It is well known fact that the human element makes up more than 80% of causes behind marine accidents. However, there is no objective statistics which clearly shows the proportion of accident caused by the faulty bridge design or mis-arrangement of bridge equipment. Also, even in the marine accident investigations, the focus is often placed on the errors made by the operators and not on the faulty bridge design or mis-arrangement of bridge equipment. Hence, there are little data available on the faulty bridge design or mis-arrangement of bridge equipment. Although there are no objective statistics available, because the ergonomic factors are often overlooked in the bridge design and equipment arrangement, we can assume that such oversight might be the direct or indirect cause behind many of the accidents. Whilst no quantitative evidence is available to prove this assumption, there is no doubt that the ergonomic bridge design user-friendliness aspect can make substantial contributions to the prevention of marine accidents.
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