碩士 / 國立臺灣海洋大學 / 商船學系所 / 96 / According to the marine accident statistics from 1989 to 2000 conducted by the UK Marine Accident Investigation Branch, one of the major causes contributing the seafarer casualties was the lifeboat accidents. Although there have been tremendous efforts by International Maritime Organization to revise related regulations of routine operation to enhance the lifeboat safety, but not entirely satisfactory effects. In addition, lifeboat accidents may not only cause disaster consequences to seafarers and equipments, but the shortage of manning levels if crews are dead or injured or impaired facilities. This also will result in the violation of unseaworthiness, then the owner or shipping companies may therefore incur huge losses. Thus, this study’s objective is to realize the common hazard factors in lifeboat accidents.
First of all, the classification-tree technique is employed to categorize the historical lifeboat incidents. Then followed by the application of the death index method to assess the severity in terms of injury and death for each classification. Thirdly, such results will be compared with the contributing factors that have been identified based on field study according the common classification. Consequently, the common hazard factors of lifeboat incidents will be appreciated. By applying the research framework proposed in this study, it is concluded that the common classification is drill in port and the most lifeboat accidents are improper operation and poor communication due to human errors as well as the breakdown of winches, brakes and release gears due to machine malfunctions. Such factors are regarded as crucial elements for the lifeboat safety to which more attentions should be paid.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TW/096NTOU5728028 |
| Date | January 2008 |
| Creators | Chang-Min Chiu, 邱昌民 |
| Contributors | Bin Lin, 林彬 |
| Source Sets | National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan |
| Language | zh-TW |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Format | 92 |
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