Continuous development of personnel is essential to ensuring operational safety and efficiency onboard and throughout the company.

Training is an ongoing process. It is not something that occurs at a “moment in time” and then is forgotten about. All training must be followed up with appropriate guidance and support from those with knowledge and experience and every opportunity should be taken to reinforce the learning on a day to day basis.

The company strives at all times to ensure that the necessary resources, equipment and conditions are in place to enable effective training to be carried out. The company recognizes and provides three types of training as required:

This is training carried out onboard the vessel and is usually conducted by members of the ship’s crew. Shipboard training can range from routine exercises to one-off training based on a specific need.

Where shipboard training is combined with a drill, there is no need to carry out an additional training exercise. 

The company will provide computer based training via the SafetyCulture training module. Each crew member is required to have a user account and complete any training assigned to them.

Shore-Side training will be carried out where the resources required to effectively carry out training onboard are not available or where the specialist nature of the training means it can only effectively be completed in a recognized facility.

Each year, after assessing the needs of the ship and those onboard her, the company will prepare a training plan for the vessel detailing the training that is to be carried out throughout the course of the next twelve months. The Master is responsible for implementing this plan. 

The Master is to arrange for monthly whole crew training on safety and emergency systems and equipment. This training must be carried out a a suitable time so that all but the most essential crew are able to participate.

No crew member may miss more than one session in any three month period.

The training is to be mixed between information and live demonstration.

The following training modules must be completed (one each month):
- Lifeboat(s)
- Rescue Boat(s)
- Liferaft(s)
- Immersion Suits
- Pyrotechnics, Line Throwing Devices and Lifebuoys
- Emergency Communication (GMDSS, Radio, Satellite Comms, Signals)
- Fire Main System
- Portable Fire Extinguishers
- Fixed CO2 Fire Fighting System
- Fixed Water Mist System
- Fire Flaps and Dampers

The Company will ensure that an assessment is provided which all crew must complete successfully after the training has been completed.

For each module, the Company will provide a training guide.

This is not a replacement for safety drills, but is intended to deepen crew members knowledge of key safety systems.

ECDIS is the primary means of navigation on this vessel, and as such using it correctly is critical to safe navigation. All Deck Officers must be (and remain) thoroughly familiar with the system and how to use it and to this end the company has established a familiarisation and training program for ECDIS in SafetyCulture.

Training
The program is divided into nine modules, one of which is to be completed approximately every week (but at intervals of not more than 14 days). Training sessions should be scheduled at a time that ensures all Deck Officers will be available to participate and should last as long as is required to properly complete the module. This is a continuous training program, and so when all modules have been completed training recommences for all Deck Officers at module 01.
This training program must be carried out online as a computer based training when provided by the company.

A record of all training carried out, signed by those who participated, is to be maintained in the manner provided for by the Company in the relevant forms FN13 attached to this system. This record is to be maintained for a period of not less than twelve months and is to be made available to inspectors on request.


Familiarisation
New Deck Officers must have completed a shore based “type-specific” ECDIS course before joining the ship. Once onboard, however, they must demonstrate to the Master that they can operate the ECDIS unit to a satisfactory standard to ensure safe navigation.

The Company has provided an ECDIS familiarisation form FN11 for this purpose which is to be completed in the presence of the Master before a new Deck Officer takes charge of a navigational watch. An Officer who has not sailed on the vessel in the previous 12 months is considered a “new Officer” for the purposes of ECDIS familiarisation.

Training Modules
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01 The Basics:
• legal basis of ECDIS as primary means of navigation (certificate of class)
• how to demonstrate that the ECDIS charts are up to date
• backup arrangements
• power (turning on/off, shutting down correctly, sources, backup)
• modules (overview, opening/closing, switching between)
• dimming the display

02 Navi-Planner Module:
• installing cells using the TADS DVDs (whole of world to be installed at all times)
• ordering permits based on a passage plan
• installing permits
• creating a report of all installed cells and permits

03 ECDIS Module:
• display settings (information layers, features, setup as per standard parameters)
• contours: meaning and setup (safety contour, safety depth, shallow contour, deep contour)
• radar Overlay (setup and use)
• target management (display by (name, ID, none))
• effect of the STD display button (how does it impact the standard parameters)

04 Passage Planning:
• planning a passage a) visually, b) using the planning table
• setting up leg parameters
• checking a planned passage for dangers
• the importance of visually checking the entire passage for dangers
• drawing and removing “no-go” highlight zones (a. how to, b. when to: should be used for highlighting isolated no-go areas rather than large swathes of shallow water as this should be highlighted by the “no-go” safety contour)
• generating a waypoint report

05 Route Monitoring:
• Standard display parameters (where to find, how to set up, verifying each leg)
• Orientations, moving the display and re-centring
• Inputs used for route monitoring
• Where to locate and how to interpret GPS and track information
• Cross-checking positional accuracy
• Responding to errors and failures

06 Alarms and Warnings:
• Setting up alarm parameters (how to, where to source from)
• How alarms are displayed on the units
• Meaning of common alarms and how to respond to known and unknown alarms
• How to silence and acknowledge alarms and where to locate alarm list
• How alarms are linked to the standard settings (e.g. Safety contour alarm)

07 Compliance:
• Electrician to demonstrate the location and operation of the backup arrangements, all Deck Officers to be familiar with the setup and operation of these systems
• Procedure for updating ECDIS in such a way as to ensure that inspectors can see it has been updated
• How to print a list of installed charts and permits and where to file same
• Training and familiarisation requirements for Deck Officers

08 Refresher Week:
• Master to select a module from the list above which he feels requires additional training

09 Refresher Week:
• Master to select a module from the list above which he feels requires additional training

Missed Training
If a Deck Officer routinely misses ECDIS training sessions, the Master is to treat this as a disciplinary matter and should also inform the Ship Management Team.