Human Factors in Marine Casualties

  • Jelenko Švetak
Keywords: marine accident, human factor, organizational factor, attention, memory

Abstract

Human factors play an important role in the origin of accidents,and it is commonly claimed that between seventy andninety-five percent of industrial and transport accidents involvehuman factors, see Figure 1.Some authorities, however, claim that ultimately, all accidentsinvolve human factors.

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Švetak J. Human Factors in Marine Casualties. Promet [Internet]. 1 [cited 2024Nov.9];14(3):103-10. Available from: https://traffic.fpz.hr/index.php/PROMTT/article/view/854
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