THE HUMAN ELEMENT AS A COMPONENT OF RISK OCCURRENCE OF AN UNDESIRABLE EVENT ON BOARD A SHIP

Abstract

The idea of the article is to find out the possibility of the influence of the human element's tendency to risk on the probability of an undesirable event occurring during the operation on board a vessel by the ship’s crew. Taking into account the statistics of the occurrence of hazards in the maritime industry caused by the human factor, the author of the article investigates the reasons related to the psychological and social qualities of ship’s crew, in particular the degree of readiness for the risk of danger.

The author's method "The diagnostics of the degree of ship’s crew readiness to the risk of danger" is used to determine the degree of risk readiness of a crew member on board a ship. The conclusion relating to the influence of the ship's crew member's predisposition to risks on the occurrence of an undesirable event was made on the base of the results of the diagnostics. The reliability of the method is determined using the Puasson distribution.

The maritime industry specialists work in accordance with the Maritime Labor Convention (MLC, 2006), that clearly defines the work operation norms on board a ship. The International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS 74) is applied in case of undesirable event occurrence.

The documentary base, which regulates the work and behavior of each member of the ship's crew in any situation, and requires its strict observance, affects the probability of the desired event and allows to create a psychological portrait of maritime industry specialist. Based on obtained results, the author of the article has proposed a model of the behavior of a member of the ship's crew prone to or not prone to risk.