In Swedish2010
Always use a bosun
A seaman was seriously injured in the summer, breaking both his heels after jumping ashore to catch a mooring rope (read SAN News no. 3 for details). The Transport Agency has issued the following account.
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Engages others through his actions
Bo Lindgren, technical manager onboard Stena Jutlandica, has worked hard at introducing and maintaining systematic work environment activities on the shipping company’s vessels. He was awarded this year’s SAN prize for his efforts.
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Risks with electronic charts
The increased use of electronic charts has to some extent changed conditions in shipping. When used correctly, electronic equipment has the potential to make shipping safer, but not without introducing certain risks.
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Risk assessment - who is it good for?
Both Swedish and international regulations require that risks in our work environment onboard must be investigated and assessed. It is not unusual that cargo owners also make demands for risk assessment.
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Complicated systems cause errors
The annual MSSM conference on safety, health and environment onboard was held on 26-27 August in Nyborg, Denmark.
Much of the conference was about safety culture, and I will let Professor Sidney W. Dekker summarise:
”Parts fail, but systems drift into failure”.
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Leadership theme at SAN conference
Dare to be a leader. That was the theme of this year’s SAN conference held in Göteborg in October. The day started with a review of this year’s superconvention for seafarers, which will probably come into force in 2012.
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This is how you should eat when your body is asleep
Eat a proper meal before you go to bed in the morning and eat a light snack when you wake up again. Don’t eat a full-fat sandwich at night. That is Meeri Ahlstedt’s advice, onboard diet expert.
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”Health visits inspire”
– I think about what I eat and I train regularly, so the health talk didn’t really give me anything new. But it was a good pep-talk and it is positive for everybody that the company takes up these issues.
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Visits to ship for better health
By making what are called “health visits”, Furetank is trying to improve the health of its personnel and raise their awareness of diet and exercise. The shipping company’s own health coach, Sussi Löfgren, is behind this initiative.
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She wants structured inspections
More participation when international norms are written and more engagement when new ships are built. This is the way forward for long-term improvements to the work environment onboard according to Laila Danielsson, ship inspector at the Swedish Transport Agency in Göteborg.
After more than 15 years as an inspector at the Swedish Work Environment Agency, [...]
Replacement boat resulted in injury
A restaurant business in the archipelago had a boat for transporting its clients, but while this was in for inspection another boat was hired for the purpose. The replacement boat was not adapted for gangways and other devices that were designed for the original boat. Ordinary wooden pallets were used (of which one was damaged) [...]
Bank effect contri-buting factor in collision
A passenger ship was entering a canal and continued its passage after a passing a lock. Further ahead was a guest harbour for private boats. Beyond the harbour there was an old bridge abutment where the canal narrowed to about 14 metres. After leaving the lock the crew noticed that there was a sailing boat moored by the bridge abutment. Speed was reduced and the ship kept to starboard in the canal to clear the sailing boat.
Moulding of spelter sockets on wire ropes
During the inspection of a hoistable suspended deck on a RoRo ship it was discovered that the wire rope ends had started to slip out of the closed spelter sockets.
Leadership onboard – a challenge, with many involved
Working with leadership onboard a passenger ship is different from working with leadership in the office ashore. At the office the same manager arrives every day and exercises his leadership in his own special way. Among the officers onboard we have three people who share every post in order to put together the relief systems. [...]
Disagreement about resting time when STCW was pushed through
The midsummer diplomatic conference in Manila pushed through a revised version of the STCW on 25 June (standards of training, certification and watchkeeping for seafarers 1978, as amended in 1995 and 1997).
In 2006 the IMO decided to revise the STCW and after a number of meetings, workgroups and correspondence groups, the final result has now [...]
Thesis on leadership: ”Important to have trust and credibility”
– Good leadership is very much about attitudes towards other people. About showing that you have confidence in people and trust them to be capable and responsible.
Ten factors that affect employees’ engagement:
Vision and strategy
Trust in people
Active participation by management
Long-term thinking
Individual adaptation
Responsibility and authorities in work teams
Opportunity to influence
Learning
Share of profits
These are the words of [...]
Waiting for a decision on risky work with mooring ropes
A seaman broke both feet when he jumped ashore to take the mooring line after the ship had arrived. The Swedish Transport Agency is taking a serious stance on the event, but is postponing any decision on possible measures until the investigation is completed.
In the last issue of SAN news the Swedish Transport Agency’s work [...]
Wanted: flexible leadership
Many would agree that good managers are important for well-being as well as work onboard. But what exactly is good leadership? How would employees like their manager to be, and how do captains themselves view their job? Last summer SAN news paid a visit to the new bulk ship Östanvik to talk about leadership. The [...]
Full-time work environment duties
The management of the Rosella has got to grips with the work environment onboard by holding frequent safety committee meetings and having designated safety officers. Viking Line’s full-time chief safety officer, Bent Björn-Nielsen, supports all of this.
Captain is key person for better work environment
Keen safety officers are good, but knowledgeable and engaged captains are also necessary if work environment activities are to make any real progress, according to Karl-Arne Johanson at Seko Seafarers. He is pinning a lot of hopes on a new work environment course that is under development at SAN.
