Managing Risks and Safety of Ships: The Domestic Shipping Experience VI

CONCLUSION

With the quality of our crew caused by the brain drain phenomena and the ship-owners economic limitation through low crew salary, it is just imperative that we look for other cheaper alternatives that will help us implement the safety systems. Among the controls that we need to implement that will lead the above hazards effect into as low as reasonably practicable (alarp) are:

a. Provide economical but simple and tailor fit systems that the crew and ship-owners personnel can easily implement and understood.

i. Risk Assessment Systems
ii. Safety Management Systems
iii. Planned Maintenance Systems

b. Use a culture to implement another culture. That is using macho attitude of Filipinos in implementing safety culture.

iv. Provide Key Performance Indices
v. Incentive Systems

c. Provide over and above the Administration’s required trainings