The Japan Small Craft Inspection Organization (JCI), a national agency acting on behalf of the government, has been dispatched by the government to inspect the sunken sightseeing boat off the coast of Hokkaido's Shiretoko peninsula. I put out a business improvement plan that included things like that.
Regarding the accident in which a sightseeing boat sank off the coast of the Shiretoko Peninsula, in December last year, the National Transportation Safety Board published a report saying that seawater flowed in from a hatch with a defective fastener.
The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism issued an order to improve its operations last month after it became clear that inspections by the Japan Small Craft Inspection Organization (JCI) were insufficient for radio equipment and hatch covers, and that inspection conditions differed from those of the country. On the 20th, JCI submitted a business improvement plan.
According to this, after setting up a "Business Improvement Office" to specialize in internal audits at JCI's headquarters, the government will dispatch ship inspectors to review all the differences between the actual inspection conditions at the site and the government. I'm going
In addition, we will work to strengthen the system by hiring inspectors, improve the efficiency of operations using ICT, and change the awareness of safety first among all employees.
JCI has set the period until the end of March next year as a "business improvement intensive period" and plans to implement these measures as quickly as possible.