Maritime Safety and Offshore Safety
Introduction
We have been working on safety culture research since 2008 through our collaboration with American Bureau of Shipping (Dr. Kevin McSweeney) and Lamar University (Dr. Brian Craig and Dr. James Curry). The two domains that we have focused on are:
The above two websites are remotely maintained by Dr. Zhu at University of Houston. The primary funding is from National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) Gulf Research Program (GRP). We have recently concluded the offshore safety culture assessment toolkit project funded by GRP (12/2019 – 05/2023). We are currently working on the second GRP project on offshore safety management system (09/2023 – 08/2025).
In addition, we are funded by Ocean Energy Safety Institute (OESI) through a subcontract from American Bureau of Shipping. The goal is to improve crane safety in the offshore industry.
The relevant publication list:
- James Curry, Brian Craig, Weihang Zhu, Jyothi Supriya Chollangi, Saikrishna S Gubbala, Mohammad Shafayet Hossain, Wenhao Yang, Using Large Language Models to Analyze Maritime Near Miss Data, TRBAM-25-03877, Transportation Research Board (TRB) Annual Meeting on January 5-9, 2025
- Pratikshya Tiwari, Weihang Zhu *, Kevin McSweeney, Offshore Crane Safety Related to Human Errors: A Review, TAMU Ocean Energy Safety Symposium 2024, College Station, Texas, October 22-24, 2024
- Pratikshya Tiwari, Weihang Zhu *, Kevin McSweeney, A Comparative Analysis of Offshore Crane Operation Standards: USA, UK, and Norway (presentation only), Offshore Lifting Conference 2024, Houston, Texas, September 24-25, 2024
- Kevin McSweeney, James Curry, Rick Curtis, Ezra Wari, Weihang Zhu*, Brian Craig, Muhammad Muzamil Hussain, Arturo Haces-Garcia, Oghosa P Idahosa, Emad Zeni, Gubbala Seshasaikrishna, Development of a Comprehensive Multi-Component Toolkit for Offshore Safety Culture Assessment, Process Safety and Environmental Protection, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psep.2023.05.030
- Weihang Zhu, James Curry, Kevin McSweeney, Brian Craig, Rick Curtis, Ezra Wari, Development of an Offshore Safety Culture Maturity Model, IISE Annual Conference 2023, New Orleans, LA
- Weihang Zhu, Rick Curtis, James Curry, Kevin McSweeney, Brian Craig, Ezra Wari, Identifying Safety Leading Indicators for the Offshore Industry, Proceedings of the 28th Offshore Symposium, March 8th, 2023, Houston, Texas
- Ezra Wari, James Curry, Weihang Zhu*, Brian Craig, Muhammad Muzamil Hussain, Arturo Haces-Garcia, Oghosa P Idahosa, Emad Zeni, Gubbala Seshasaikrishna, Describing Offshore Safety Culture with a Multi-Component Toolkit Approach, 1st Ocean Energy Safety Symposium, Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center, College Station, Texas, October 5-7, 2022
- James Curry, Weihang Zhu, Brian N. Craig, Emad Mohammad Zeni, Saikrishna S Gubbala, An Investigation on the Impact of Safety Culture Surveys Questionnaire on the Results through the Correlation Analysis, 24th Annual Process Safety International Symposium, October 19-21, 2021, College Station, Texas
- Ning Lou, Ezra Wari, James Curry, Kevin McSweeney, Rick Curtis, Brian Craig, Muhammad Hussain, Weihang Zhu, Identifying Safety Culture Factors for Offshore Industry, 26th SNAME Symposium, Houston, TX, Apr 6-7, 2021
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