Most marine engine accidents are caused by human errors, such as misperception, misjudgment and misoperation. It is essential to comprehensively analyze human errors occurred during marine engine plant operation, and to investigate more effective measures to prevent the similar errors. The Engine-room Resource Management training has become more important for marine engineers working in a complex system. In this paper, first, characteristics of total human errors are investigated by taking 298 marine accidents records from Japan Marine Accident Inquiry. Second, the latent factors which are common factors in accident records are determined using covariance structure analysis. Moreover, the relationships between latent factors and onshore management personnel were investigated using System Dynamics. In this work, a basic model for effective education and support method which improve the marine engineers' skills is considered.
['Masumi Nakamura', 'Takashi Miwa', 'Makoto Uchida']
Relationship between characteristics of human factors based on marine accident analysis