Workshop on Occupational Accidents

June 12, 2013

1 Turku University of Applied Sciences Pekka Räisänen

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

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European trends in OSH

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Occupational safety and health in the transport sector — An overview © European Agency for Safety and Health at Work, 2011

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Turku University of Applied Sciences Pekka Räisänen

Corresponds to about 10 accidents per million hours, 24 hours at risk

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

Size of Nordic-controlled fleets

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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)

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

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Comparison of published occupational accident data of four Nordic countries

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Räisänen, P. 2012. Some Uses of Accident Data in Maritime Occupational Safety. Turku University of Applied Sciences, to be published.

CAFE results: challenges of comparisons

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

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

Accident rate comparisons, work in progress

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Probably lower than this, work in progress

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Thank you for your attention!

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