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1 Workshop on Occupational Accidents June 12,

2 Workshop topics Introductions Harri Halme: MLC 2006 improves occupational safety and health Pekka s workshop slides incl. proposal for Nordic statistics Kevin McSweeney s slides on statistics at a suitable moment

3 European trends in OSH? Corresponds to about 10 accidents per million hours, 24 hours at risk Occupational safety and health in the transport sector An overview European Agency for Safety and Health at Work,

4 Comparisons between Nordic countries Currently, comparing reported maritime occupational accident statistics is difficult Differences are typical in: What is an occupational accident /reportable vs. insurance data/ What is the time at risk onboard /true vs. used in statistics/ Sizes and types of ships that are included in each statistics There is a need for a Nordic baseline for benchmarking in many fields of shipping Our project tries to find the common features and will recommend a joint format for statistics

5 Size of Nordic-controlled fleets Relative size of the merchant fleets in four Nordic countries (based on gross tonnages of national and International Register fleets, the data is from (Danish Maritime Administration 2011) 5

6 Why? Safety improvement is possible An example: Safety Managers of some European Shipyards formed a Safety Interest Group Learning from what is good from others Learning from others mistakes Development by benchmarking

10 CAFE results: challenges of comparisons Comparison of published occupational accident data of four Nordic countries 120 % 100 % Relative rate of accidents 80 % 60 % 40 % Denmark Finland Sw eden Norw ay 20 % 0 % Year Räisänen, P Some Uses of Accident Data in Maritime Occupational Safety. Turku University of Applied Sciences, to be published. 10

11 Workshop task: What data to use Currently, comparing reported maritime occupational accident statistics is difficult Differences are typical in: What is an occupational accident /reportable vs. insurance data/ What is the time at risk onboard /true vs. used in statistics/ Sizes and types of ships that are included in each statistics

12 Proposal to common representation of statistics in Nordic countries Lost Time Incidents taken from insurance data instead of self-reporting Time at risk taken from ships safe manning certificate or their known manning (much better), and 24 hours onboard

13 Accident rate comparisons, work in progress Probably lower than this, work in progress

14 Occupational accidents on cargo vessels NUMBER OF WORK ACCIDENTS ONBOARD PER MILLION WORKHOURS Example Shipping Cargo traffic Number of accidents per million hours (LTIF) True salaried hours Example Shipping All cargo ships 10 0 Deck/engine officers Example Shipping Deck/engine personnel Example Shipping Galley personnel Example Shipping Actual participant statistics are confidential this is an example of the method only

15 Graphs for personnel groups NUMBER OF WORK ACCIDENTS PER MILLION WORKING HOURS ONBOARD Example Line Number of accidents per million hours (LTIF) Example Line All passenger vessels 0 Shop assistants/sales personnel Example Line Deck/engine officers Example Line Deck and engine personnel Example Line Security personnel Example Line Galley personnel Example Line Waiters Example Line Cabin attendants Example Line Cruise and program hosts Example Line Actual participant statistics are confidential this is an example of the method only

16 Development graphs for each personnel group YEARLY WORK ACCIDENTS PER MILLION WORKING HOURS ONBOARD Security personnel Example Line Number of accidents per million hours (LTIF) NOTE THAT THE SCALE IS DIFFERENT THAN IN THE OTH GRAPHS Year Work accidents on all passenger vessels Security personnel Example Line Actual participant statistics are confidential this is an example of the method only

17 Thank you for your attention! Jouko Langen/vastavalo.fi 17

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