ABSTRACT
The significance of operational human errors in shipping safety has widely been recognized. The accumulation of many shipboard operations on the bridge of the ship demands that a high level of efficiency must be ensured. Discusses the efficiency of the interface which depends on the success of incorporating the human factor in the engineering systems of ship control. At the time of diminishing crew quality, the bridge operator's confidence, competence and communication capability must be in coordination with the technology provided by these systems. Suggests that the areas of limitation in the bridge-operator interface must be identified and the course of action for optimizing this critical relationship for safety must be determined.
