In SwedishWelcome to SAN NEWS!
This is the place where you can come to get the latest information about what is happening in the work environment area.
The good leadership
Being a good leader and a good manager can be a heavy challenge, not least on a ship. As a captain you must live with your decisions around the clock; you must be clear and decisive when required, but at the same time you are part of the social community onboard.
The autumn SAN conference will have leadership as its overall theme. This will be reflected in the newspaper and on the website, where we will take up various aspects of leadership during the year.
Read more about the leadership conference (in Swedish).
|
Current work environment
A new version of the Working Environment Manual, revised January 2010, can be downloaded here: Reports and documents
Report indicates higher accident frequency among western seamen Western seamen have more accidents than their Asian counterparts. This is stated in the article “Occupational accidents aboard merchant ships” by H L Hansen, D Nielsen and M Frydenberg in the journal Occupational and Environmental Medicine. |
 |
Latest SAN News
|
|
Right now in SAN
|
|
Quotation “In the drawings, control rooms are often just a white square. In the best cases the electricity and control panels have been drawn in. The equipment is then installed in the order in which it is delivered.” Chalmers researcher Monica Lundh about the poor planning of control rooms when building ships. |
|
Work Environment Manual
Read more here or download in pdf or order a copy from Prevent at www.prevent.se |
With the help of the Work Environment Manual, it will be easier to keep track of what laws and regulations require regarding the work environment onboard, but it can also function as working material for a safety committee, for example.
