Effects of risk management practices for prevention of ferry accidents

The navigation through sea is different from the ones happened over a road. These specific differences present at sea are various risk factors on ships. The sea environment encounters with many different accidents because of ships. Serious problems can arise in the environment due to the effects of which are caused by the ships. In this manner, it is an important research approach to reduce the accidents that occur in the sea, to prevent the loss of life and property, and to provide solutions to prevent environmental disasters that can occur in the event of an accident. Among the other types of vessels, Ferryboats provide a critical mode of transportation for especially within rivers and close sea areas that have no bridge on it and in archipelagic islands. Ferryboats are very special type of vessels because they make people-based transportation. In such ships, even small accidents can cause great loss of life. As associated with the explanations, subject of this dissertation study is associated with ferry accidents. In detail, the study aims to focus on applying the risk management in ferry accidents at sea. Within this aim, ferry accidents have been explained in detail and more consideration was given to the benefits of applying risk management approaches to overcome the issues regarding to ferry accidents occurred at sea. In this thesis study, the international legislation in this subject and the methods developed up to this date are examined and the importance of applying risk management approaches to remove / reduce the causes of ferry accidents is mentioned. At this point, the problems were evaluated separately in the conditions of World and Turkey. Through the study, it has been examined the recent literature in detail and tried to provide a comprehensive reference for the researchers interested in the related subject / sub-subjects of the study.