Human ahoy! Addressing human error in ship building — ScienceDaily

On a technological behemoth like a ship, in many cases the crew, or ‘human element” get little attention when planning the design and operations – a mistake, as statistics show: most accidents at sea can be traced back to human error, not technical error. The CyClaDes project brought the industry together and showed how more consideration can be given to the human operators and their contexts in the shipbuilding and operational process.