Quantified investigation of navigation officers' fatigue related errors on ships

Maritime industry is still a human-centered industry in spite of latest technologies which has developed for reducing marine accidents. Human based errors cause marine accidents more than equipment based problems do. These accidents cause catastrophic consequences about human life and marine environment. Fatigue of navigation officers plays effective role on these human-based errors and marine accidents. There are several factors that effect navigation officers’ fatigue. In this study, relationship between fatigue of navigation officers and marine accidents will be examined; factors which are affecting fatigue of navigation officers determined with SWOT (strength, weaknesses, opportunities and threats) analysis method and weighting of the factors determined by using AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process) Method. With this analysis, strategic action plans were developed for minimizing fatigue related human errors on-board taking into account this SWOT factors and the weighting factors

[1]  G. Kecklund,et al.  Sleepiness in long distance truck driving: an ambulatory EEG study of night driving. , 1993, Ergonomics.

[2]  Maarten A. S. Boksem,et al.  Mental fatigue, motivation and action monitoring , 2006, Biological Psychology.

[3]  Jeffrey M. Bradshaw,et al.  Decision Analysis Techniques for Knowledge Acquisition: Combining Information and Preferences Using Aquinas and Axotl , 1990, Int. J. Man Mach. Stud..

[4]  Mikko Kurttila,et al.  Utilizing the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) in SWOT analysis — a hybrid method and its application to a forest-certification case ☆ , 2000 .

[5]  Mireille Raby,et al.  Procedures for Investigating and Reporting Fatigue Contributions to Marine Casualties , 1997 .

[6]  J. Kangas,et al.  Assessing the Priorities Using A'WOT Among Resource Management Strategies at the Finnish Forest and Park Service , 2001, Forest Science.

[7]  T. Åkerstedt,et al.  Sleepiness on the job: continuously measured EEG changes in train drivers. , 1987, Electroencephalography and clinical neurophysiology.

[8]  Sushil Kumar,et al.  Analytic hierarchy process: An overview of applications , 2006, Eur. J. Oper. Res..

[9]  Ozcan Arslan,et al.  A SWOT analysis for successful bridge team organization and safer marine operations , 2008 .

[10]  A. Muzet,et al.  Correlation between driving errors and vigilance level: influence of the driver's age , 2004, Physiology & Behavior.

[11]  M. Bohanec,et al.  The Analytic Hierarchy Process , 2004 .