RECALLING Article 28(b) of the Convention on the International
Maritime Organization concerning the functions of the Committee,
RECALLING ALSO resolution A.886(21) on Procedure for the
adoption of, and amendments to, performance standards and technical
specifications, by which the Assembly resolved that the function of
adoption of performance standards and technical specifications, as
well as amendments thereto, shall be performed by the Maritime Safety
Committee,
RECOGNIZING the need to prepare performance standards harmonizing
the priority, classification, handling, distribution and presentation
of alerts, to enable the bridge team to devote full attention to the
safe operation of the ship and to immediately identify any alert situation
requiring action to maintain the safe operation of the ship,
RECOGNIZING ALSO that a central alert management human machine
interface (CAM-HMI) for presenting alerts as individual alerts or
as aggregated alerts supports the bridge team in the immediate identification
of any abnormal situation, of the source and reason for the abnormal
situation and in its decisions for the necessary actions to be taken,
NOTING that further guidance on the presentation of alerts
is provided in the Code on Alerts and Indicators, 2009 (resolution A.1021(26)) which is intended
to provide general design guidance and to promote uniformity of type,
location and priority for alerts and indicators,
HAVING CONSIDERED, at its eighty-seventh session, the recommendation
made by the Sub-Committee on Safety of Navigation at its fifty-fifth
session,
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1. ADOPTS the Performance standards for bridge
alert management, set out in the Annex to the present resolution;
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2. RECOMMENDS Governments:
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.1 to encourage the use of Bridge Alert Management
on the ships flying their flags;
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.2 that central alert management (CAM) and central
alert management human machine interface (CAM-HMI), if installed on
the bridge on or after 1 July 2014, conform to performance standards
not inferior to those set out in Annex to the present resolution;
and
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.3 to encourage that the general requirements
of modules A and C of the performance standards set out in Annex to
the present resolution are applied to relevant equipment on the bridge
presenting alerts on or after 1 July 2014.