News 2025

Marine Newsletter: Watchkeeping an issue for stranded fishing vessel
All seafarers, fishing vessel owners and operators, fishing vessel insurers and maritime training schools will benefit from a better understanding of how safety improves with good watchkeeping and crew members who are alert to their surroundings and ready and able to speak up when they notice danger.

Rail Newsletter: Long COVID affects operators of heavy machinery
Employers and managers of safety-critical workers, please note: workplace safety risk from after-effects of acute illnesses such as COVID-19. Can impair workers’ concentration, memory and thinking, including their ability to reliably self-assess as being fit to return to work. TAIC reports on occurrence where coal train missed and passed a stop signal, potentially into conflict with oncoming freight train.