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http://dx.doi.org/10.7837/kosomes.2013.19.5.503

Study on Improving Safety Cultures by Analysing Behavior Characteristics of Korean Seafarers  

Kim, Young-Mo (Korea Institute of Maritime and Fisheries Technology)
Publication Information
Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Environment & Safety / v.19, no.5, 2013 , pp. 503-510 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study aims to propose safety culture design to ease to find out and control behavior characteristics of Korean seafarers. By empirical research of 377 Korean seafarers, the result revealed that significant characteristic of Korean seafarers was "affection to others" and custom of Confucianism affected Korean maritime society prevalently. But there were no significant differences between groups, such as rank, age, gender and sailing route with vessel type except educational background. Furthermore, this study concluded that positive reinforcement was more useful than negative reinforcement to promote safety operation of vessels. Regarding the vessel's safety management, the fact that means for vessel's safety management are linked only to the levels of educational background suggests that the efficiency of vessel's safety operation would be achieved by introducing suitable safety management system depending on the level of educational background.
Keywords
Seafarer; Safety; Culture; Behavior characteristic; Reinforcement; Human error; Safety management system;
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