NOTES FROM A REVOLUTION

摘要

Safety cannot be tackled in isolation. It is a product of the individual user, the systems they have to use and the organisation they work for. Ultimately, how an officer interacts with the bridge system on a VLCC depends on how these three elements mesh," said Mark Nicholson, senior researcher for safety of industrial systems atthe University of York, setting the scene for a wide-reaching discussion on why navigation is more than the sum of its parts. "Almost by definition, the introduction of e-navigation will see control drift away from human operators to electronic systems,' Nicholson observed. The degree to which this happens remains a matter of considerable debate, but what is certain is that the type, quantity and quality of information presented to the operator will impact how they carry out their job. "Broadly, we can envisage three possible outcomes: the monitoring navigator, the navigating or controlling navigator, or the controlled navigator."