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Heiwa Co
assists shipowners, charterers, underwriters and
administrations with ship safety, projects and ship
management audits. Heiwa Co
- Anders
Björkman |
Safety is the probability of no accident, thus a technical, economical and human matter. High safety at sea starts with good ship structural design, good arrangements to ensure watertightness, easy to use procedures, equipment and means to operate the ship and to evacuate crew and passengers in an accident to minimize effects of human errors. Safety at sea is then a human question - to keep up the good arrangements and to follow the procedures. The cost of high technical safety is small - it is just to get the arrangements right from the beginning, e.g. theCoulombi Egg tanker. Keep it Simple, KIS, and you save money and improve safety! Right arrangements then simplifies for the ship's crew to maintain high safety. Heiwa Co has a lot of experience in these important fields of ship design and operation incl. crew training and motivation. Different ships are subject to different risks. Fishing vessels seem to be subject to the highest risks at sea - external weathertight doors may be open when fishing in severe weathers and may lead to flooding the inside spaces and sinking. Fishing vessels should therefore have extra, internal, weathertight doors to ensure sufficient bouyancy in the superstructure and deck house to survive.
Safety is not just rules! Safety is also all new facts about past accidents that surface long after the accident, which many administrations tend to neglect. Thus Heiwa Co investigates all new facts about past accidents to learn from them. You can never learn too little from an old accident, thus the Titanic accident 1912 is still of interest. And this is the reason for the Heiwa Co interest in the
Anders Björkman
The managing director of Heiwa Co is Anders Björkman, M.Sc. Naval Architect and Marine Engineer, with more than 30 years experience of tanker and ferry design, construction and operations. Mr. Bjorkman has been a delegate to the IMO for various national administrations and one NGO and has been been a speaker at various Safety at Sea conferences. Mr. Bjorkman holds several patents concerned with ship safety.
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