HUMAN FACTORS ASSESSMENT

There has — since the development of simulator based maritime training — been a demand for measurement of the effect of the training. Tools used to obtain these measures are often called assessment techniques . This paper will describe a repertoire of different assessment techniques. Some of these are well known and already in use. A special focus will be held on an in the maritime domain new and very promising methodology for measurement of crew stress. The methodology can — if it is developed and refined — be used as an assessment technique to evaluate the effect of Crew Resource Management training. The methodology will be used in the European project SPIN-HSV, and it is based on psycho physiological measurements of brain activity (EEG). The concluding recommendation is a composite use of different human factors parameters as indicators of increase in human performance (knowledge and skills) and a composite use of different methodologies for measurement of these parameters.