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Effect of Multicultural Awareness and Communication on Safety onboard a Vessel

The need for people to be able to talk to each other without prejudice comes with globalization. Maritime safety is largely dependant on adequate communication and mutual understanding of persons onboard vessels. Although maritime technology evolved, there is still a large number of maritime accidents. Inadequate communication and misunderstandings are one of the factors that can lead to human error, that in return can cause the accident. Human relations onboard are also dependant on communication, especially in cases of multicultural crews. In order to understand each other and create a safe working and living environment, adequate communication is essential. But, adequate communication is not always sufficient to overcome cultural differences between crewmembers. Answer to that issue could be multicultural training for all crewmembers on board vessels. A questionnaire with the title: ̋Multicultural awareness and communication on board a vessel ̋ was given to experienced seamen in order to uncover their opinion on the adequacy of communication and human relations on vessels with multicultural crews.

multicultural, communication, human relations

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