Issue 35 – May 2014
Putting people at the centre at the design stage and ensuring that the ship is easy to maintain while in service makes for a vessel that is truly usable. And a usable ship can minimise fatigue and stress and increase situational awareness, as the latest issue of Alert!explains.
Alert! 35 issued by the Nautical Institute, gets to grips with what ergonomics means in practice, listing relevant guidelines and standards, providingguides for ship designers and equipment manufacturers and looking at research into the relationship between ship design and human performance. A case study examines how an attempt to remedy a design flaw turned a store room into an enclosed space with fatal consequences.
The Alert! Project – launched in October 2003 – is a campaign to improve the awareness of the human element in the maritime industry. This is a Nautical Institute project, sponsored by The Lloyd’s Register Educational Trust. Further information about the human element awareness initiative, and electronic copies of Alert! can be found atwww.he-alert.org |