Abstract:

Since approximately 75% of the world's surface is covered with seas and it is economical, the majority of the cargoes subject to international trade are transported by sea. This situation increases the importance of the construction, maintenance and repair of ships, which are transportation vehicles, and therefore the importance of shipyards. Shipyards have important contributions in terms of ensuring the continuity of the maritime transportation system, providing production, employment, foreign exchange income and meeting the defense needs. In addition to these, shipyards are industrial areas where occupational accidents occur frequently, as they contain many business lines. In this context, it is aimed to determine the causes of occupational accidents in shipyards according to their importance levels. The four main criteria that caused the accident by literature review; Alternatives such as "personal factors, material/equipment-related factors, environmental factors, administrative factors" and 19 sub-criteria related to these, such as "organization, ensuring the suitability of the working environment, training and human-machine harmony" have been determined for the prevention of accidents. In order to compare the main criteria and sub-criteria with each other, a questionnaire was prepared using the comparison values of 1-9 and the importance level of the causes of the accident was tried to be determined according to the evaluation of the experts working in the shipyard. The analyzes were made using the Super Decisions v2.1 program, which operates with the AHP method, one of the multi-criteria decision-making methods, depending on the survey evaluations. In the evaluation among the main criteria, "personal factors" came to the forefront as the most important cause of accident. Among the sub-criteria of the personal factor criterion, "psychological/mental problems" came to the fore as the most important cause of accident. In addition, among the alternatives determined for the prevention of accidents, "organization" has resulted as the most important of the measures to be taken.

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