HE00510 - Learning from experience: Adopting a systems approach to the analysis of marine incidents

The continual development of the standards applied in the implementation of the classification process, the Rules, is based on maintaining pace with changes in maritime technology but it also reflects experience, both of successful application and of failures.

There is often criticism that the maritime regulatory process, which essentially means the application of the international regulations developed by the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) and classification, is influenced too strongly by incidents.