Lessons learned
The Norwegian Maritime Authority regularly publishes lessons learned from marine incidents and accidents.
The Norwegian Maritime Authority regularly publishes lessons learned from marine incidents and accidents.
One of the most frequent personal injuries on board passenger-ships, are often falling or tripping while using stairs or ladders. Very little or no use of handrails at all, is in most cases the reason why people fall.
Many unwanted incidents, and groundings in particular, occur due to user errors or misunderstandings while using digital maps such as ECDIS. Both user errors and failure to update digital map systems may lead to critical and serious incidents.
The Norwegian Maritime Authority receives several accident reports where the listed cause is “fell asleep on watch”. In most cases, the crew do not suffer physical injury. However, vessels have been lost or sustained major material damage, and some accidents have caused environmental damage.
Despite an increased focus on safety and a general decline in the number of personal accidents in the fishing fleet, the Norwegian Maritime Authority (NMA) has noticed that serious personal accidents still happen in the trawler fleet.
The Norwegian Maritime Authority regularly receives reports on fires on fishing vessels, both on vessels in operation and vessels at berth.