TIME FOR NEW LEADERSHIP IN A NEW AGE

Abstract

The need of strong safety leadership cannot be overstated in high-risk sectors like shipping, where a lack of it may lead to maritime accidents that result in human suffering, death, property loss, and contamination of the environment. Human interactions and contentment among crew members are regarded essential to efficient teamwork, and this is one part of excellent and effective safety leadership. Effective cooperation and safety leadership should be implemented by ship's officers in order to improve the safety culture, increase overall safety, and safeguard the maritime environment. Maintaining safe job performance, conducting safety training, and fostering crew morale are all aspects of shipboard safety leadership. As a result, all parties involved in the shipping industry must ensure that officers on board ships can recognize, adapt to, and effectively use these qualities. Shipboard officers who want to thrive as leaders and provide proper leadership for shipboard safety may learn from this study on the traits and qualities that make great leaders. A poll of experienced professional mariners was used to identify these qualities and competencies. Using survey data, researchers discovered that transformational and transactional leadership aspects impact shipboard safety leadership.