MAP-01-011 HFI Technical Guide - Human Factors Integration ...

MAP-01-011 – HFI Technical Guide (STGP 11)5.1.4.2 Marine Engineering User RolesHFI Technical IssuesThe following types of issues arise with regard to user roles for marineengineering equipment:• Users may work at an equipment but may also be responsible forinspecting more distant items of equipment.• Platform management roles: the definition of supervisor and operator tasksand duties for watchkeeping varies under different states and conditions.• CBRND and damage control and surveillance: the distribution of tasks andduties varies between centralised and dispersed management and actionteams.• Platform security and safety monitoring: the effect of introducing remotemonitoring like CCTV on tasks and duties, e.g. during flight recovery,maintenance operations etc. needs to be investigated.• Outfitting within compartments and on decks: the demands of the specificfit of equipment selected or developed, and the organisation of duties mayaffect many facets of the general duties undertaken by personnel, e.g.catering, handling of materials in stores and workshops, RAS, cleaning etc.• Equipment reliability and maintenance organisation: maintenance tasksand duties may be radically changed and/or performed remotely (Chap 16).• The effect of future maritime regulations: the demands of MoD, nationaland international regulations, e.g. those of future International MaritimeOrganisation (IMO) MARPOL 1 regulations on platform waste processing.The personnel working with marine engineering equipment will vary from fullyqualified specialists to ordinary members of the crew who are assigned theseduties. A core team of specialists may supervise less-experienced ratings.However, under certain conditions only fully qualified personnel may be used,e.g. when strict obedience of engine orders is required on entering or leaving aport. The equipment must therefore be designed and sited to enable supervisionand promote rapid learning and the use of relatively simple, procedural methodsof working.5.1.4.3 Marine Engineering Team IntegrationThe Marine Engineering Department on board a vessel is chiefly responsible foroperating and maintaining main propulsion, auxiliary and external machineryinstallations. The organisation of this department is likely to be closely related tothe technology used in these systems. Unmanned machinery spaces are likelyto become the norm in the future with the bulk of monitoring and controlconducted remotely from the Ship Control Centre/Control Room.The implication of such changes is that the future organisation required tosupport marine engineering is likely to be very different to that found in current1 MARPOL 73/78 - the International Convention for the Prevention of Marine Pollutionfrom Ships, 1973 as modified by the Protocol of 1978 relating thereto.Nov 2006 Page 5-10 Issue 4