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STATISTICS

The American Club, ABS & Lamar University are collaborating to standardize reporting, provide recommendations and ultimately improve day-to-day maritime safety.

• Proper exercise to strengthen back muscles; to identify and share trends, corrective actions, lessons learned • Nutrition and weight control; and and to develop benchmarking statistics. More information can be • Removing or properly marking the slippery surfaces to found by clicking: https://maritime.lamar.edu/ av oid slips, trips and falls that can lead to back injuries. ABS and Lamar’s efforts support an understanding of the hu- man element in all aspects of the maritime industry. Industry and

NEAR MISSES university involvement with the MSRI allows us to target specifc

Many safety researchers and safety professionals view a pyramid needs that could be addressed to achieve a better understanding of or iceberg model relationship between near misses and incidents human factors, ergonomics, the contribution of human decisions based on Heinrich Accident Triangle, increasing from unsafe acts and behaviors to accidents and incidents, and different means to and hazardous conditions, to near misses, to frst aid cases, to lost improve safety. Stakeholdres have used the MSRI analyses to: work time, to major injuries, and fnally to fatalities. The ratio be- • Help direct safety auditing efforts or vessel design tween reported near misses and unreported near misses is arguably c hange efforts; on the order of 5 to 1 or 10 to 1. A similar ratio may be maintained • Identify additional shipboard hazards (space specifc); at each level as one goes from near misses to fatalities. • Assist safety interventions and resource allocation;

While the exact ratio may vary widely, safety researches would • Input to safety (metrics) – benchmarking; anticipate some similar pattern of many near misses and hazard- • Augment existing Toolbox Talks and other safety ous conditions and few major events. Near misses may represent related education for crew; and a warning signal that an incident might occur. Table 2 displays the • Support continual improvement of shipboard safety near miss by event types in the ABS/Lamar data set. and related safety

Some near miss categories such as spills, housekeeping, con- • management systems.

ditions of equipment, line handling activities, and personal pro-

RESOURCES tective equipment (PPE) do not match a specifc corresponding injury category, but they can potentially cause several different This joint initiative has spurred a number of further consider- types of injuries. ations for the American Club, and the ABS/Lamar MSRI, particu-

The near miss pattern suggests that perceived risk drives near larly related to addressing the most critical injury factors related miss reporting. When the percentage of near miss in an area sig- to slips, trips, falls, lifting incidents and near miss and hazardous nifcantly diverges from the percentage of injuries in an area, a situation reporting. The American Club is considering a mobile potential opportunity exists for educational interventions being application type of hazardous situation, near miss reporting sys- useful to reduce injuries. In the study, lifting was the area of tem for Members in 2020. The product will also be accompanied greatest divergence between the number of near misses and ac- by a user training program to assist in building a consistent re- tual injury events. Almost as many near misses in the ABS/Lamar porting system. Currently, the ABS/Lamar MSRI has an existing data set were reported for smoking (0.5%) as all lifting-related public portal (http://maritime.lamar.edu) which has some guid- near miss events (0.7%). ance on near miss reporting.

Recently, Lamar and ABS supported the US Department of

ABS/LAMAR MARINER SAFETY RESEARCH Transportation’s Maritime Administration in the development

INITIATIVE (MSRI) of two ASTM Guides to support more consistent injury and

The ABS/Lamar MSRI is a collaborative effort to create a large near miss reporting and recording. These can be used a building international database and online repository of maritime injury blocks for a more comprehensive and consistent international re- and close call (near miss) reports. The information is analyzed porting effort.

ASTM F3256-17 (Standard Guide for Near Miss Reporting and Recording) can be found by clicking: www.astm.org/Standards/F3256.htm

ASTM F3284-18 (Standard Guide for Injury Reporting and Recording) can be found by clicking: www.astm.org/Standards/F3284.htm

The American Club’s loss prevention products and services can be found by clicking: www.american-club.com/page/loss-prevention

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