Shipboard familiarization
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Statutory Documents - IMO Publications and Documents - Circulars - Maritime Safety Committee - MSC.1/Circular.1443 – Interim Guidance to Private Maritime Security Companies Providing Privately Contracted Armed Security Personnel on Board Ships in the High Risk Area1 – (25 May 2012) - Annex – Interim Guidance to Private Maritime Security Companies Providing Privately Contracted Armed Security Personnel on Board Ships in the High Risk Area1 - 5 Deployment considerations - Shipboard familiarization

Shipboard familiarization

  5.11 PMSC should request assurances from the shipowner that the master and crew have received familiarization with the role of the onboard PCASP security team. Exercising of the crew with the PCASP should occur during the ship's voyage, prior to entering the HRA, to ensure that all involved understand their roles in completing counter piracy preventive measures and what is expected of them during an incident when the PCASP is deployed and takes action against a pirate attack of the ship.

  5.12 PMSC should ensure, in consultation with the shipowner and master (subject to any additional requirements of the flag State), that the onboard team have received, as a minimum, shipboard familiarization training including life-saving, safety and fire-fighting requirements and communication protocols.


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