연안여객선 안전관리 법제 개선방안 고찰

Abstract

As passenger ship carries a lage number of passengers on the waters, it needs a high level of safety management in order to ensure the safety of life as well as the safety of the ship itself. Therefore, passenger ships are required to be equipped with enhanced structures, equipments and qualifications in terms of material and human elements compared to other ships, and strict safety regulations are applied to prevent incidents, requiring special attention and continuous improvement of the system. Nevertheless, very serious casualties relating to passenger ship have occurred periodically and repeatedly, and many coastal passenger ships operating in domestic waters are relatively small in size and weak in safety management compared to international passenger ships. After disastrous casualties such as the sinking of a ferry Sewol, Korea's maritime safety legislations for passenger ships have been amended and continuously supplemented through system improvement, however these are reactive and punitive measures, and pre-emptive actions for passenger ship safety management are still insufficient. In this paper, the safety legislations concerning coastal passenger ship were compared and reviewed from a practical point of view and proposed some improvement measures to prevent incidents and upgrade the safety of it, such as simulation training course for the captain on coastal passenger ship.