Page No.: 47-54: Caught in numbers, lost in focus

Authors

  • Nippin Anand

Abstract

Study after study has been conducted on safety management without ever engaging critically with the term safety or examining how it became one with the science of management. 

Producing comprehensive accounts of all ‘unharmed’ and ‘uninjured’ events is mundane and resource-intensive. Instead, the alternative approach is to examine harm and injuries both potential and actual. What we get is ‘unsafety management’. 

If we regard management as a question of measure and control in order to allocate material and manpower, it follows that managing safety is a question of measuring and controlling unsafe events. But this approach has become problematic at all levels, from board room to engine room.

Published

2019-11-18

How to Cite

Anand, N. (2019). Page No.: 47-54: Caught in numbers, lost in focus. IIRE Journal of Maritime Research and Development, 3(2). Retrieved from https://ojsiire.com/index.php/IJMRD/article/view/127

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