Westline Shipping is one of the finest shipping and provides additional Merchant marine lecturers with a great education. In the merchant navy, familiarization with ships, duties, information, and way of work is necessary which comes under onboard ship training. The new crew members undergo proper training to understand their responsibilities and take a snap of information from other departments before holding their job profile.
The primary motive of the onboard ship training is to make crew members aware of safety procedures and how to execute drills during any situation of emergency. Seafarers can do their job efficiently if they go through the excellent training of personal safety and ship’s well-being. On-board ship training decides the performance, transportation, safety, security and competitiveness of a merchant navy ship.
Elements and Focus of Training
It is the responsibility of training master to teach and learning the skill of trainee to know about the following points:
- Important documents and publication of ships
- Instructions on SOLAS (Safety of Life at Sea) and MARPOL (Convention for Prevention of Marine Pollution)
- Ship’s Fire Control Plan
- Guidelines and instructions to tackle different kinds of emergency situations aboard
- Different types of fire fighting appliances and techniques to use them
- Essential characteristics of the muster list
- Location of escape routes
- Different types of alarms on board ship
- Spot/site of immersion suits, life jackets along with the guidelines to wear them
- Procedure for abandon ship alarm
- Basics of fire prevention on ships
- Operation of water-tight doors and fire drilling
- Mandatory instructions on several drills
- Process and technique to operate fire extinguishers
- Methods to raise the alarm in accidental or emergency case
- Actions for man overboard situation
- Nearest escape route and fire extinguisher
- Passenger safety briefing
- Abandon ship drills
- Action during a medical emergency
- Hazardous material training
- STCW training