NTSB Report Details Lessons Learned from 27 Major Maritime Accidents
The National Transporation Safety Board has actually launched a magazine outlining lessons gained from 27 significant, marine mishaps entailing death, injuries and also home damages.
The yearly magazine, referred to as the Safer Seas Digest, is a compendium of the aquatic crash records that the firm embraced or released throughout fiscal year 2016. The NTSB claims the 68-page Safer Seas Digest 2016 is planned to give info that can aid sailors at the deckplate degree protect against future mishaps, and also, can aid maritime sector C-suites develop and also suffer a society of security mixed-up.
The lessons found out in the Safer Seas Digest 2016 are highlighted in 10 classifications consisting of Standard Maintenance and also Repair Procedures, Operational Testing Procedures, Operating in Strong Currents, Familiarization with Local Recommendations, Bridge Resource Management, Safety Equipment and also Access to High-Risk Spaces The continuing to be 3 classifications– Distraction, Fatigue, and also Use of Medication While Operating Vessels– connect to concerns on the NTSB’s Most Wanted List of Transportation Safety Improvements, highlighting the multi-modal nature of these dangers to transport security.
“A safe maritime transportation system is critical to the vitality of the U.S. economy,” claimed NTSBActing Chairman Robert Sumwalt “According to NOAA, more than $1.5 trillion of cargo transited U.S. seaports in 2016. Reducing the frequency and severity of maritime accidents serves the national interest and publishing the Safer Seas Digest helps reach this goal.”
The Safer Seas Digest 2016, which is offered in a digital version, supplies sailors with web links from the absorb’s situation recaps fully records and also associated papers of the examinations on the NTSB’s site, offering sailors accessibility to the total body of job of the NTSB’s Office of Marine Safety.
The NTSB’s Office of Marine Safety examines significant aquatic casualties in the accessible waters of the united state and also mishaps entailing united state flagged vessels worldwide.
