Safety at Sea

[Jim Dixon]

Again can we get onto Safety rather that these self revelations and fantasies. With respect to STCW I think we all realize it was the LCD. The question is how it impacted on Safety. I have suggested 'Awareness' and I was expecting some constructive arguments.

[Keith Tindell]

Here's a guy who only likes to listen to himself me thinks, should just go and talk to the mirror, that way you get the answers you are looking for, kt

[cappy]

Again can we get onto Safety I was expecting some constructive arguments.

well say something about safety ..instead of whinging all the time....on any of your past comments if you have been a ships master your input is extremely poor

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Here's a guy who only likes to listen to himself me thinks, should just go and talk to the mirror, that way you get the answers you are looking for, kt

####got the ticket keith but thats about all .....sad ...cappy

[j.sabourn]

Don't know what certification has todo with safety in any case that subject was brought into the equation in any case by others. Unless it was to see if everyone knew the rule of the road. All I was told about safety was done on specialist courses. They used to on some ships include one from every department at their safety meetings. As regards fantasys whose been talking about naked women.? JS.

[cappy]

##this bloke somehow doesnt seem to realise we are not a captive audience ..who must pander to his train of thought well they might do it in hong kong but not in my world

[j.sabourn]

Talking of Hong Kong maybe the Chinese could give it to fat boy in NK. As a pacifier. Wonder if they have thought of that one yet. Just about tried everything else. JS

[John Arton]

This is the article I was trying to put the link to, possibly you will have to increase screen size to read. The guy has based his model on the old pac
man game, but to me its just a variant of the "what if" I talked about earlier. As an aside when C.P. changed their funnel colours and design (see a Carnival funnel for the design), one employees young son described the design as being Pac Man. The guff put out by H.O. in Montreal (remember this logo went on every C.P.R. company was that the white bit was part of a square representing solidarity, the green bit represented a forward thinking arrow and the other represented world wide. Load of ********!!! C.P.R. paid a "expert" media outfit $250,000 Canadian to come up with that load of tosh.
A practical model of Safety
Happy to share my model of safety which appears in this month (September 2017) edition of the Nautical Institute journal Seaways. This original model also appears in my book Golden Stripes- Leadership on the High Seas, and explains in more details the concepts of safety management and safety culture, in a different yet memorable way.

pacman.jpg
Comments and questions most welcome.
As regards STCW
Here is the Convention, some very interesting reading there. What has changed most is that in virtually all categories of tickets, the candidates have to "demonstrate a knowledge of and understanding of" the various topics, whereas prior to STCW you had direct questions that you had to answer in all the papers.
Lecturers in Nautical Colleges lecturing students in O.O.W., Chief Mate and Masters, have to "develop the learners understanding of" any particular subject.
STCW Convention
Going back to Safety, in C.P. 2nd Mates were the Safety Officers and we all had to attended a Safety Officers Course in Southampton and very good it was too. We were all issued with an certificate that was recognised by Factories Acts inspectors, the equivalent of NEBOSH these days. The course lasted a week and covered all aspects even down to the best makeup of people to form an effective safety committee. The R.F.A. were big users and the course was headed up by an ex. Pan Ocean Captain.
rgds
J.A.

[Jim Dixon]

Don't know what certification has todo with safety in any case that subject was brought into the equation in any case by others. Unless it was to see if everyone knew the rule of the road. All I was told about safety was done on specialist courses. They used to on some ships include one from every department at their safety meetings. As regards fantasys whose been talking about naked women.? JS.

And you believe that? That is worrying.

[j.sabourn]

Doesn't worry me in the slightest. JS

[Jim Dixon]

Well it would me. Safety can be closely linked with common sense and as I have said that common sense is not something that can be directly taught. Would you not think that awareness and its link to mentoring and training has anything to do with it.?