A proper consideration by equipment designers to factors such as how a given piece of equipment will support the
mariner’s tasks and how it can be integrate into the entire equipment “suite” used by the mariner can be a very helpful step. The issue of “inexperience, lack of knowledge and training” is concerned with poor understanding of mariners of how automation works or under what conditions it was designed to work effectively. Consequently, mariners sometimes commit errors in using the equipment.