Determining Awkward Spaces in Ships Using Posture Study

In this paper, crew work posture, as one of critical human factor considerations, will be reviewedin different ship spaces. whether crew members are standing or seated at a workbench ormachine, their working posture is extremely important. if the available hardware forces crewmembers to remain in an awkward position for a long period of time, they will obviously becomefatigued and, thus, more apt to make mistakes or incur some type of physical disability. insuch spaces, different work postures are one of the most important parameters in affecting crewefficiency and must be studied for each space. in this work, each working space, in some realships, regarding different work postures has been studied and the profile of each workplace hasbeen determined. in this work, by allocating a grade for each workplace, awkward spaces in shipsmay be determined.