Safety Learning Lead: Elevating Incident Learning & Culture

Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines Ltd.; Ipswich; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines seeks a Safety Learning Lead to strengthen organisational learning from incidents, audits, exercises, observations and operational experience across the fleet. You will own the effective operation of the SMS, helping to identify, analyse and mitigate safety risks while embedding lessons into operational practice.

You will champion a culture of continuous improvement, lead investigations with a learning focus and share safe practices across ships and shore-based teams.

Qualifications

• Senior maritime operational, safety or compliance management experience.
• Experience leading or supporting complex incident investigations.
• Experience developing and implementing organisational learning initiatives.
• Experience analysing safety performance data and identifying improvement opportunities.
• Strong knowledge of the ISM Code and safety management systems.
• Knowledge of human factors and Human & Organisational Performance (HOP) principles.
• Root cause analysis and investigation methodologies.
• Strong analytical and report-writing skills.
• Ability to travel internationally monthly and visit vessels as required.
• Willingness to participate in emergency response arrangements, including out-of-hours support.

Responsibilities

• Lead and/or support investigations into high level marine, occupational safety, environmental and security incidents.
• Review investigation reports for quality, consistency and effectiveness.
• Apply root cause, human factors and HOP principles.
• Facilitate learning reviews and post-incident workshops.
• Monitor completion of corrective and preventive actions and their effectiveness.
• Develop and maintain the safety learning framework.
• Identify trends from accidents, incidents, near misses, audits, inspections and observations.
• Own safety communications, including bulletins, alerts, best-practice notices and learning summaries.

Skills

Incident investigation

Learning initiatives

Safety data analysis

ISM Code knowledge

Human factors & HOP

Root cause analysis

Communication & facilitation

Trend identification

Job description

Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines seeks a Safety Learning Lead to strengthen organisational learning from incidents, audits, exercises, observations and operational experience across the fleet. You will own the effective operation of the SMS, helping to identify, analyse and mitigate safety risks while embedding lessons into operational practice.

You will champion a culture of continuous improvement, lead investigations with a learning focus and share safe practices across ships and shore-based teams.