Essays about: "thesis on ship safety"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 23 essays containing the words thesis on ship safety.

  1. 11. Does the oversight model lead to power relations in terms of empowerment or responsibilization?

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Riskhantering och Samhällssäkerhet

    Author : Torsten Olsen; [2017]
    Keywords : Safety oversight; regulatory oversight; Oversight model; power relations; empowerment; responsibilization; FLMU06; Technology and Engineering; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : In public safety oversight authorities are traditionally assumed responsible of safeguarding operation and promoting safety by defining prescriptions and observing that they are complied with. Regulated entities on their side are assumed responsibility for complying. READ MORE

  3. 12. Creating safety in a context of conflicting interests: The watch officer on board of a Dutch frigate

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Riskhantering och Samhällssäkerhet

    Author : Martijn Wesselman; [2016]
    Keywords : safety; conflicting interests; FLMU06; system safety; human factors; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The watch officer on board of vessels of the Netherlands Royal Navy has to deal with a wide variety of interest during his/her duty. Despite the wide variety of interests the watch officer has to manage, the amount of incidents and accidents is few. READ MORE

  4. 13. How a ship´s bridge knows its position - ECDIS assisted accidents from a contemporary human factors perspective

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Riskhantering och Samhällssäkerhet

    Author : Mads Ragnvald Nielsen; [2016]
    Keywords : engineering; cognitive systems; Human and technology interaction; accident prevention; systems safety; interaction design; safety by design FLMU06; Technology and Engineering;

    Abstract : The technological artifacts used in ship navigation have undergone substantial changes during the last decades, and real-time digital navigation is a reality with the introduction of the ECDIS. Despite the obvious merits of this new navigation mode, and the imagined improvement in safety that it theoretically should bring, ECDIS has in recent years been associated with several accidents. READ MORE

  5. 14. The Decision to Evacuate a Passenger Ship - An Assessment of the Normative View of the Shipmaster

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Riskhantering och Samhällssäkerhet

    Author : Oessur Hilduberg; [2015]
    Keywords : Human Factors; System Safety; FLMU06; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The shipmaster is the centralised focal point of power on a passenger ship, and upon him/her rests the decision to evacuate the ship if it is deemed to be in a situation that is non-survivable. This thesis set out to explore a societal normative view of the shipmaster in this decision space; a view that can be observed in accident reports and maritime legislation. READ MORE

  6. 15. Bachelors thesis report

    University essay from KTH/Marina system

    Author : Joseph O'Brien; [2015]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : This paper summarises the most important aspects of shipping today, describingstakeholders, markets and types of ships, and weighing the sustainability of this form oftransportation. Furthermore, it follows an initial ship design project step by step: a new vessel is beingprojected to fulfill a transportation need. READ MORE