Regulations
"I will remind you just as I reminded him these are my ships. And, according to our contract, I have final say on the design. I’ll not have so many little boats, as you call them, cluttering up my decks and putting fear into my passengers."-J. Bruce Ismay
SOLAS brought many necessary regulations including
the change in lifeboat numbers. Titanic met regulations at the time,
only having 16 lifeboats, when, it would now, need 32 to fit all
passengers. SOLAS also made certain life jackets were provided for all
passengers. The Radio Act of 1912 gave all ships 24 hour
wireless watch to prevent incidents like Titanic.
“Ironically, rather than improving safety, punishment makes reducing errors much more difficult by providing strong incentives for people to hide their mistakes, thus preventing recognition, analysis, and correction of underlying causes...we must stop blaming people and start looking at our systems. We must look at how we do things that cause errors and keep us from discovering them … before they cause an injury"-L.L. Leape
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