Simulating Behavior Pattern of Key Performance Indicators to Improve Organization’s Safety Performance in Maritime Transport

Abstract

Safety performance management is at the core of safety management system (SMS) in any organization. Managing an organization's safety performance in maritime transport is achieved through the identification of key performance indicators (KPIs), which are used to monitor and measure safety performance. The aim of this paper is to determine how the behavior pattern of the KPIs in an organization, can be simulated. The methods used for this research include methods of gathering, describing and analyzing the KPIs data of a sample organization, as well as statistics, causal modeling, and simulation. The results show the behavior pattern of KPIs in the organization due to the causal impact of certain KPIs. In conclusion, the simulation shows how causal modeling techniques can be useful to simulate behavior pattern of the KPIs in an organization in order to improve organization’s safety performance.