By the very nature of the job, seafaring is a dangerous job and no amount of legislation, written procedures, reporting and training will ever make it perfectly safe. The best that can be done is to attempt to ensure that if an accident, or incident, does occur then it is minor, which all of the above may possibly assist in ensuring.
You are just about to take a sip out of your hot cup of coffee when a sudden lurge of the ship causes the hot coffee to spill and scold your hand. This means for a short time you are unable to use that hand to write with or to grip anything tightly and as such has to be reported as a "lost time incident" with a subsequent investigation and report with recommendations.
So who is to blame?, The master for carrying on the voyage, the company for supplying hot coffee making facilities, or yourself for choosing to drink hot coffee instead of a cold drink?
This is what seafaring has gradually decended into with owners, shore and ships staff being snowed under in safety regulations and on board tick boxing procedures gaining precedence over common sense and good seamanship. As a couple of us have said, one hand for yourself and the other for the ship, using that you will always get by safe and sound.
Rgds
J.A.