Title: MARITIME ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION: A WAY FOR THE OPTIMIZATION
OF MARITIME EDUCATION AND TRAINING
R. Marí Master Mariner and Marine Science Doctor Degree,
Polithecnical University of Catalonia, Spain
ABSTRACT
Training cannot be detached from the results obtained from the
investigation and analysis of accidents, the incorporation of new technologies, the
current organizational plans of entrepreneurial management and the work aboard, which
coincide with the present real situation and the one indicated by the trends with
projection in the immediate future. The analysis of incidences permits to improve future
work procedures eliminating those aspects that disturbed its accomplishment before, and
taking advantage of that knowledge for its application in formative blocks, specific of
such risk activities. Any task identified in the map of risks obtained from analysis and
investigation, and therefore, carrying a meaningful potential of producing an accident
will have to be treated previously, considering the conditions and circumstances of the
environment (space and physical conditions present), the work elements necessary to
accomplish the operation (engines and tools), the equipment considered sufficient and
minimal, taking into account the man-machine relationship and the accomplishment of work,
and finally the personal protective equipment that, in the last analysis could provide
people safety when the planning and coordination of actions are insufficient or defective.
KEYWORDS: Accident investigation, causes tree, map of risks, training,
regulations.
INTRODUCTION
This paper intends to evidence a justified route of why and how we can
advance significantly in the training profitability and in the preventive optimization of
accidents, determining the existing relationship between both.
The topic will be approached from the accident by fire aboard,
considering that this is one of the most complex cases due to the numerous variables than
condition it and so, it is easier to extrapole to the whole typology of maritime accidents
obtaining the same efficiency.
An important factor contributing to the risk in any industrial activity
is the poor instruction of the people that carry it out. The topic of training in safety
matters, applied to most professional activities always results easy to comment, since it
can be summarized in very few and simple words, going from the testimonial to the
insufficient.
