A Study on the Analysis of Domestic Shipboard Disaster

Jang, Seok-Ki; Yang, Weon-Jae; Park, Gyei-Kark; Lee, Chang-Hee; Nam, Jeong-Gil; Cheon, Dae-Il

Journal of Navigation and Port Research 2002;26(3):329-336.
Published online August 31, 2002.

5년간(’95~’99년)국내의 선원재해 현황에 관한 연구

장석기, 양원재, 박계각, 이창희, 남정길, 천대일

A Study on the Analysis of Domestic Shipboard Disaster

Seok-Ki Jang, Weon-Jae Yang, Gyei-Kark Park, Chang-Hee Lee, Jeong-Gil Nam, Dae-Il Cheon

Abstract

Recently, in the whole fields of industry including shipping business, the conception and importance of Human Factor is very highly and frequently emphasized. But the domestic crew disaster including injury and illness in our shipping business shows higher accident rate than other shipping countries. Therefore the developing of measures to prevent/reduce the accident is highly required as the marine accident including crew disaster causes enormous loss of property and human life in size and scale. But, because the domestic data regarding the crew accident are relatively insufficient and rare, the developing of those measures has many difficulties. Therefore, this study is to make the concerning data for the useful reference by showing the trend and current situation of crew accidents, assorted by the crew’s rank, type of the accident, injured part of the body, cause of the accident, type of ships and type of the works when the accident occurred, by using the each ocean-going shipping company’s recent 5 years(’95~’99) data in korea.

Key Words: Domestic crew disaster;Marine accident;Human Error;Shipboard labour