The Human Element

“All ships require humans to operate them. Even if drone ships become a reality, they will still be built, maintained and managed by humans.” – The Standard Club

 

Journal of Shipping and Trade –  Reducing maritime accidents in ships by tackling human error (2021)

Scientific Journal of Maritime Research – Preventing marine accidents caused by technology-induced human error (2017)

NI – Technology and the Human Element (2009)

Normal Accidents-Living With High-Risk Technologies – Perrow

OCIMF – Human Factors Approach – A framework to materially reduce marine risk

FIT-Safe Lane – Using the Human Performance Index (HPI) to Reduce Shipping Industry Incidents : A holistic and proactive approach to incident reduction

UK Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA)

MCA – The Human Element : a guide to human behavior in the shipping industry

MCA – MGN 505 – HUMAN ELEMENT GUIDANCE- PART 1 Fatigue and Fitness for Duty: Statutory Duties, Causes of Fatigue and Guidance on Good Practice

MCA – MGN 520 – HUMAN ELEMENT GUIDANCE – PART 2 The Deadly Dozen – 12 Significant People Factors in Maritime Safety

MCA – MGN 638 – HUMAN ELEMENT GUIDANCE – PART 3 Distraction – the fatal dangers of mobile phones and other personal devices when working 

CHIRP UK

Perception, Decision Making and Fatigue at Sea

Unsafe Behavior – Rethinking the Concept : Ron Gantt – ProfessionalSafety

Nautical Institute – Alert! – Mentoring

North of England P&I : Master Pilot Information Exchange

IMO Standard Marine Communication Phrases

Human Failure Types – UK HSE

Just Culture – Human Behavior Navigator

Demystifying Human Factors : Practical solutions to reduce incidents and improve safety, quality and reliability – 2002

Improving Incident Investigation through Inclusion of Human Factors – 2002

Needs and Challenges to Establishing an Effective Marine Safety Information Network to Improve Maritime Operational Safety – SOCP – 2012

Error Management

GWU – Cultural Aspects of Error Management – Weedn (2015)

WMU – The causes and prevention of human error contributing to maritime accidents in Tanzania maritime accidents in Tanzania – Fumbuka (1999)

Heuristics and Biases

Hindsight Bias and Narrative Fallacy – Barry Ritholtz (2018)

Board of Innovation – 16 Key cognitive biases that impact creativity and the innovation process

European Review of Social Psychology – How to Make Cognitive Illusions Disappear-Beyond Heuristics and Biases – Gigerenzer (1991)

Heuristics

Aviation Resources

Human Factors Analysis and Classification System (HFACS) – SKYbrary

Safety behaviours: human factors for pilots 2nd edition – Australia Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA)

Human Factors in Incidents – Airbus

CRM Factors in Incidents – Airbus

Error Management – Airbus

Conducting Effective Briefings – Airbus

Safety Management Manual (SMM) – ICAO

Creating a Positive Safety Culture – IATA Asia Pacific

Crew Resource Management – This online tutorial is an abbreviated version and is a good resource of CRM related material for those interested in CRM and human factors education

ICAO – Investigation of Human Factors in Accidents and Incidents

Aviation Decision-Making (ADM)

FAA – Advisory Circular AC 60-22 : Aviation Decision-Making

FAA – H-8083-2 : Risk Management Handbook

PHAK – Chapter 2 – Aeronautical Decision-Making

Effective Aeronautical Decision Making

Complacency and Chronic Unease

RiskTec – Chronic Unease

 

Theory

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