Guidance Notes on Ergonomic Design of Navigation Bridges - ABS [2003, PDF]

Guidance Notes on Ergonomic Design of Navigation Bridges

Year: 2003
Language: english
Author: ABS
Genre: Guide
Publisher: ABS
Format: PDF
Quality: eBook
Pages count: 116
Description: The ABS Guide for Bridge Design and Navigational Equipment/Systems presents requirements that “are applicable to vessels possessing SOLAS certificates and having the bridge so designed and equipped as to enhance the safety and efficiency of navigation.”
That Guide also recommends that the design of bridges is to be based on sound ergonomic principles. To support the bridge design and engineering community in promulgating these principles, these ABS Guidance Notes for the Ergonomic Design of Navigation Bridges have been developed.
These Guidance Notes for the Ergonomic Design of Navigation Bridges provide vessel designers with the ergonomic principles and data appropriate to the design of navigation bridges; and in doing so serve to supplement and support the ABS Guide for Bridge Design and Navigational Equipment/Systems. Ergonomic design guidance herein applies only to navigation bridges and associated equipment.
These Guidance Notes do not provide more generally applicable detailed ergonomic design guidance or data, such as control dimensions, environmental limits or human anthropometry. Those data can be found in the ABS Guidance Notes on the Application of Ergonomics to Marine Systems.
Extensive reference is also made to the ABS Guide for Crew Habitability on Ships and the ABS Guide for Crew Habitability on Offshore Installations. These documents present guidance related to the design of the accommodations and the ambient environment of a vessel’s bridge such as human whole body vibration, noise, indoor climate and lighting.