Evaluation of selected Navy equipment for the women-aboard-ship program

Abstract

A study of the human factors aspects of five selected items of Navy equipnent, namely, oxygen breathing apparatus, safety harness, emergency escape scuttle, life rails, and rotary observation windows, has been undertaken to ensure that the smaller size and lesser strength of females would not be a deterrent to the use of the equipment by women . The study involved a review of the applicable specifications for each item of equipment, a survey and erameration of male and female anthropcmetric data, and a linking of engineering and anthropcmetric data. Each item has been assigned to a hazard category.

Proceedings of the Symposium on Psychology in the Department of Defense (8th) Held in Colorado Springs, Colorado on 21-23 April 1982

“…Palla, Jones, Lovett and Porter, 1980;Advanced Marine Enterprises, 1980). For example, females used a different pulling strategy than males during the evaluation.…”

Naval Architectural Research for Women Aboard Ship

“…The empirical methods used here allowed a systematic identification of equipment problems that would not be possible using paper and pencil methods which attempt to match human performance data with equipment use requirements (ref 10,11). For example, females used a different pulling strategy than males during the evaluation.…”