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Safety Culture
WHY YOUR CREW’S HABITS ARE YOUR BIGGEST LIABILITY 
(OR YOUR GREATEST ASSET)
RHIANNON SILVASHY  //  VESSEL VANGUARD
This is the second in a three-part series on building a stronger maritime operation. Part one, “Navigating U.S. Coast Guard 
Inspection Prep as a Daily Operational Habit, Not a Once-a-Year Scramble,” appeared in the June issue of Foghorn.
I 
want to tell you about a conversation I had with an operator a while back. Good guy. Ran 
a tight charter operation, decent-sized fleet, had been in the business for years. We were 
talking about a near-miss his vessel had—nothing catastrophic, but the kind of thing that 
could have gone very differently.
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