Addresses the interaction between humans and automated systems, focusing on user-centred design and operational adaptability. It examines how human expertise can optimise, supervise, and enhance performance within increasingly autonomous environments.

Explores current challenges and opportunities in maritime education and training. The session highlights innovative approaches to prepare future seafarers and professionals for evolving industry demands, digitalisation, and new technologies.

Centres on integrating human factors into the design and engineering of maritime systems. The goal is to optimise interfaces, ergonomics, and workflows to enhance human performance, minimise error, and improve system resilience throughout a vessel’s life cycle.

Focuses on capturing and analysing human factors data from accidents, near misses, and operational reports to enable learning and proactive risk management. The session discusses methods, frameworks, and digital tools that strengthen safety learning and system improvement.

Examines the role of human performance in maintaining system reliability and safety. It focuses on identifying, assessing, and mitigating human contributions to risk through structured, evidence-based assurance practices that enhance individual and organisational resilience.

Investigates how human factors influence the maritime industry’s transition to alternative fuels and sustainable operations. It explores how human behaviour, competence, and system design affect the safe and effective adoption of low- and zero-carbon technologies.