This can be seen on a daily basis when attending many out-side subcontractors. They are all able to produce great material at the time of an initial Audit (within the bubble), but when it comes to actual onsite maintained safety and quality culture this is where the bubble deflates and non-compliance creeps in and when accidents happen. The pressure of Production Schedule verses following HSE standards is always a conflict on a daily basis and puts pressure on the Bubble of Compliance.
While we commend KOSHIPA and KSSS for the latest initiatives, unless there is a shift in cultural awareness of SAFETY the implementation of KSSS standards will struggle to be adapted.
It will just be another
Bubble of Compliance which will deflate when all the current team members move on to other projects or leave Korea. Also, more
shipowners need to be made aware of KSSS and start to include this as a baseline standard within their Shipbuilding Contracts. A first step to achieving this is for the shipyards to include KSSS as their standard HSE policy or at least make potential clients aware of the “new common standard”.
Ship owners also need to realize that they too have a responsibility to ‘help’ maintain a positive safety culture within Korean Shipbuilding, by providing positive safety leadership for their Site Teams and employing dedicated safety professionals within their teams.
In
this way, a ‘Bubble of Compliance’ can be developed and maintained on a Project by Project basis.
With all the many recent financial cutbacks, we have seen less HSE professionals employed in the Commercial Shipping Site Teams. Many commercial owners do
not see the huge benefits of a positive HSE culture within the Site Team to influence shipyard production quality. HSE Staff in a Site Team are considered as a ‘COST’. This lack of HSE awareness on their part, in my opinion, is adversely affecting the positive efforts of others and lack of consistency is confusing to the shipyards.
HSE standards in Korean Shipyards have in recent years, not been good, with too many major incidents and loss of life.
It is my hope that KOSIPA and KSSS can redress these recent poor trends and that Korean Shipbuilding can re-establish itself back into top position in global shipbuilding. We must all work together to achieve this.
Please see the following link to KSSS:
ksss.koshipa.or.kr
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