Free live webinar – Thursday 25 June 2026
Carrying the risks: safety learning & human performance at sea
A Day of the Seafarer webinar on how the industry learns – and where lessons still fail to translate into safer practice onboard.
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60 minutes, no cost
Live Q&A with the panel
4 expert speakers across safety, human factors and bridge systems
Recording shared with all registrants
Speakers from DMAIB
Speakers from FORCE Technology
Speakers from Britannia P&I
Speakers from Kongsberg Maritime
Moderated by Maersk Training
About this session
Seafarers carry world trade – and they carry the risks
The IMO’s 2026 Day of the Seafarer campaign reminds us of a simple truth: behind every voyage sits a complex web of pressure, perception, and decision-making that no procedure can fully cover. So how does the industry genuinely learn from what goes wrong? And why do some lessons still fail to change practice onboard?
An honest hour with accident investigators, human factors specialists, loss prevention leaders and bridge systems experts – on safety learning, human performance, and what it really takes to make lessons stick.
Panel speakers
Four experts. One honest conversation.
Voices from accident investigation, human factors, loss prevention and bridge systems – people who see, from very different angles, how the industry learns from what goes wrong at sea.
Mads Ragnvald Nielsen
Maritime Accident Investigator
Danish Maritime Accident Investigation Board
A former seafarer with deep expertise in human factors and systems safety. His work spans accident investigation, research, and teaching – focused on how people, technology and organisational structures interact to shape safety and performance at sea.
Thomas Koester
Senior Human Factors Specialist
FORCE Technology
Over two decades of work on human factors, safety, and socio-technical systems across maritime, rail, energy, healthcare and offshore. Led the integration of Safety II and Safety Differently at Noble Drilling, including ethnographic studies and safety culture transition.
Jacob Damgaard
Divisional Director & Head of Loss Prevention
Britannia P&I
Sailed as both engineer and deck officer with a major shipping line, mainly on container ships. Later worked ashore as Designated Person Ashore and Company Security Officer, and as a Flag State surveyor with the Danish Maritime Authority. Also experienced in offshore and bunkering.
Capt. Jaquelyn E. P. Burton
VP Product & Development, Bridge Systems
Kongsberg Maritime
A Master Mariner with 20 years of global experience and 1,700 days at sea – previously Chief Mate with A.P. Moller-Maersk. Leads product & development for Bridge Systems at Kongsberg, focused on human-centred technology for safer, more sustainable operations. President of WISTA Norway and PhD candidate at ESCP Business School on human-centred transformation in ocean industries.
Moderator
Dr. Joanna-Eugenia Bakouni
Learning & Development Manager, Maritime
Maersk Training
Designs and delivers maritime learning programmes grounded in human performance research. Focused on training that translates from the simulator to the bridge – and back into how the industry learns.
Why attend
Five things you’ll take away
This isn’t a session about more rules or more documentation. It’s a conversation about what makes safety learning actually translate into safer practice – and how to recognise, reinforce and build on the things crews already do well.
01
The gap between shore and bridge
How risk is understood ashore versus how it is experienced on the bridge – and what that mismatch costs in real operations.
02
Where lessons get lost
Recurring patterns in how the industry learns – and the points where it only documents the lesson rather than absorbing it.
03
Human performance as capacity
Why the people doing the work are a capacity to be reinforced, not just a risk to be controlled – and what that looks like in practice.
04
Where simulation actually helps
The role of scenario-based learning in helping crews practise successful responses, not just rehearse the failure modes.
05
What moves the needle
Practical interventions on loss prevention – from procedures, to peer discussion, to leadership behaviour onboard.
Who should attend
Built for the people who own safety in practice
Whether you investigate, prevent, train, or live the consequences of how the industry learns – this session is for you.
Head of HSESafety DirectorHead of Loss PreventionDPA / CSOMarine SuperintendentTechnical SuperintendentFleet ManagerSenior Master / CaptainChief OfficerHead of CrewingHead of Marine HRHead of TrainingL&D ManagerHuman Factors LeadP&I & Insurance RiskClass & Audit
Industries
Ship Management
Shipowners & Operators
Tankers & Bulk
Container Shipping
Offshore & Energy Vessels
P&I, Class & Insurance
Crewing & Manning
Maritime Education
Regulators & Investigators
25 June 2026 – 11:00 CET
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