## (2) Promoting Safety Measures for Ship Passengers

Around 50% of the fatalities and missing persons from accidents involving ship passengers is due to falling into sea. In order to survive a fall, it is essential that they are floating at sea and a request for rescue is made immediately. For this reason the Japan Coast Guard is spreading the message and raising awareness for wearing life jackets at all times, securing appropriate communication measures such as having cell phones in waterproof packs, and effectively using the emergency telephone hotline to the Japan Coast Guard, “118” as the three basic self-rescue measures. Also, for small crafts (fishing boats, recreational boats, etc.), the fatality rate of those that do not wear life jackets that fall into the sea is four times higher than those that wear life jackets; wearing a life jacket is a major factor in surviving a fall into sea. For this reason, in addition to support for LGL Note 1 and designating model marinas for promoting life jacket wearing Note 2, wearing a life jacket is promoted year round through coordination with relevant ministries and local government.

## (3) Strengthening the Rescue System

In order for the Japan Coast Guard to carry out swift and appropriate rescue, distress frequencies are monitored around the clock and an emergency telephone hotline, “118” is made available to quickly catch information regarding incidents at sea. Also, along with improving the rescue technology and capabilities of those such as Special Rescue Team, mobile rescue technicians, and divers, enhancements and fortifications of the medical control framework to ensure the quality of emergency life-saving treatment that emergency response personnel perform as well as advancing the functionality of patrol boats and aircraft is being carried out as part of efforts to enhance and fortify the rescue and emergency system. Also, the enhancement and fortification of coordination between ministries, agencies, local governments, and private rescue organizations is also being carried out.

## 4 Air Traffic Safety Measures

## (1) Strengthening Aviation Safety Measures

### a. State Safety Program (SSP)

To ensure the effectiveness of the SSP to be introduced beginning April 2014, following the creation of the fiscal year plan which will include the establishment of indicators (safety performance indicators) and targets (safety performance targets) to be used for the quantitative measurement of aviation safety, the collection and analysis of safety information and its sharing with stakeholders of various fields along with inspections and other measures to service providers will be implemented in conjunction with activities to improve the safety of aviation. In the future, the series of activities themselves will be continuously reviewed as part of a PDCA cycle to improve the quality.

For service providers and others, with regard to events associated with certain violations (excluding aircraft accident, etc.), by allowing the internal implementation of improvement measures following dialogue (if the service provider and others can demonstrate appropriate remedial measures and actions through this dialogue, adverse dispositions will not be levied), it will support service providers in the establishment of safety management systems (SMS).