Tag: Human Performance

Green-Jakobsen highlights that in the maritime industry, the performance appraisal of senior vessel officers – specifically the Master and Chief Engineer – is perhaps the most critical component of effective performance management.

During the 2025 SAFETY4SEA Manila Forum, Atty. Iris Baguilat, President of Döhle Seafront Crewing discussed the crucial role of seafarer performance and human factors in ensuring safer shipping.

Human performance is influenced by numerous factors, and one deserves greater attention today: crew confidence. In this article, Green-Jakobsen highlights the increased need to monitor, discuss, and develop crew confidence levels if we want to enhance human performance.

While traditional leadership is crucial for guiding teams and maintaining control, strengthening collaborative leadership takes performance to the next level. The reason behind this is that collaborative leadership draws on the collective skills, knowledge, and expertise of the entire team.

In the maritime industry, where the environment is often harsh and hierarchical, ensuring the psychological safety of the crew is crucial. But what exactly is psychological safety, and how can you/your company make the best use of it to benefit ship operations and crew well-being?

In this article, Green Jakobsen delves a bit deeper into the specific example of a finding that impacts performance. They also discuss the practical lessons that we can draw from such performance data.

In a 20-year journey of working with shipping organisations all around the globe, what Green-Jakobsen A/S has seen is the striving for safety excellence, an embedded value for many shipping companies.

Human performance may seem vague or constrained to many and is commonly associated with assessments and interventions. However, data suggest that it is possible to look at human performance in more specific ways.

With years of experience, research, and data collection spanning thousands of respondents, Green-Jakobsen can confidently point to factors that heavily influence human performance in a positive or negative direction.