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7 - Has BBS increased safety in your organisation YES No. Not sure Not applicable Skipped question 40 29 1 7 10 3 30 20 10 0 YES No. Not sure Q7 - Has BBS improved safety in your org. 8 - Any other comments aa) We receive over 100,00 BBS evaluations per year. Hard to determine whether specifically BBS or combination of MS that reduces incidents bb) We have had a reduction of 448 days free of TRCF (total recordable case frequency) cc) We have been doing BBS for the last 10 years dd) Increased stop cards reduced the number of incidents ee) Before BBS Stop Cards and Near Misses were evaluated together, now if is done seperately in our company. ff) Also due to close regulation of Rest Hours, the fatigue is less and number of incidents has reduced. gg) BBS creates inter departmental conflicts and tensions between subordinates hh) DuPont approach is continuously monitoring unsafe behaviour with no pre-defined reporting interval ii) IRIS sustem we follow is an On-line reorting system where every crew member has Internet access and they are free to report confidentially anytime for anyone. jj) We have TAS system (Thinking About Safety) which has positive impact kk) We folow BP based Advanced Safety Audits which due to recent increase of fleet size and crew numbers will take longer to establish the benefits ll) Master's involvement and support is critical. Cultural perceptions affect program realisation. Program should not increase paperwork. mm) We have provided stop cards to all our sea farers in 2011 and since then our KPI on incidents has improved a lot nn) We intend to implement BBS / Stop card system in the near future and will be monitoring the effectiveness once fully implemented. oo) Reduced Injury Incidents observed pp) We are sending our Suptds for BBS courses to enhance their knowledge on BBS. qq) The number of incident reports reduced 6 months after BBS was implemented onboard. rr) The reduction is positive, active SWA program is evidence ss) Our LTIF (Lost Time Injury Frequency) reduced by 57%, Near Miss / Hazard reporting increased 8 times, Navigation Incidents reduced by 60% tt) STOP card system is in place for over 10 years and we have an incentive scheme where each ship received 3 best cards, a cash incentive. uu) The effectiveness of BBS can be seen by the reduction of number of incidents vv) BBS effectiveness is measured by the number of unsafe acts reported by vessel and further reinforced by company Safety rules.