Cargo Ship Navigation Techniques to Ensure Safety Performance

This study has aimed to investigate the impact of individual talent on ship captains' job satisfaction, safety performance, and safety motivation, as well as the function of safety motivation as a mediating variable. A quantitative research approach has been used for this investigation. With a sample of one hundred respondents, the population in the study has consisted of all cargo ship captains, including container ships, general cargo ships, bulk carriers, and tankers whose ships stopped at the Tanjung Perak port of Surabaya, Indonesia. Purposive sampling is a sampling method. This study has used SMART PLS software and Partial Least Square strategy for inferential data analysis. The findings show that job satisfaction, safety performance, and safety motivation are significantly influenced by individual aptitude. Safety motivation affects job satisfaction, but safety motivation has no effect on safety performance. The study has also found out that safety motivation variables can mediate the relationship between individual talent and job satisfaction through safety motivation. However, safety motivation is not able to mediate the relationship between individual aptitude and safety performance. The implication of management is that safety motivation plays an important role for cargo ship captains, besides that job satisfaction is also considered to achieve safety performance.