Marine Accident Investigation Branch

Sheen, Barry. 1987. Herald of Free Enterprise Report Marine Accident Investigation Branch, Department of Transport (originally Report of Court No 8074 Formal Investigation). London HMSO. 

The Health and Safety Executive, the Marine Accident Investigation Branch and the Maritime and Coastguard Agency should help emphasise Health and Safety requirements/issues during their dealings with the maritime engineering industry. 

HSE (2003). Memorandum of understanding between the Health and Safety Executive, The Maritime and Coastguard Agency and the Marine Accident Investigation Branch for Health and Safety Enforcement Activities etc. at the Water Margin and Offshore, HSE, available on http //www.hse.gov.uk... 

MAIB (1999). Report of the investigation of the crushing and subsequent death of a bargehand between tug WILLEM-B and barge R8 at Nab Tower Dumping Grounds on 6 June 1999. Marine Accident Investigation Branch, MAIB 1/10/93. 

Marine Accident Investigation Branch has its headquarters at 1st Floor, Carlton House, Carlton Place, Southampton SO 15 2DZ. 

Marine Incident Database System (MIDS) - A database maintained by the Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB). 

The accident data presented in this section are predominantly gathered from the Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB). The MAIB is a totally independent unit within the Department of the Environment Transport and the Regions (D ) and reports directly to the Secretary of State. The MAIB received 1,418 accident and incident reports in 1999. Accidents to ships accounted for 641 of those reports. 

MAE, (1995) Marine Accident Investigation Branch - Safety Digest Summary , No. 2/95, United Kingdom. 

MAE, (1998) Marine Accident Investigation Branch Marine Accident Report 1/98 , Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions, United Kingdom, September, ISBN 1 85 112101 3. 

In the HAZID meeting, accident categories are determined for safety analysis. As a guide, the accident categories determined by the Marine Accident Investigation Branch can be used (Loughran et al. (2002)). These categories can be seen in Chapter 2 (Section 2.S) and are summarised as follows ... 

MAIB, (2000) Safety Digest Lessons from Marine Accident Reports , Marine Accident Investigation Branch, DETR, 1/2000, United Kingdom. 

The most important problem of incident investigation is concerned with monitoring and observing of incidents. Comparing to other branches of transportation the marine transportation is most comphcated in this issue due to relatively small number of serious accidents and lack of special procedures of mandatory and anonymous incident reporting like for example in aviation (Fig. 7). 

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