The role of the human factor in the formation of the reliability of the operation of the Ship’s Power Plants

Abstract

Decreasing the role of the «human factor» is of key importance in reducing the accident rate in the fleet. The quality of training of specialists is the most important component in this process. The problem is that the emphasis is still on the technical component (the introduction of remote automated controls, increasing the time between failures, reducing overhaul periods, modular replacement, etc.). However, a person is no less a complex structure, possessing a resource and a set of professional and psychological qualities, which forms the professional reliability of a human operator and affects the functioning of a complex technical system, such as a ship power plant (SPP) system. To test this assumption, a search experiment was conducted on the basis of the All-Russian Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education «Far Eastern State Technical Fisheries University» using the Transas ERS 5000 training complex. The object of the study was the failure-free operation of the ship power plant system. The subject is the characteristics of the «man-technician» system of the ship power plant.The intermediate results of the experiment were given. The problem nodes and systems in the ship power plant during their operation by operators are identified. A qualitative and quantitative assessment of the psychological criteria that affect the professional reliability of a human operator and the reliability of the ship power plant as a whole is given.