A Study on Training Model of Marine Engineers Based on Marine Accident Analysis

International convention on Standards of Training, Certification and Watch keeping for seafarers (STCW) was amended in Manila, the Philippines in 2010. The amendments will come into force on 1 January 2017. To meet the competence requirements for marine engineers, the implementation of Engine-room Resource Management training (hereafter, ERM training) was adopted as mandatory. The role of a practical ERM training model has become more important for marine engineers working in a complex system. The purpose of this study is to examine which ERM training best suits engine-room simulation education. First, in this paper, the characteristics of total human errors were investigated using 298 marine accident records from the Japan Marine Accident Inquiry. Second, the common factors of these accident records, namely the latent factors, were determined using covariance structure analysis. Furthermore, System Dynamics (SD) was employed to find the relationships between the latent factors and the technical support to gather the clues for a practical ERM training method. The model includes a data set of actual cases from records of marine accident inquiries and a hypothetical data set. The results show that the support of the onshore management and behavior characteristics of engineers which influence each other in a delicate balance could be expressed in a chronological order.