A Survey of Human Factors in High Speed Crafts

Operational use of high speed crafts (HSC) s may lead to physical harmful effects on crew and as a result، performance reduction will be anticipated. The purpose of current research is a human factors analysis in the HSCs. In this paper، First we recognized the crew ergonomic difficult in an Iranian sea organization by a field survey (whit collaborate of 57 crew). Validity and reliability of research are approved. Thus، we measured crew anthropometric dimensions (for 30 samples). Also، we measured the internal dimensions of two current HSCs belong to organization. By compare of two researches and internal dimensions of current HSCs، we analyzed the gap between current and suitable situations of HSCs as human factors aspects. According to results، the high percent of crew involved in ache in the knee، back and neck that is due to lake of an ergonomic seat and cabin. As current research is new in Iran، the result it can be used in designing and manufacturing or purchasing and so improvement of internal dimensions of HSCs (in the seat and cabin workstation).