Local management and its impact on safety culture and safety
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This paper addresses safety culture on tankers and bulk carriers and which factors affect the
safety culture onboard vessels. The empirical setting for the study is the Norwegian shipping industry. Safety
management is a challenging issue within shipping for several reasons. First of all, life and work onboard a vessel
is a 24 hour activity and the crew has few possibilities of interacting with the surrounding society. Secondly
the geographical distance between the on-shore organization and the vessel may affect both the quality of those
systems and plans developed on shore and their implementation on the vessels. The ship management is thus
identified as a key factor to a sound safety culture along with the on shore crewing strategy.