Safety at Sea Northern Periphery

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Safety at Sea Northern Periphery

• Application under consideration

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Safety at Sea Northern Periphery partners

• The Maritime and Coastguard Agency, Highlands
  Islands Special Transition Programme Area,
  Scotland
• Faeroese Maritime Authority, Faeroe Islands
• Danish Administration of Navigation
  Hydrography, Greenland
• Kystverket, Norway
• Icelandic Maritime Administration, Icelandic
  Coast Guard University of Iceland, Iceland

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Safety at Sea Northern Periphery work strands

• AIS in the Northern Periphery
• Attitudes to safety aboard fishing vessels
• Passenger ship emergency response
• Assessing future maritime safety topics
• Co-ordination with the Maritime Safety Umbrella
  Operation

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AIS in the Northern Periphery

• A supplement to traditional surveillance
• Improved SAR capabilities
• Improved shipping security
• Improved pre-emptive action against maritime
  pollution
• Information exchange
• Improved risk analysis

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AIS in the Northern Periphery

• Seminars to
• increase awareness of AIS and its potential for
  the Northern Periphery
• begin establishing local infrastructure
  partnerships
• Headed by the Royal Danish Administration of
  Navigation and Hydrography
• Partnered by the Norwegian Coastal Administration

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Attitudes to safety aboard fishing vessels

• Innovative project aimed at improving safety
  culture
• Questionnaire addressing (a) personal injury, (b)
  water ingress
• Two visits to each fishing vessel over two years
• Analysis and comparison between control and
  intervention conditions
• Scotland, Faeroes Iceland participating

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Passenger ship emergency response

• Ferries cruise ships in the Northern Periphery
• Contingency planning, training, and exercising of
  response procedures
• National international co-operation
• International seminar, Inverness, August 2006

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Passenger ship emergency response

• Seminar aims
• Consider passenger ship emergencies in the
  Northern Periphery
• Share information on response facilities, plans
  procedures
• Discuss capabilities
• Exercise contingency plans relationships at
  strategic tactical levels

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Passenger ship emergency response

• Post-exercise report to address key learning
  points propose improvements in the Northern
  Periphery
• Disseminate report widely in the emergency
  response community
• Develop guidelines on the handling of major
  maritime emergencies

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Safety at Sea Northern Periphery

• Assessing future maritime safety topics
• Project steering group
• Further development, new work
• Dissemination of lessons learned
• Co-ordination with the Maritime Safety Umbrella
  Operation
• Inter-project co-operation, networking liaison

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Safety at Sea Northern Periphery
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