Tug safety research
Stephen Ford, a serving Tug Master and a student at Solent University in the UK, is undertaking a research project to identify the specific safety risks involved in harbour towage operations.
He is seeking to identify those factors which are most likely to cause a risk to tugs, or those that have the most serious consequences for tugs.
In order to do this, he is asking tug masters, pilots, ship masters and others with direct experience of these issues to answer a brief questionnaire. All information provided will remain strictly confidential to the researcher. Anything that attributes information to a particular person, vessel or company will be removed (any information provided is purely for statistical analysis). All responses will be destroyed upon completion of the research project in June 2013.
For a copy of the questionnaire, Maritime Journal readers who would like to participate are asked to contact: tug.safety@btinternet.com
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