Contribution of human factors to shipping safety

This thesis empirically determines “Contribution of Human Factors to Shipping Safety”. Human factors can be classified into three categories. They are organizational factor, group factor, and individual factor Based on its classification, questionnaire was made. Questionnaire was tested to 30 respon...

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Main Author:	Lestari, Arfena Deah
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	2013
Subjects:	TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery
Online Access:	http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/50721/25/ArfenaDeahLestariMFKM2013.pdf
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spelling	my-utm-ep.507212020-07-09T07:44:46Z Contribution of human factors to shipping safety 2013-01 Lestari, Arfena Deah TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery This thesis empirically determines “Contribution of Human Factors to Shipping Safety”. Human factors can be classified into three categories. They are organizational factor, group factor, and individual factor Based on its classification, questionnaire was made. Questionnaire was tested to 30 respondents who are working at a shipping company (PT. Baruna Jaya) to determine its validity and reliability by using Ms.Excel program. After the test is done, results shows that 17organizational factor statements, 11 group factor statements, 12 individual factor statements, and 10 shipping safety statements are valid with reliability value for each variables are 0860, 0.767, 0721, and 0.8. By using its valid statements,questionnaires distributed to 86 respondents who are working as passenger ship‟screw at two shipping companies (PT Baruna Jaya and PT. Lestari Indoma Bahari).After obtained data, analysis requirements test (normality, homogeneity, linearity and independence test between independent variables) need to be done to determine statistical method to be used. Correlation and regression method by using SPSS program was used to determine contribution of human factors to shipping safety,either carried out independently between independent variable to dependent variable,or together between three independent variables to dependent variable. Analyzed data was found that there are 28.8% contribution of human factors to shipping safety with correlation coefficient is 0.488. This lower contribution of human factors to the shipping safety is one of the causes of ship accidents frequently happen in case study area. During the last two years there were 22 cases of ship accidents. With respect to that all parties which involve in shipping include shipping companies, ship‟s owners,government, regulatory authorities, classification society and other parties should take a serious concern about safety in shipping by improving on all aspect of human factors. 2013-01 Thesis http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/50721/ http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/50721/25/ArfenaDeahLestariMFKM2013.pdf application/pdf en public http://dms.library.utm.my:8080/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:89317 masters Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
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description	This thesis empirically determines “Contribution of Human Factors to Shipping Safety”. Human factors can be classified into three categories. They are organizational factor, group factor, and individual factor Based on its classification, questionnaire was made. Questionnaire was tested to 30 respondents who are working at a shipping company (PT. Baruna Jaya) to determine its validity and reliability by using Ms.Excel program. After the test is done, results shows that 17organizational factor statements, 11 group factor statements, 12 individual factor statements, and 10 shipping safety statements are valid with reliability value for each variables are 0860, 0.767, 0721, and 0.8. By using its valid statements,questionnaires distributed to 86 respondents who are working as passenger ship‟screw at two shipping companies (PT Baruna Jaya and PT. Lestari Indoma Bahari).After obtained data, analysis requirements test (normality, homogeneity, linearity and independence test between independent variables) need to be done to determine statistical method to be used. Correlation and regression method by using SPSS program was used to determine contribution of human factors to shipping safety,either carried out independently between independent variable to dependent variable,or together between three independent variables to dependent variable. Analyzed data was found that there are 28.8% contribution of human factors to shipping safety with correlation coefficient is 0.488. This lower contribution of human factors to the shipping safety is one of the causes of ship accidents frequently happen in case study area. During the last two years there were 22 cases of ship accidents. With respect to that all parties which involve in shipping include shipping companies, ship‟s owners,government, regulatory authorities, classification society and other parties should take a serious concern about safety in shipping by improving on all aspect of human factors.
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author	Lestari, Arfena Deah
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title	Contribution of human factors to shipping safety
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granting_institution	Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
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