Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• Analyse the contribution of human error in most marine casualties.
• Allocate, assign, and prioritize resources for safe and efficient operation of the vessel, applying task and workload management techniques.
• Describe the causes and consequences of stress and fatigue in marine accidents and incidents.
• Demonstrate effective communication on board, and describe communication protocols commonly used at sea.
• Obtain and maintain situational awareness.
• Demonstrate crisis management techniques, and describe roles and chain of command during a shipboard emergency situation.
• Describe leadership characteristics including persona, assertiveness, and decisiveness.
• Differentiate between team and group behaviour, and demonstrate team synergy in team building exercises.
• Describe a typical error chain, and explain 'active errors' and 'latent errors'.
• Apply the Swiss cheese model to demonstrate how to identify the deep-rooted underlying causes of accidents.
• Present findings and recommendations based on case studies.

Effective as of Winter 2018