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Russian Maritime Register of Shipping

N.A. Reshetov

Director General,

Russian Maritime Register

of Shipping

Quality Shipping: XXI Century Standard

Saint-Petersburg October 22, 2009

“System Approach to Safety: Development Trends and Priorities”

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Lloyd's Register – Fairplay

Russian Maritime Register of Shipping

Number of shipwrecks – 135 vessels Number of fatalities – 1108 persons

Accident rate (2008)

The total number of casualties – 119

percentage of shipwrecks – 0,1 % (world rate – 0,135 %)

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Accident rate (2008)

Diagram 1

Causes of accidents with the RS-classed ships in 2008 (%)

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Distribution of accidents by types and items of technical supervision (%)

Accident rate (2008)Diagram 2

41,63

16,723,73

2,02

12,14

4,23

1,93

0,765,08

11,75Hull

Main mac hinery

Aux iliary mac hinery

E lec tric equipment

S hafting

P ropellers

S teering gear

Anc hor arrangements

S hipwrec ks

Others

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Accident rate (2004 – 2008)

Diagram 3

Distribution of accidents by age categories (%)

0

2

4

6

8

10

12

14

0-5 6-10 11-15 16-20 21-25 more than 25

2008

2007

2006

2005

2004

Age

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Human factor

relative constancy of human factor percentage in the general list of causes of accidents and hazardous situations for many years

investigations concerning the human factor are conducted quite separately, whereas work on merchant fleet still depends on the results of these investigations to a very little degree

it is difficult, if at all possible, to change the human nature by external interference, even with the best intentions

the dependence between crew number reduction and the growth of the human factor influence on safety, thereby provoked

poor quality of instructions and guidelines

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Diagram 4

Distribution of deficiencies by categories in 2003 – 2008 (%)

Statistics of deficiencies (2003 – 2008)

15 General safety

1 ISPS

1  Transportation of goods

18   Fire protection

 5  Radio equipment

10 Life-saving appliances

1 Signal means

1 Ship certificates

8 Maritime safety

7 Load Line

6 MARPOL 73/78

14 Machinery

13 ISM Code

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ISM Code

multitude of documents, overload with papers and information misjudgment of the situation during PSC inspections on vessels staying

in port for a short period of time filling-in of checklists and performing other routine procedures

prescribed by the ISM Code frequent inspections and audits, including those on the part of the

company the absence of proper ship-to-shore feedback as well as of correct and

prompt response to the crew’s proposals on the part of the company or of their formal review

Revision of the Code!?

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ISM Code (2008)

Diagram 5

Distribution of non-conformities under the ISM Code

Para 8 Emergency preparedness

Para 10 Maintenance

Para 11 Documentation

Para 1 General

Para 13 Certification, verification and

control

Para 4 Designated person

Para 2 Policy

Para 12 Verification, review and

evaluation

Para 3 Company responsibility and

authority

Para 5 Master’s responsibility and

authority

Para 9 Reports on non-conformities

Para 6 Resources and personnel

Para 7 Plans for shipboard

operations

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ISM Code

Seminar“Shipping Company: its Mission, Responsibility and Management Efficiency. Maritime Labour

Convention”

Regional seminars in Murmansk, Novorossiysk,

Astrakhan and Vladivostok

Conformity Mark«Efficient Safety Management»

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System approach a system consists of INDEPENDENT

elements

a system is described from the holistic point of view

hierarchy

structure-analysis of relations among elements

a system may be described by a number of models

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