From Compliance to Diligence: A Maritime Safety Perspective

This webinar aims to provide a general overview of maritime safety with a focus on how the legal concept of Due Diligence and academic principles on Safety Leadership can co-exist. A catastrophic accident which caused loss of nine lives, the criminal convictions of shipboard officers and the collapse of the port control tower will be used as case study. In the event of a large-scale accident, in order to deal with the increasing level of scrutiny by the courts and by an increasingly intolerant public opinion, both management and operators at the sharp end must be able to demonstrate that they have done everything possible to prevent it, by shifting the emphasis from compliance to diligence.