Marine
The marine environment placed intense and often unique demands on the people who work in it. Ensuring vessel safety, efficient ship and shore operations, regulatory compliance, and personnel safety and wellbeing under these conditions requires expert management of human factors (often known as the ‘human element’).
Applying this expertise enables improvement in marine safety by sustaining human performance in all operations under all operational conditions.
Marine accident and incident data show that the human element is the largest source of marine risk to people, property, assets and operations. Effective management of marine risk requires integration of human factors into all aspects of marine operations, including competency management, design and procurement, organisational policies and procedures, and incident investigations.