Resolution 5 - Training in crisis management and human behaviour for personnel serving on board ro-ro passenger ships
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Resolution 5 - Training in crisis management and human behaviour for personnel serving on board ro-ro passenger ships

 THE CONFERENCE,

HAVING ADOPTED the 1995 amendments to the International Convention on Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping for Seafarers (STCW), 1978, and the International Seafarers' Training, Certification and Watchkeeping (STCW) Code,

CONSIDERING regulation V/2.8 of the STCW Convention, as amended, which requires masters, chief mates, chief engineer officers, second engineer officers and any person having responsibility for the safety of passengers in emergency situations to be trained in crisis management and human behaviour,

CONSIDERING ALSO that the STCW Code, inter alia, requires that such training shall be to the satisfaction of the Administration based on standards developed by the International Maritime Organization,

NOTING that the Maritime Safety Committee of the Organization, at its sixty-fifth session, agreed that crisis management and human behaviour training is essential for key personnel on ro-ro passenger ships and should include the following elements:

  • human behaviour and responses,
  • optimizing the use of resources,
  • development of emergency plans,
  • leadership skills,
  • stress handling, and
  • communication,

ALSO NOTING the opinion of the Maritime Safety Committee that the details of such crisis management and human behaviour training have to be further developed to include the knowledge, understanding and proficiency to be achieved, the method for demonstrating competence and the criteria for evaluating competence before they are included in part A of the STCW Code,

INVITES the International Maritime Organization to develop, as a matter of urgency, detailed provisions on the training of personnel on ro-ro passenger ships in crisis management and human behaviour, for possible inclusion in the STCW Code.

Parent topic: Attachment 3 to the Final Act of the Conference
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