Bridge Resource Management (Including Simulation)

About this course

This course benefits all members of the deck department and is suitable for personnel serving on all types of vessels, including large yachts. It is designed to meet the bridge resource management requirements detailed in Table A-II/I of the 2010 Manila amendments to the STCW Convention and Code. 

During the course you will have the opportunity to consider your role in the working environment while benefiting from a range of tools and techniques aimed at ensuring effective performance.   

You will also spend 50 per cent of your time in our bridge simulators giving you practical opportunities to practice and demonstrate the bridge resource management skills you'll develop throughout the course. You’ll be fully supported throughout and thoroughly debriefed as part of the learning experience. 

The course is company specific and run on demand, requiring a minimum of six and up to a maximum of 12 candidates attending. 

What you'll learn

• Situational awareness: How to acquire and maintain situational awareness and understand the factors that can result in its decline and its central role in reducing accidents and increasing safety margins.  
• Communication: How to recognise and apply best practice in communication and be aware of barriers to communication and how these may adversely affect situational awareness. Recognition of interpersonal style and the appropriate development of assertiveness in a bridge environment.  
• Culture: How to recognise and respond to cultural issues, covering cultural awareness and bias including national, organisational, departmental and personal cultural approaches. 
• Leadership and Team Work: How to identify appropriate leadership styles and effective team working; situational leadership and the understanding of team dynamics. 
• Workload: How to understand where your role fits in the shipboard environment and how to manage the priorities that arise from it. Recognising stressors, how stress and fatigue may affect you and your colleagues and identifying coping mechanisms.