An Empirical Study on Seafarers of Work Improvements for Safety

Abstract

It is very important to improve the working condition of a ship by the direct involvement of crew to raise the efficiency of work and to prevent the work accidents. ILO (International Labour Organization) adopted ILO guidelines on Occupational Safety and Health management systems (ILO-OSH 2001), which aim at providing a practical instrument for policy and work place to improve safety and health at work. WISE (Work Improvements Small Enterprises) training method which is a participatory action oriented training tool has been developed by the support of ILO, and proposes a model guideline to implement the action-oriented, systematic approach to improving safety on board. With the collaboration of crews of Taisei Maru of Institute for Sea Training, we conducted the two-day WISE training. Such steps of the activities are as follows; 1. A lecture of outline of the group participatory risk improvement activities, 2. Look around the working and living place on the whole ship with action checklist exercise, 3. Group discussion to propose practical improvements, learning the successful examples, 4. Evaluation of effectiveness of these tools.