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

Chapter 4 – Manpower, Complementing and AccommodationHFI Technical IssuesFigure 4-1: Female personnel are employed atsea in surface shipsIt is current Naval policy for female personnel to be employed at sea in surfaceships. Measures clearly need to be taken to separate male and femaleaccommodation for reasons of privacy. Rules laid down by the Navy Board 5dictate that females shall have:• Separate accommodation, heads and bathrooms.• Short access routes from bunk spaces to heads and bathrooms, avoidingmain passageways.The requirement to accommodate females will increase the accommodationmargins because of the need to cope with variability in the numbers of males andfemales. This gives rise to the Flexibility Margin, which allows a short noticerelief of either gender to be drafted to the Ship.5 See ‘Navy Board Rules’ [Ref 21].Nov 2006 Page 4-9 Issue 4