There are a lot of auditory warnings in the bridge, but again, not a great deal of research on the operator’s ability to recognize and to interpret those warning sounds have been published. Therefore, this document carried out the groundwork for the operator’s ability to recognize and interpret those warning sounds from an auditory sensory display. The “Auditory icon”, which was previously studied by Leung (2001), was used to measure and compare with the existing alarm system (abstract sounds). Also, Japan provided the information (IMO, 2009) on their experiences of developing industrial standards for voice alarm/control system, based on Japanese Industrial Standards (JIS F 0062). On the basis of the results from the research, this paper attempts to be used as fundamental research in order to establish performance standards (suitable standards for recognizing and interpreting warning sounds) for an auditory warning (abstract sound, auditory icon, and voice alarm), and for integrating performance standard bridge warning alarms in order to establish the foundation of an Integrated Bridge Alarm System.

Bridge alert management; abstract sound; auditory icon; and voice alarm