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  • Occupational Health and Safety
  • Decision Science
  • Human Factors Engineering

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  • Commercial diver selection is often subjective and time-consuming.
  • Objective evaluation criteria are needed for personnel selection.
  • This study addresses the need for an objective tool in diver selection.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and propose an objective methodology for commercial diver selection.
  • To evaluate divers based on work experience and physical fitness.
  • To reduce subjectivity and improve the efficiency of personnel selection.

Main Methods:

  • Employed a combination of multiple-criteria decision-making (MCDM) methods.
  • Utilized the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) to compute subcriteria weights for work experience and physical fitness.
  • Applied Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to aggregate scores and rank divers.

Main Results:

  • The proposed methodology successfully differentiated between qualified and unqualified divers.
  • Divers received scores between 0 and 1 for each project type.
  • A clear ranking of eight divers was established based on their overall performance.

Conclusions:

  • The developed methodology provides an objective and systematic approach to diver evaluation.
  • This systematic approach can reduce conflicts and confusion arising from subjective judgments.
  • Further validation in real-world projects is recommended to confirm the criteria and results.