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Research and Consultancy

Warsash Maritime Academy can provide specialist research and consultancy services to the maritime industry, particularly in the field of maritime human factors.

Horizon Project

This EU sponsored research project looks into the concerns over human safety, environmental damage and commercial loss due to watch officer fatigue.

Click here for more information about the Horizon project.|

Maritime Human Factors

The development of maritime human factors research at Warsash Maritime Academy has been in three main areas:

• Research that underpins the Academy's core business of maritime education and training to reduce accidents and improve safety.
  
  
• Research in seafarer employment and human resource management issues.
  
  
• Research and consultancy in the Human Factors analysis of casualties, development of near miss and incident reporting systems.
  

Port Development Projects

This work includes examining the operational aspects of changes in a port such as realigning existing berths, examining proposals for new berths, testing against specific combinations of meteorological conditions and investigating tug requirements and techniques.

Proposed berths, channels and other elements of a port can be built from drawings to achieve pilot and tug master familiarisation prior to the completion of the infrastructure.

The operational needs and procedures for new ship types and sizes can also be investigated on the simulation.

For further information, please email: wma@solent.ac.uk|  

 

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