1 Russian Maritime Register of Shipping N.A. Reshetov Director General, Russian Maritime Register of Shipping Quality Shipping: XXI Century Standard Saint-Petersburg October 22, 2009 “System Approach to Safety: Development Trends and Priorities”

XII International Seminar “Quality Shipping: XXI Century Standard" 2 Lloyd's Register – Fairplay Russian Maritime Register of Shipping Number of shipwrecks – 135 vessels Number of fatalities – 1108 persons Accident rate (2008) The total number of casualties – 119 percentage of shipwrecks – 0,1 % (world rate – 0,135 %)

XII International Seminar “Quality Shipping: XXI Century Standard" 3 Accident rate (2008) Diagram 1 Causes of accidents with the RS-classed ships in 2008 (%)

XII International Seminar “Quality Shipping: XXI Century Standard" 4 Distribution of accidents by types and items of technical supervision (%) Accident rate (2008) Diagram 2

XII International Seminar “Quality Shipping: XXI Century Standard" 5 Accident rate (2004 – 2008) Diagram 3 Distribution of accidents by age categories (%) Age

XII International Seminar “Quality Shipping: XXI Century Standard" 6 Human factor relative constancy of human factor percentage in the general list of causes of accidents and hazardous situations for many years investigations concerning the human factor are conducted quite separately, whereas work on merchant fleet still depends on the results of these investigations to a very little degree it is difficult, if at all possible, to change the human nature by external interference, even with the best intentions the dependence between crew number reduction and the growth of the human factor influence on safety, thereby provoked poor quality of instructions and guidelines

XII International Seminar “Quality Shipping: XXI Century Standard" 7 Diagram 4 Distribution of deficiencies by categories in 2003 – 2008 (%) Statistics of deficiencies (2003 – 2008) 15 General safety 1 ISPS 1 Transportation of goods 18 Fire protection 5 Radio equipment 10 Life-saving appliances 1 Signal means 1 Ship certificates 8 Maritime safety 7 Load Line 6 MARPOL 73/78 14 Machinery 13 ISM Code

XII International Seminar “Quality Shipping: XXI Century Standard" 8 ISM Code multitude of documents, overload with papers and information misjudgment of the situation during PSC inspections on vessels staying in port for a short period of time filling-in of checklists and performing other routine procedures prescribed by the ISM Code frequent inspections and audits, including those on the part of the company the absence of proper ship-to-shore feedback as well as of correct and prompt response to the crew’s proposals on the part of the company or of their formal review Revision of the Code!?

XII International Seminar “Quality Shipping: XXI Century Standard" 9 ISM Code (2008) Diagram 5 Distribution of non-conformities under the ISM Code Para 8 Emergency preparedness Para 10Maintenance Para 11Documentation Para 1General Para 13Certification, verification and control Para 4Designated person Para 2Policy Para 12Verification, review and evaluation Para 3Company responsibility and authority Para 5Master’s responsibility and authority Para 9Reports on non-conformities Para 6Resources and personnel Para 7Plans for shipboard operations

XII International Seminar “Quality Shipping: XXI Century Standard" 10 ISM Code Seminar “ Shipping Company: its Mission, Responsibility and Management Efficiency. Maritime Labour Convention ” Regional seminars in Murmansk, Novorossiysk, Astrakhan and Vladivostok Conformity Mark «Efficient Safety Management»

XII International Seminar “Quality Shipping: XXI Century Standard" 11 System approach a system consists of INDEPENDENT elements a system is described from the holistic point of view hierarchy structure-analysis of relations among elements a system may be described by a number of models

XII International Seminar “Quality Shipping: XXI Century Standard" 12 Thank you for attention!