THE INTEGRATION OF HUMAN FACTORS INTO PRELIMINARY RISK-BASED SHIP DESIGN

摘要

The majority of maritime incidents occur due to human error. FAROS is a three year EC funded multinational research project investigating the relationship between ship design and human performance (http://faros-project.eu/). The project’s main objectives are to develop an approach incorporating human factors into Risk-Based Design of ships and propose design improvements to both cargo and passenger ships to mitigate risk. Human performance can be affected by a range of Global Design Factors, such as ship motions, noise, whole body vibration and deck layout, equipment arrangement and accessibility. A series of experiments has been carried out to assess their influence on human performance. The project consortium consists of twelve members, including industry, research institutes and academia, one of which is the Design Research Centre (DRC), a part of the Marine Research Group of the Department of Mechanical Engineering of UCL (http://www.ucl.ac.uk/mecheng/research/marine). The main tasks of the DRC within FAROS involve the development of parametric cargo ship models, the integration of the design and evaluation tools, and the exploration and optimisation of the cargo ship designs using those tools. This paper illustrates the development of the parametric ship models and their integration with various design evaluation tools. These tools include those developed specifically for FAROS to represent the human element and attempt to bring human factors into the early ship design stages. Finally, using the suite of analysis tools, preliminary results are presented for those that have been collected during the current exploration and optimisation phase of FAROS.