Modelling the impact of human fatigue on the risk of shipping accidents

Human fatigue is influencing the risk of maritime accidents. A ship`s bridge sailing in trafficked waters is a multi-causal and complex system. Decisions made on the bridge may have invisible and delayed consequences. This article explains how and why accident investigation reports can be used to construct easily updateable quantitative risk assessment models which take human factors into account. The article then makes use of the Barrier and...