The Availability and Reliability of Failure Data

Primarily, great attention should be paid to the data resources, as the various databases do not always use the same platform for data analysis. This is attributable to the fact that different organisations look into safety issues from a different prospective, which facilitates their own interests. In order to overeome the problems created by the availability and reliability of failure data, international co-operation and co-ordination are required with the intention that a new global database will be established, controlled and updated by an international regulatory body (i.e. IMO). Such a database should be easily accessible by both administrations and analysts/researchers. 

It is noted that different types of ships have different levels of difficulties in terms of collecting and processing failure data. For example, the task of data collection and processing for 

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