Maritime modern technology as well as danger avoidance leader, Prevention at Sea has actually put together a board of 15 maritime safety and security heavyweights to examine as well as improve its Human Component Maritime Enhancement Tool (H.EL.M.E.T.), which has actually been used by the market given that 2016.

The inaugural two-day board conference, called HELMET-com, satisfied this month in Larnaca,Cyprus Chaired by Captain Nikiteas, DPA/ CSO/ HSQE Manager, Maran Dry of Angelicoussis Group, the board discovered exactly how a human-centred danger analysis method can enhance a secure service society in delivery.

Not just influencing human life as well as the atmosphere, significant maritime cases additionally result in off works with, penalties, non-conformances as well as apprehensions. It is extensively identified that most of these cases are straight or indirectly brought on by human mistake.

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Despite the fostering of several market efforts, guidelines as well as treatments, audit results evaluated by Prevention at Sea as well as the Centre of Excellence in Risk as well as Decision Sciences of the European University in Cyprus (CERIDES) reveals that the very early caution signals of harmful methods are not being discovered. This straight concessions risk-free fleet procedures, influences online reputation, as well as results in economic losses.

Developed by Prevention at Sea with input from CERIDES, H.EL.M.E.T. takes a triangular aggressive technique, with its danger analysis method developed to take a human-centric technique– made to sustain delivery business in attaining safety and security quality as well as continual enhancement. It presents Key Risk Indicators (KRIs), a brand-new as well as special technique of danger discovery based upon professional experience as well as input, ideal methods, as well as evaluation of previous information which match the market’s well well-known KPIs.

Committee participants consist of professionals standing for global organisations, the market as well as academic community, from throughout the globe, being experts in danger analysis, interactions as well as monitoring system requirements. The board intends to sustain the continual enhancement of H.EL.M.E.T. by sharing field-specific experience, lessons found out, as well as ideas on brand-new arising threats that ought to be thought about. H.EL.M.E.T. is additionally sustained by the Cyprus Shipping Deputy Ministry.

Chairman, Captain Nikiteas, DPA/ CSO/ HSQE Manager, Maran Dry of Angelicoussis Group, commented: “Conducting shipping business safely remains at the very core of our industry and as we head into an unprecedented phase of change, never has it been so important. We must alter the current ‘tick box’ culture, with greater emphasis on a proactive approach to risk assessment which puts people at the centre, plus an awareness of the need for – and value of – guidance from experts. We applaud Prevention at Sea’s vision of re-establishing a genuine, industry-wide commitment to “safety first” as well as are thrilled to collaborate, as a board of safety and security professionals from both the market as well as academic community, to remain to create the H.EL.M.E.T method.”

With the purpose of identifying ineffective functional methods at a beginning, prior to they can rise right into significant cases, H.EL.M.E.T gives a basic, functional as well as efficient method for danger analysis. With no demand for the intro of facility systems as well as treatments, it gives an aggressive methods of determining harmful acts as well as problems, minimizing danger, as well as preventing hold-ups, apprehensions, damages, fines as well as the price of being off-hire. Adoption additionally safeguards versus the influence of future danger analysis needs, making certain that delivery business are sustaining staff members in taking the right choices at the correct time.

With many brand-new guidelines as well as needs to emulate, seafarers as well as delivery business are battling to deal. Those onboard as well as onto land require helpful support from professionals allowing comprehensive expertise of needs, in addition to the very early discovery of harmful methods. Guided by the HELMET-com, Prevention at Sea will certainly launch the exercise of modern technology as well as information evaluation to discover unusual patterns quicker, allowing an also much faster action to any kind of problems determined.

Petros Achtypis, Chief Executive Officer, Prevention at Sea, commented: “When it comes to risk assessments, the maritime industry needs to go beyond the checklist and also factor in the human element. With H.EL.M.E.T we’ve created a standardised methodology which proactively detects clear signals that correspond to unsafe behaviours or situations before they can escalate and cause real problems.”

He wrapped up: “H.EL.M.E.T has been central to our risk assessments for some time. However, to critically evaluate the tool and deliver on our philosophy of continuous improvement, we invited a selection of respected maritime industry experts to work with us to enhance the methodology. Recognition of its industry-wide potential from such knowledgeable and respected safety experts is both exciting and reassuring for us, as we continue to deliver on our vision for a safer, smarter shipping industry. Indeed our ambition is that H.EL.M.E.T could one day represent the industry standard.”

HELMET-com will certainly fulfill each year as well as communicate throughout the year.