An empirical assessment of ISM Code effectiveness on performance: the role of ISO certification

Pantouvakis, Angelos; Karakasnaki, Maria

doi:10.1080/03088839.2016.1169451

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“…For example, Tzannatos and Kokotos (2009) and Kokotos (2013) found that ISM implementation led to a continuous and statistically significant decrease in the rates of accidents induced by human error in the Greek fleet. More recently, Pantouvakis and Karakasnaki (2016, 2018) found that top management commitment was positively related to ISM implementation effectiveness, which in turn enhanced customer satisfaction and the financial performances of shipping companies. By contrast, studies taking qualitative approaches revealed various problems associated with ISM implementation, including reluctance to report safety deficiencies (Bhattacharya, 2011, 2012; Lappalainen et al, 2011; Xue et al, 2018, 2019), excessive paperwork and bureaucratisation (Bhattacharya, 2012; Bhattacharya and Tang, 2013b), and the existence of a blame culture and distrust between the management and crew (Bhattacharya, 2012; Sampson et al, 2016, 2019).…”

Section: Organisational Support and Its Relationship To Safety Managementioning

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Organisational support and safety management: A study of shipboard safety supervision

Chen

Tang

2019

Econ. labour relat. rev.

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Shipping is a safety critical industry where operational errors may lead to maritime accidents involving property damage, loss of lives and environmental pollution. As part of the trend towards self-regulation, the International Maritime Organisation has adopted a worldwide International Safety Management Code which made ship managers responsible for workplace health and safety. This study, based on interviews in two Chinese shipping companies, examines how ship managers use ship visits to monitor shipboard safety management. Interviews with managers from company offices and crew members indicated that managerial ship visits mainly take the form of inspections that focus on low-trust surveillance and disciplinary action rather than genuine support, being based on the safe person rather than the more effective safe place approach. From the perspective of crew members, because the managers visited ships only occasionally, they were unlikely to have sound knowledge of the specific situations and work routines on their ships. Consequently, managers’ interventions for safety compliance were seen by crew members as failing to address real risk factors, and leading instead to increased workloads, psychological pressure and fatigue, the very antithesis of safety management. Meanwhile a coherent, supportive system for reducing risk remains underdeveloped in the shipping industry. JEL Codes: J81, J83, L91, M54, N75

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Section: Organisational Support and Its Relationship To Safety Managementioning

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Organisational support and safety management: A study of shipboard safety supervision

Chen

Tang

2019

Econ. labour relat. rev.

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“…Under such circumstance, the crew would rather choose not to report. The literature indicates that 'human error' investigation approaches (Oltedal and McArthur 2011;Pantouvakis andKarakasnaki 2016, 2018;Psarros et al 2010) and a 'person oriented' focus (Oltedal and Wadsworth 2010) can lead to a failure to identify 'real causal factors'. The example described above shows some correspondence with the existing literature, inasmuch as in this incident the underlying ('real') cause of the accident-fatigue-was regarded as something that any investigation would leave unmentioned.…”

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Safety Aboard Chinese Vessels

Chen

2020

The World of the Seafarer

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The aim of this chapter is to explore the factors that affect ship to shore safety reporting in the Chinese shipping industry. The study was motivated by of the paucity of research in this specific area. Previous research in shore-based industries suggests that there may be cause for concern in shipping as ashore there is evidence of significant underreporting across a wide range of industries. This study, though it is small in scale, was conducted to partially fill the existing gap. The data used was collected from two major chemical shipping companies in China. Both employers and employees’ perspectives were considered in the process of data analysis. Furthermore, the ‘social factors’ behind the scene of reporting—underreporting, or biased reporting—were explored.

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“…Another important agreement is the Maritime Labour Convention (MLC) (ILO [2006] 2014) that deals with living and working conditions. Recent empirical assessment studies of these agreements include Akyuz, Karahalios, and Celik (2015) for MLC, Pantouvakis and Karakasnaki (2016) for ISM, and Ugurlu, Kum, and Aydogdu (2017) for STCW. Karahalios (2017) discussed the role and evaluation of expert knowledge in the maritime regulatory field.…”

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Predictive power of inspection outcomes for future shipping accidents – an empirical appraisal with special attention for human factor aspects

Heij

Knapp

2018

Maritime Policy & Management

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This paper investigates whether deficiencies detected during port state control (PSC) inspections have predictive power for future accident risk, in addition to other vessel-specific risk factors like ship type, age, size, flag, and owner. The empirical analysis links accidents to past inspection outcomes and is based on data from all around the globe of PSC regimes using harmonized deficiency codes. These codes are aggregated into eight groups related to human factor aspects like crew qualifications, working and living conditions, and fatigue and safety management. This information is integrated by principal components into a single overall deficiency index, which is related to future accident risk by means of logit models. The factor by which accident risk increases for vessels with above average compared to below average deficiency scores is about 6 for total loss, 2 for very serious, 1.5 for serious, and 1.3 for less-serious accidents. Relations between deficiency scores and accident risk are presented in graphical format. The results may be of interest to PSC authorities for targeting inspection areas, to maritime administrations for improving asset allocation based on prediction scenarios connected with vessel traffic data, and to maritime insurers for refining their premium strategies.

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An empirical assessment of ISM Code effectiveness on performance: the role of ISO certification

Cited by 17 publications

References 39 publications

Organisational support and safety management: A study of shipboard safety supervision

Organisational support and safety management: A study of shipboard safety supervision

Safety Aboard Chinese Vessels

Predictive power of inspection outcomes for future shipping accidents – an empirical appraisal with special attention for human factor aspects

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