How unsafe acts occur: an automatic text mining study

Shi, Xin; Xu, Dong; Zhuang, Huizhao; Liu, Chen

doi:10.1080/03088839.2021.1894363

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“…However, this approach does not seem to have significantly impacted accident and safety theory or practice, as most of the literature still focuses on individual factors as causes of maritime accidents. For instance, individual fatigue (Stratmann and Boll 2016 ), situation awareness (Grech et al 2002 ; Razavi et al 2014 ; Stratmann and Boll 2016 ), slip or skill/knowledge deficiencies (Yim 2017 ) and very rarely labour conditions (Wang et al 2021 ), unsafe supervision (Shi et al 2021 ), seafarer competence/skills (Yim 2017 ; Wang and Yin 2020 ), and at the team level individual crew error (Changhai and Shenping 2019 ). Only a very few studies are beginning to consider errors at the organisational level (Bhardwaj et al 2022 ).…”

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“…Generally, causes of accidents are not considered at a level beyond that of the ship, with a few rare exceptions. Some examples confirming these exceptions are the deficiencies of Port State Control (PSC) (Fan et al, 2018 ; Wang et al 2021 ); violation of regulations (but it is unclear whether these were due to the decision-making of the Captain and/or shipowner) (Shi et al 2021 ); insufficient government supervision of ship owners and shipping companies (Wang and Yin 2020 ). Thus, there appears to be a gap in our knowledge and understanding of the causes of accidents that largely neglect the role of the broader ship ecosystems (communication with other ships, communication with the shore, maintenance and investment choices made by the shipowner, managerial choices such as the number and level of qualification of the crew, manning and navigation decisions made by the shipowner/port agents to the ship) as risk factors.…”

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A holistic view of maritime navigation accidents and risk indicators: examining IMO reports from 2011 to 2021

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This paper investigated the risk indicators in maritime accidents and how they are considered within the reporting of maritime accidents, drawing on ten years of International Maritime Organisation (IMO) (2011–2020) accident reports. It highlighted the lack of consistent findings in studies exploring the role of vessel characteristics in maritime accidents, which often result from different methods, databases, techniques and motivations used by each respective study for gathering and analysing data. Furthermore, as human error continues to be highlighted as the top-cited cause of accidents, this study examined the qualitative content of IMO accident reports in-depth to broaden our understanding of maritime accident risk factors. Using a data-driven approach, statistical (ANOVA) and advanced text-mining techniques (using IRAMUTEQ software) were applied to extract meaning from the semi-structured and unstructured narrative descriptions that constitute most of the national administrations’ investigation reports to the IMO. Building on the text analysis of the IMO accident data, we proposed the Accident Maritime Ecosystem framework, which incorporates individuals, the ship organisation (on board), the internal ship ecosystem (on board and onshore), the external ship ecosystem (external factors) and the global maritime ecosystem (policies and regulations); moreover, it identifies these entities as risk factors in maritime accidents. The findings illustrate how accident reporting is largely human-centric and that as maritime transportation is becoming increasingly complex, there is a need for policy and organisational decision-makers to incorporate a broader scope of actors when considering maritime risk factors, which can be achieved by using the AME framework as a guideline.

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A holistic view of maritime navigation accidents and risk indicators: examining IMO reports from 2011 to 2021

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“…A major portion of studies implies that workers' factors such as preconditions for unsafe acts (i.e. mental fatigue, poor communication and coordination, and adverse physiological states) are among the main underlying causes of accidents (Aliabadi et al, 2018;Arifuddin et al, 2019;Eskandar et al, 2019;Hale et al, 2012;Shi et al, 2021;Yang et al, 2021). As a personal factor, mental state such as mental fatigue and stress is considered as leading factor in affecting safety behavior (Jebelli et al, 2019).…”

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Assessing the impact of peripheral vision on construction site safety

Kiral

Demirkesen

2022

ECAM

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PurposeThis study aims to observe the impact of peripheral vision on construction safety. The study further intends to create awareness of eye diseases in construction safety, an important root cause for most construction-related hazards and accidents.Design/methodology/approachThis study focuses on the impact of peripheral vision in terms of construction site safety. Experiments were conducted with construction employees with different qualifications, ages, expertise and previous safety training experience. The experiments were conducted with an experiment set consisting of a tangent screen to measure the peripheral angle of the participants. The study measured peripheral vision, which helped determine the vision field accordingly. In this context, a total of 32 participants were investigated in terms of their peripheral visual angle and the field of vision. The data collected were analyzed in terms of several statistical tests such as One-Sample t-test, multivariate ANOVA and multiple linear regression.FindingsThe results of the study indicated that there are significant differences in peripheral vision in terms of age of participants, work qualification, work experience, area of expertise and previous safety training experience. The study further revealed that most of the participants failed to satisfy both OSHA requirements about peripheral vision, and normal limits defined in the previous literature. The study further implies that participants, who reported previous sight problems or eye diseases are more vulnerable to construction site accidents.Originality/valueConstruction site safety remains a major concern for most construction companies despite the latest developments in technology. Several companies are struggling with poor safety performance, occupational injuries and illnesses, and work-related accidents resulting in fatalities. However, the root causes behind several construction accidents are still vague due to different dynamics in the construction industry. Among these root causes, poor sight, vision and or eye diseases constitute an important part. Hence, the study provides empirical evidence with the workers checked for eye health to help policymakers and industry practitioners in terms of developing awareness for eye-related injuries and accidents and review their safety programs accordingly.

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“…Developing the evolutionary process of unsafe acts related to maritime accidents is a critical issue worthy of additional attention [29,30]. The Bayesian Network (BN) is a graphical technique expressing complex probabilistic relationships, especially in nonprecise information estimates prone to uncertainty [31,32], it is widely used in the probabilistic occurrence estimation and quantitative risk assessment of maritime accidents or incidents [33][34][35][36][37][38][39].…”

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Framework for Process Analysis of Maritime Accidents Caused by the Unsafe Acts of Seafarers: A Case Study of Ship Collision

Wang

2022

JMSE

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Accurately describing and evaluating the effects of unsafe acts on maritime accidents is critical to establishing practical accident prevention and control options. This paper proposes a framework for the probabilistic analysis of maritime accidents caused by seafarers’ unsafe acts by incorporating a navigation simulation and dynamic Bayesian network (DBN) modeling. First, the unsafe acts of seafarers are identified according to an in-depth analysis of global maritime investigation reports. Then, a navigation simulation experiment is designed to collect the ship-handling data of seafarers during hazardous accident scenarios. Consequently, a dynamic probabilistic model is proposed using a DBN to describe the phases of maritime accidents based on the navigation simulation experiment data. Furthermore, an evolution analysis of maritime accidents is conducted to explore the causal chain of such accidents through sensitivity analysis. The typical navigational accident-collision is chosen as the case to interpret the proposed framework, considering the formation process of ship collision risks, from the occurrence of ship collision risk (phase 1) to the close-quarters situation (phase 2) and to immediate danger (phase 3). This framework is applied to explore the causal chain of collision accidents caused by the unsafe acts of seafarers.

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How unsafe acts occur: an automatic text mining study

Cited by 7 publications

References 17 publications

A holistic view of maritime navigation accidents and risk indicators: examining IMO reports from 2011 to 2021

A holistic view of maritime navigation accidents and risk indicators: examining IMO reports from 2011 to 2021

Assessing the impact of peripheral vision on construction site safety

Framework for Process Analysis of Maritime Accidents Caused by the Unsafe Acts of Seafarers: A Case Study of Ship Collision

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