Cristin-resultat-ID: 1340091
Sist endret: 27. november 2017, 20:52
NVI-rapporteringsår: 2016
Resultat
Vitenskapelig artikkel
2016

One size fits all? Safety management regulation of ship accidents and personal injuries

Bidragsytere:
  • Kristine Vedal Størkersen
  • Stian Antonsen og
  • Trond Kongsvik

Tidsskrift

Journal of Risk Research
ISSN 1366-9877
e-ISSN 1466-4461
NVI-nivå 1

Om resultatet

Vitenskapelig artikkel
Publiseringsår: 2016
Publisert online: 2016
Trykket: 2017
Volum: 20
Hefte: 9
Sider: 1154 - 1172
Open Access

Importkilder

Scopus-ID: 2-s2.0-84959065559

Beskrivelse Beskrivelse

Tittel

One size fits all? Safety management regulation of ship accidents and personal injuries

Sammendrag

Safety management regulation is an important supplement to market forces to establish a sufficient safety level in high-risk industries. The accident statistics in Norwegian maritime passenger transportation display a paradox: personal injuries have decreased while ship accidents have increased in the period during which safety management has been regulated (the International Safety Management Code was effectuated in the late 1990s). We interview regulators, shipping company management, and crewmembers about their practices and opinions regarding safety management regulation and use these data to explore how this regulation influences safety management practices to prevent different types of accidents. This study underlines earlier research showing that regulation serves to ‘raise the bar’ by heightening the industry levels of safety investments and organizational safety awareness. In addition, our results suggest that safety management regulation in maritime transportation is mostly effective for preventing personal injuries in cases in which the personal have sufficient time and resources available, and the procedures are consistent with seafarers’ professional values. For ship accidents, such as groundings, other causal factors come into play. We find that the negative consequences of regulation (proceduralization) in particular influence the performance of safety-critical tasks, such as navigation. This may explain why personal injuries have decreased while ship accident frequencies have continued to increase in spite of the regulations aimed at improving safety.

Bidragsytere

Kristine Vedal Størkersen

  • Tilknyttet:
    Forfatter
    ved Studio Apertura ved NTNU Samfunnsforskning AS

Stian Antonsen

  • Tilknyttet:
    Forfatter
    ved Software Engineering, Safety and Security ved SINTEF AS

Trond Øystein Kongsvik

Bidragsyterens navn vises på dette resultatet som Trond Kongsvik
  • Tilknyttet:
    Forfatter
    ved Studio Apertura ved NTNU Samfunnsforskning AS
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