From the perspective of the revision of the Maritime Traffic Safety Law and the Production Safety Law,this paper probes into the connotation of hidden dangers of maritime traffic accidents based on the current situation of the application of hidden danger screening and control mechanism in the maritime administration.In view of the routine safety management work,it puts forward ideas on the hidden danger screening and control mechanism for maritime traffic accidents,in order to provide reference for the integration of hidden danger control and maritime supervision and for accelerating the modernization of maritime governance capacity.