The main goal of the project was giving a decision support app for managers of the vessels in case of detecting the potential infectious disease on board and preventing its spreading by giving a short advice on what steps should be taken after having such prediction.DESSEV tool is such one.It provides a holistic risk management tool for pandemic control on board ocean-going ships. The main strength of the DESSEV online decision support system lies in its ability to manage risks.The initial step in risk management is generally known to be recognising hazards.When the risk level is known, the mitigating actions help manage the risk and lower the risk to a tolerable level.The DESSEV decision support system assists in recognising the hazard precisely and provides mitigating actions to manage the situation further.DESSEV decision support system is strongly present in every step of the risk management process in a safety-critical environment.The future of the DESSEV decision support system is conditional on the successful implementation of the novel tool in a conventional safety management.DESSEV is a decision support system,it gives a prediction of disease, not a diagnose and it’s not replacing the medical advice.
The idea of the project emerged after the COVID-19 pandemic.This situation showed that in the case of ships it was the worst. Long-term isolation onboard,ban on entering the port,long waiting for a replacement,constant fear for own health due to the lack of direct access to a hospital or doctor.In practice,the vessel becomes a moving isolator with a great potential to "release" the disease over a larger area.The crew has medical training,but in a field of direct threat to life.Ship procedures also specify how to act in the event of a threat to life.However, there are no detailed procedures for detecting an infectious disease or for preventing its spread.The great motivation of the project is to deliver an expert system, based on repository and AI models, which may resolve:how non-medical can accurately react on cases of potential infectious disease?;what are the next steps after the detection of such one?;what mean of communication/ medical assistance should be used further.The main aim of the project is to design and develop the decision support system, based on medical knowledge base and AI prediction models for maritime decision makers in order to give some indications in the case of risk of epidemic outbreak on board.