Professor Osman Turan wins European senior researcher award in waterborne transportA Strathclyde professor has won a prestigious European award for his research to improve safety in marine transport.Professor Osman Turan of the Department of Naval Architecture, Ocean and Marine Engineering, was presented with the Transport Research Arena VISION senior researcher award in recognition of his contribution to EU research and in particular the SEAHORSE project.Organised by the European Commission and open to all European-funded projects, the only award given under the waterborne transport category and recognises overall achievement and impact generated by SEAHORSE project which is down to the excellent teamwork by the SEAHORSE consortium and individual partner’s contributions to the project.The SEAHORSE project – Safety Enhancements in transport by Achieving Human Orientated Resilient Shipping Environment – takes the rigorous standards of the aviation industry and seeks to influence best practice in commercial shipping.The project, funded through the EU’s 7the Framework Programme, brought together 13 leading academic, industrial and professional partners from nine European countries – includes Scottish ferry operator Caledonian MacBrayne (CalMac) and world-leading classification society Lloyd’s Register.Based on the concept of resilience, which acknowledges that things can go wrong but that systems should be able to cope with problems without compromising safety, the project developed and established straightforward systems to ensure best levels of safety in a range of areas, from safety culture, checklists and human factors training to standardised operating procedures.Professor Turan, the overall coordinator of SEAHORSE, said: “This award is wonderful recognition for all of the team members who collaborated on this innovative project which is already having an impact on the maritime sector.”The project captured, for the first time in the maritime sector, workarounds performed in on-board shipping operations instead of following the Standard Operating Procedures (SOP). Strathclyde developed a novel online Procedure Improvement System which attracted a lot interest, not only from the maritime sector but also from the aviation sector. SEAHORSE methodologies and tools are being implemented and utilised by a number of shipping companies on over 150 ships ranging from ferries, container ships, offshore heavy lifting vessels, LNG, oil, chemical tankers, bulk carriers as well as cruise ships. For example, CalMac Ferries ltd, a partner in SEAHORSE project for the first time in the maritime sector have developed a departure and pre-arrival checklist based on Airbus’s checklist principles and format. This is currently being implemented on ten of their large ships with significant impact on safety performance.Istanbul Technical University Maritime Faculty is another partner to the SEAHORSE project.
WORLD SHIPPING
26 April 2018 - 00:19
Update: 26 April 2018 - 18:39
Professor Osman Turan wins European senior researcher award in waterborne transport
Professor Osman Turan of the Department of Naval Architecture, Ocean and Marine Engineering, was presented with the Transport Research Arena VISION senior researcher award in recognition of his contribution to EU research and in particular the SEAHORSE project.
WORLD SHIPPING
26 April 2018 - 00:19
Update: 26 April 2018 - 18:39
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