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Near-Miss in Shipping: a Sign of Resilience or Vulnerability?

In addition to injuries, environmental pollution, and loss of goods, shipping accidents can cause significant supply chain disruptions and negatively impact the global economy. Effective organisational learning from adverse events could improve maritime safety and reduce the number of accidents. Shipping is a high-risk industry where a corrective approach that includes accident investigation and analysis is considered a tool for organisational learning. Therefore, most safety measures in shipping are responses to serious accidents. On the other hand, there is a proactive approach in which the reporting, investigation and analysis of near-misses, which could be considered precursors of accidents, can be a starting point for maritime safety improvements. Proactivity, resilience, and reliability are considered key elements of shipping organisations. Therefore, implementing a proactive system in shipping, such as Near-Miss Management Systems (NMMS), could improve maritime safety, prevent environmental pollution, and increase the resilience of the global supply chain. Since near-misses can be seen as a sign of both vulnerability and resilience, this paper proposes to define resilient and vulnerable near- misses. It also discusses the definition of near- miss and the use of near-miss reports as a tool for proactive, resilient, and reliable shipping, with a focus on learning from near-misses.

resilience ; maritime safety ; maritime transport ; accident

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