Each ship is unique, and each ship’s bridge is different. But the common element is the human crew.
A Human Factors approach can generate general guidance that would be applicable to numerous ship bridge and equipment designs. Overall, Human Factors can help to maximise the safety impact of safety lessons learned the hard way via incidents and accidents.
The SAFEMODE project is developing a Human Factors Toolkit for the Maritime industry, testing the ‘goodness of fit’ of each technique with maritime case studies and stakeholders. This toolkit can help to improve design of ships, their bridges and engine rooms, as well as enhancing training, procedures, team-working and human-machine interfaces for complex and safety critical operations.
8 key barriers for developing a Learning Culture in maritime
#1 Less Human Factors than in other industries
#2 Degree of variety in ship design
#3 Onshore non-understanding of life at sea
#4 Captain is responsible even if not on duty
#5 Blame the ship, Scant consideration of ‘upstream’ factors
#6 Over- focus on Procedural non-compliance
#7 Criminalization of seafarers
#8 Reluctance to report
8 key aspects of Human Factor analysis to consider (+ related techniques/ frameworks/ models)
#1 Error Identification
HAZOP, TRACER, SOAM techniques
#2 System Analysis
SHELL, STAMP, SESAR HPAP, Arktrans
#3 Real-time Simulation
RTS Prototyping, Eye Tracking, NEUROID
#4 Human Reliability Assessment
HEART, CREAM, CARA
#5 Organizational Aspects
Safety Culture Assessment, HPSoE, Fatigue
#6 Task Analysis
CIT, OSD, HTA,Walk- through/ Talk- through
#7 HF Guidance
LOAT; HF Guidance
#8 HMI Prototyping
RTS Prototyping, Scenario based design, Focus Groups, Eye Tracking
