Audit Explosion: How audits are undermining maritime risk and safety

Bureaucracy generated by excessive audits and inspections has reached a stage that it leads to high-consequence accidents at sea. Ships go aground and collide at sea not despite but BECAUSE of audits. Professor Michael Power at the London School of Economics calls it ‘Audit Explosion’ - the rising trend towards audits In this podcast, Kristine Storkensen and Nippin Anand discuss the 'Audit Explosion'. Together they explore:What makes the maritime industry susceptible to audit explosion?What is the (hidden) agenda behind audit explosion?How audit explosion undermines its own purpose (ie risk and safety at sea)?What can we learn from other industries and work sectors to address these issues?See a short video from Kristine Storkensen that beautifully captures the message. to a previous podcast on this topic:

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Audit Explosion: How audits are undermining maritime risk and safety is an episode from Embracing Differences by Nippin Anand .

This episode is 00:36:48 long.

This episode was published on Dec 20, 2025.

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