MRM Training

Our Organisation

Liverpool Pilotage Services Limited became the first UK based accredited organisation to offer Maritime Resource Management (MRM) Training on behalf of the The Swedish Club Academy in 2008. To date we have delivered courses both at our facilities on Merseyside and across the United Kingdom primarily to Pilot Organisations, ships masters and senior officers holding pilot exemption certificates and VTS officers with the intent on concentrating on the final stages of any vessels voyage and that is its Port Entry.

At the beginning of December 2011 The Maritime and Coastguard Agency gave Liverpool Pilotage Services Limited, non mandatory approval to deliver The Swedish Club Academy MRM Course at its training establishment on Merseyside.

The Course

Maritime Resource Management – MRM Course
(Formerly – Bridge Resource Management – BRM)

Why MRM ?

Analysis has shown that a large number of dangerous shipboard situations arise due to poor communication or coordination, rather than technical failures or lack of skill. 

Common causes include:

• Failure to communicate intent and plans 
• Preoccupation with minor technical problems or administrative tasks
• Failure to delegate tasks and assign responsibilities
• Failure to set priorities
• Inadequate monitoring
• Failure to utilise available data
• Failure to detect deviations from standard operating procedures

It was to overcome these issues that The Swedish Club in the early 1990s joined forces with six other major maritime organisations and the SAS Flight Academy to establish the global Bridge Resource Management (BRM) training initiative. The transfer of expertise in resource management from the civil aviation sector to the maritime industries was one of the central aims in developing the BRM Course, the first of its kind in the maritime industry. 

Following a further development of the original course, The Swedish Club has replaced the training term "BRM" with the new and more extensive term "MRM" – Maritime Resource Management. 
 

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 personal communication, excellence in leadership skills and compliance with operating procedures. 

MRM is ideal for deck and engineering officers, together with maritime pilots and shore-based personnel. The objective is to ensure that sound resource management practices underpin everyday operations. The principles covered include:

• Recognition of the significance of consistent good management and teamwork
• A willingness to change behaviour in a positive direction
• Awareness of the importance of using a common terminology

The course features a series of workshops delivered by carefully selected and trained workshop leaders. Errors and hazardous behaviour are analysed in a dynamic group situation and actual incidents and accidents are explored from a MRM perspective. The workshops are supported by computer based training modules that examine human interaction and management situations influencing the accident event. 

Refresher courses are recommended to ensure permanent, positive attitude changes. 

STCW 2010 (Manila Amendments)

The Maritime Resource Management course meets the requirements laid down in the IMO International Convention on Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping for Seafarers, 1978, as amended by the Manila Amendments, in the following areas:

• Table A-II/1 (Bridge resource management and Application of leadership and teamworking skills)

• Table A-II/2 (Use of leadership and managerial skill)

• Table A-III/1 (Engine-room resource management and Application of leadership and teamworking skills)

• Table A-III/2 (Use of leadership and managerial skill)