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22nd International Congress for Cross-Cultural Psychology,15-19 July 2014, Reims, France

Issue 1 Bulletin contains: * One Naval Architect's view of the Human Factor * Just waiting to happen...A Marine Engineering perspective * Exploring the human element: The International Maritime Organisation * A user-centred design approach to the fitting of AIS * Accident Investigation Reports

This guides explaines fundamental aspects of human behaviour.

This literature review focuses on safety issues related to the crews and gives examples of what kinds of errors are the most common to happen. Intercultural cooperation, communication, fatigue and the language skills of a seafarer are the most important issues that contribute to maritime safety on the individual level. The results show that more training in understanding other cultures is needed. Also improvements in teaching English to seafarers are suggested. The final chapter presents possible information sources for studying crew competences in the Baltic Sea, which is a field of study not yet covered at all.

The Swedish Maritime Administration’s regulations and general advice on safety arrangements and safety measures on board ships

This study explores and disseminates the success factors of UCD from which seafarers believe they can benefit as ship users. Such is done by cross-examining data from two focus group interviews comprised predominantly by participants with seagoing experience. The results show that the participants perceive UCD as an added value in terms of physical, cognitive, psychosocial and organizational improvements. Communication between stakeholders, usability, safety and satisfaction are a few of the categories that result from the identified success factors

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Issue 20 contains:; The cadet training experience; Post-graduate Certificate in Maritime Education and Training; Are your seafarers competent?; Continuing professional development...a notion of life-long learning; Grounding of a Ro-Ro passenger ferry

This report summarises the main findings of a study on consideration of social dynamics of multinational crewing aboard merchad cargo ships.