Accidents and incidents may never be totally avoided, but their frequency can perhaps be reduced significantly.
One way to understand why incidents occur, and as a consequence what can be done to prevent them happening again, is to learn from the mistakes of others.
North of England P&I deals with thousands of claims involving accidents and incidents every year. Selected ones are used for case studies - Signals Experiences - from which the entire Membership can learn useful lessons. Each study is based on an actual incident, accident or claim, but is written so that the identities of the actual ships, companies or people involved are not revealed.
There are three categories of incidents that form the case subjects.
Each case study is kept brief and to the point, and examines what happened, what went wrong and, most important of all, what lessons can be learnt so that steps can be taken to ensure that it does not happen to us!
The case studies are drawn from various sources such as claim files, the Nautical Institute's Marine Accident Reporting Scheme (MARS) reports, the reports of the United Kingdom's Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB).
Members and other readers of Signals are encouraged to submit their own "experiences" for possible inclusion as a case study. Please send these to North of England's loss prevention department.