Marine Resource Management
in cooperation with
MARITIME RESOURCE MANAGEMENT COURSE
Liverpool Pilotage Services Ltd is the only UK based organisation authorised to offer Maritime Resource Management, by the Swedish Club. One of the pioneering organisations in the field of “Bridge Resource Management”
Please follow the link to the Swedish Club’s website for information.
As Pilots we have emphasised the Pilot’s role within the “Team” and give the course from the Pilots perspective.
The course is classroom based, runs for 2 days and is for a minimum of 6 & maximum of 12 people.
We will be running courses throughout 2009 here on the Wirral.
Alternatively we can come to you if you have your own classroom facilities.
For more information please contact Liverpool Pilotage Services Ltd
Email:
Tel: 0151 647 3352
Below is a brief introduction to Maritime Resource Management (MRM).
The Maritime Resource Management (MRM) Course is a further development of the original SAS Bridge Resource Management Course. This was the shipping industry’s first resource management training programme. The original course was developed in close co-operation by the following eight organisations: Dutch Maritime Pilots’ Corporation, Finnish Maritime Administration, Norwegian Ship-owners’ Association, SAS Flight Academy, Silja Line, Swedish Maritime Administration, Swedish Ship-owners’ Association and The Swedish Club. The first course was launched in June 1993.
In 2003, The Swedish Club and its licensees decided to change the course name from BRM to MRM. The new name reflects both the contents and objectives of the course more accurately while all target groups – bridge officers, engineers, pilots and shore-based personnel – will feel comfortable with it. We regard “Maritime Resource Management” as the overall concept for this type of training. Masters and deck officers may very well refer to this concept as “Bridge Resource Management” (BRM) while engineers may talk about “Engine Room Resource Management” (ERM). The principles will be the same.
The MRM course is designed to minimise the risk of incidents by encouraging safe and responsible behaviour. It aims to foster positive attitudes favouring good communication, teamwork, excellence in leadership skills and compliance with standard operating procedures.
The objective is to ensure that sound resource management practices underpin everyday operations.
Resource management training deals with management in highly operational situations, for example on board ship’s bridges, in engine rooms, in control rooms of power plants, in aircraft cockpits, and even in medical operating theatres.
It is a fact that the way human beings interact, communicate and make decisions in such situations is quite similar. So management errors are also similar.
The base for this course was developed in the airline industry as a result of research, which showed that most aircraft accidents are caused not by technical errors but by crew management errors. Examples of such errors are preoccupation with minor technical problems, failure to delegate tasks and assign responsibilities, failure to set priorities, inadequate monitoring, failure to use available data, failure to communicate intent and plans, and failure to detect and challenge deviations from standard operating procedures.
Lack of competence is actually a minor reason for accidents.
This is also true for shipping. SAS Flight Academy, The Swedish Club and six other major maritime organisations joined to convert an airline pilot training programme to this programme for ship and shore based crew.
A questionnaire was sent out to seven hundred mariners, and over three hundred replies were received. Their input helped in the design of this course.
So, where are we heading? What kind of behaviour are we looking for as a result of this course? Well, research shows that successful teams exposed to critical situations perform as follows:
They have good situational awareness - that is they anticipate what is coming next.
They obtain relevant information early.
They build a shared mental model of the situation.
They use cautious, safe strategies and keep options open as long as possible.
Their decisions are realistic and sensitive to constraints.
They share workload.
They monitor progress by cross-checking each other.
Such performance is one of the main objectives of Maritime Resource Management training.
We also believe that the principles of how you manage a highly operational situation with a team of skilled individuals are the same for personnel categories such as:
Navigating officers
Engineers,
Maritime pilots
and for all vessel types, for example:
Tankers
Container ships
Bulk carriers
General cargo ships
High speed vessels
Passenger ferries
Navy vessels.
During the course, you will be reviewing several cases of accidents and incidents at sea, proving the points we have highlighted in this course. The case studies chosen have been selected for their suitability in that respect, and because documentation concerning them has been easily available.