture in critical areas.

Another outcome of a strategy process may be to assist the management and provide employees and managers with a toolbox and guidelines for the implementation and embedment of an improved safety culture.