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You can find all of the articles that CHIRP Maritime have produced, and there is the ability to search for any particular word , or via categories based upon causal effect using James Reason’s Latent Failures and the MCA’s The Human Element. The search engine allows for a combination of word search and category / categories.

In addition, all of the archive editions of Maritime FEEDBACK may be found from the main menu, as can CHIRP Maritime Videos, Newsletters, and the CHIRP Annual Digest. Maritime FEEDBACK is now available in Chinese, Filipino and Portuguese, and the latest edition may be found under the newsletter tab on the main menu. A new addition to our material is a Reference Library which is updated monthly. This contains incident reports, safety alerts and advice from many maritime sources. Finally there are links to enable you to subscribe to Maritime Feedback, and to submit a report to CHIRP Maritime.

All of the material on this website may be reproduced without any permissions from CHIRP being required.

However, a short note to mail@chirp.co.uk, our email address for generic correspondence, would be useful in order for CHIRP to be able to aware of interest.

Press Release

CHIRP has published the 2019 edition of our Annual Digest. It contains articles that CHIRP has published in FEEDBACK magazines 54 to 57.

The PDF may also be downloaded from the Front Page of the website or our Annual Digest section.

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Links to Insight Articles are also available from our publications section under 2019 Insight Articles.

Topics include Human factors, Deck Safety, Engineering Technical & Environment, Pilot Boarding & Pilotage, Collision Regulations & Navigation,

Yachts Tugs Fishing & Recreation, and Health.

ISSUE No. 58

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CHIRP Maritime FEEDBACK
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CHIRP and UCL have released "Critical Decision Making" the 2nd PDF booklet in our decision making series.

It is accompanied by a video which may be viewed from the home page of the website (below) or in our videos section.

Both the PDF and video links are also available from our publications section under 2019 Insight Articles

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A report recently received by CHIRP Maritime

A vessel expected the Pilot to board with this dangerous ladder

An appalling lack of seamanship, safety culture and a complete disregard for the safety of a fellow mariner

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Latest Articles

Drug abuse on fishing vessels
10th March 2020
Outline: CHIRP has received two reports from official sources highlighting the use of drugs on board commercial fishing vessels. &
Fatigue in the harbour towage sector
10th March 2020
Outline: The following report was received in response to the request in Maritime FEEDBACK 56 for seafarers with experience of
When is a ship not a ship?
10th March 2020
Outline: A report was received from an engineer, with 10 years’ experience on the same vessel, who was concerned about

Media – Latest Feedback Magazine, (Issue number 58), and the 2019 CHIRP Maritime Annual Digest. Click on either image to read as a PDF

 CHIRP is pleased to publish Maritime FEEDBACK issue number 58. This issue, we focus upon reported drug abuse in the fishing sector. The issue also contains a variety of other topics and we are grateful to all of our reporters. We also revisited topic of fatigue, this time in the towage sector. Other material covers the loss of a crane load during cargo operations, the suitability of PPE for female seafarers, collision regulation issues, and pilot ladder failings. As always we hope that you enjoy this edition of FEEDBACK and we welcome any comment with respect to the content. The issue also contains a variety of other topics and we are grateful to all of our reporters.

CHIRP has published the 2019 edition of our Annual Digest. The Digest contains articles that CHIRP has published in FEEDBACK magazines 54 through to 57, and  these have been separated into  sections -  Human factors, Deck Safety, Engineering Technical & Environment, Pilot Boarding & Pilotage, Collision Regulations & Navigation, Yachts Tugs Fishing & Recreation, and Health. In addition there are several Insight articles included which CHIRP published last year with the assistance of members of the CHIRP Maritime Advisory Board. Further details may be found on the Annual Digest and Publications pages of this website. Click on the picture of the front cover to open a downloadable PDF copy of the Digest. We hope that enjoy reading this  latest Digest - we encourage feedback and comment as to any of the content in order to widen the debate and to promulgate learnings to the whole maritime sector. Indivdual copies of the Digest are being distributed worldwide including every member state of the International Maritime Organization.