Integrating Elements of Modern Technology into Maritime Safety

A majority of the accidents on board a ship occurs due to poor knowledge of safety regulations or carelessness towards the same. As a remedy, this paper will propose ideas that include digitalization of safety procedures so as to realize the powers of visual perception of information over a paper-based one, a unique Safety Wear and Equipment Identification system and pre-board training using Virtual Reality. Interactive, touch-screen monitors, the size of usual tablets will be affixed to the walls of numerous rooms and spaces across the ship (e.g.: engine room) that will revolutionize the way safety norms are implemented. They will also have cameras, affixed. Object-recognition software, paired with these cameras will scan the image of the person, starting a task, to ensure that he/she has every necessary safety wear/equipment/tool on them, specific to the task that they are performing. Unless verified by the software, a person cannot start the job. There’s a study of how this software helps to fulfil International Safety Management (ISM) CODE to a new level and how using it can help shipping companies.