Overview
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Course Date:
21 Sep 2026 to 24 Sep 2026
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Registration Period:
13 Jul 2026 to 7 Sep 2026
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Duration/Frequency:
32 hrs| Monday- Thursday: 8.30am to 5.30pm
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Mode of Training:
Classroom
What You Will Learn
This course is about prioritising tasks, managing high workload, and manage available resources (bridge teams, engine control teams, shore side emergency responses, external resources such as tugs, etc.) in abnormal and emergency situations. All participating Masters and Officers, as a result, will be trained in Human Element Leadership and Management education, at Management-Level. They will, overall, meet Knowledge, Understanding, and Proficiency (KUP) requirements set in the following:
Table A-II/2 (Masters and Chief Mates on 500 gross tonnage or more)
Function: Controlling operation of the ship, and care for persons on board, at Management-Level
Competence Use of leadership and management skills.
Function: Navigation at the Management-Level Competence Respond to navigational emergencies
Providing bridge procedural training (applying Company Bridge Procedures in Abnormal and Emergency Situations is another aim for participants to apply KUP in a contextual environment.
Topics to be covered
1) Working Knowledge of Shipboard Personnel Management and Training- Organisation of crew, authority structure, responsibilities
- Cultural awareness, inherent traits, attitudes, behaviour, cross-cultural communication
- Shipboard situation, informal social structures on board
- Human error, situation awareness, automation awareness, complacency, boredom
- Leadership and team working
- Training, structured shipboard training programmes
- Knowledge of personal abilities and behavioural characteristics
2) Need for International Maritime Conventions (IMC), recommendations and national legislation- IMC – SOLAS, MARPOL, STCW, MLC– role of IMO, ILO
- Recommendations and national legislation
3) Ability to Apply Task and Workload Management- Planning and coordination
- Personnel assignment
- Human limitations
- Personal abilities
- Time and resource constraints
- Prioritisation
- Workloads, rest, and fatigue
- Management (leadership) styles
- Challenges and responses
4) Knowledge and Ability to Apply Effective Resource Management- Effective communication on board and ashore
- Allocation, assignment, and prioritisation of resources
- Decision making reflecting team experience
- Assertiveness and leadership, including motivation
- Obtaining and maintaining situational awareness
- Appraisal of work performance
- Short-term and long-term strategies
5) Knowledge and Ability to Apply Decision-Making Techniques- Situation and risk assessment
- Identify and consider generated options
- Selecting course of action
- Evaluation of outcome effectiveness
- Decision making and problem-solving techniques
- Authority and assertiveness
- Judgement
- Emergencies and crowd management
6) Self-Awareness, Personal, and Professional Development- Knowledge of personal abilities and behavioural characteristics
- Opportunities for personal and professional development
7) Development, Implementation, and Oversight of Standard Operating Procedures
More Information
*Please note that once the maximum class size is reached, the online registration will be closed.
You may register your interest, and would be notified if there is new run.
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