Causes of casualties and the regulation of occupational health and safety in the shipping industry

WMU Journal of Maritime Affairs

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 147-167

  Nielsen, Detlef ^a   Panayides, Photis M ^b  

^a WORLD MARITIME UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Cyprus International Institute of Management   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

accident; fatalities; health and safety; ILO; IMO; occupational; seafarers

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952439252     PISSN: 1651436X     EISSN: 16541642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03195071     Document Type: Article

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