A Critical Analysis of the International and Canadian Regulations and Strategies for Managing Seafarers’ Fatigue and its Associated Risks in the International Maritime Sector
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This evidence-based study aims to ascertain the adequacies of the existing regulations and strategies, including the Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping for Seafarers and Maritime Labour Convention 2006, for managing and preventing seafarers’ fatigue in the international maritime sector, including Canada. Maritime accidents having seafarers’ fatigue as a causal factor often result in huge capital loss, insurance and property damages issues, health consequences, environmental pollution and property damages, and risks and liabilities to the global supply chain. These issues justify the value of this current project. This study used four different review approaches as sources of evidence to achieve its aim. The first is a systematic review of literature identifying the prevalence of seafarers’ fatigue as a causal factor of maritime accidents. Second, a systematic review of over 2000 maritime accident investigation reports from the maritime accident investigation bureaus of Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Denmark, to identify the prevalence of seafarers’ fatigue as a causal factor of maritime accidents. The third approach critically analyses the adequacy of the existing international regulations and strategies for managing and preventing seafarers’ fatigue. Fourth, a comparative review of the international regulations and the Marine Personnel Regulations for managing and preventing seafarers’ fatigue in international and Canadian maritime sectors. The recommendations from this study’s findings are to guide the Canadian and International maritime regulatory bodies, including the International Maritime Organization and International Labour Organization, among others, on amending the existing Canadian and international regulations relevant to managing and preventing seafarers’ fatigue to ensure their adequacy.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.066 | 0.170 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.021 | 0.018 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.010 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".