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Perhaps one of the worst of all working environments is that on board ship. Accident rates, sickness rates and death rates of seamen are several times higher than those among the equivalent age groups on land. At the beginning of this century, the frequency of marine accidents (ship losses) decreased drastically. In recent decades, however, the number of accidents involving ships has levelled out or even risen (Ivergård [14]; Otterland [17]). During the last decade several international conferences have also been devoted to the work environment aspect of ship design (e. g. the International Shipboard Environmental Design Conference in Maryland, 1974, and the First International Conference on Human Factors in the Design and Operation of Ships in Gothenburg, 1976).
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Ivergård, T. (1984). Ship Design — its Effects on the Seafarer’s Physical and Mental Health. In: Goethe, W.H.G., Watson, E.N., Jones, D.T. (eds) Handbook of Nautical Medicine. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-69415-8_6
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