Culture, Law and Policy

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This course provides a comprehensive understanding of NAVAREAs (Navigational Areas) and their critical role in maritime safety. Trainees will learn about the structure of NAVAREAs, the dissemination of Maritime Safety Information (MSI), and the responsibilities of NAVAREA Coordinators. The course covers key broadcasting systems like SafetyNET and NAVTEX, the integration of MSI into voyage planning, and real-life case studies highlighting the consequences of ignoring navigational warnings.

Level 3 Supervising food safety at sea is aimed to help supervisors and managers on board to support, train and implement excellent food safety practices as part of the food safety management system.

This course provides practical knowledge on handling corrosive cargoes safely on tanker vessels. It covers cargo properties, potential hazards, personal protective equipment (PPE), spill response procedures, and compliance with environmental regulations to ensure safety and operational efficiency.

This course provides training on synthetic mooring ropes, covering their care, maintenance, inspection, and safe usage. It includes best practices for mooring operations, safety precautions, and guidelines from the latest industry standards, such as MEG4. Participants will learn to maximise rope performance while ensuring safety and operational efficiency.

Food safety is taken very seriously onboard. This short course is an awareness for all crew in the role they play in supporting food safety. Your shipping company ensures all food handlers have the correct compliance training and implement a food safety management system.

This training is designed to enable crew to understand Public health, sanitation and infection control to commensurate with their job role. Public health has become more prominent since the global pandemic of COVID 19, however public health and outbreak management has always been high priority on board.

This short course is to help all crew understand why hand-washing is important as part of everyday good practice onboard.

In this innovative course, you will learn how to use Google’s Teachable Machine to promote and implement sustainability practices in the workplace. The course is designed for individuals and organisations aiming to foster eco-friendly habits through accessible machine-learning tools.

The worst has happened, the ship or boat you are on has to be abandoned, and you find yourself in a liferaft. In the raft, you find a SART. It's up to you to seek assistance. The aim of this course is to give you the knowledge and confidence to use a SART in an emergency.

In this short course, we will watch a video of an incident and then analyse it to see what went wrong and what could have been done to prevent this incident.

This course guides engineers in carrying out a self-audit to prepare the vessel for inspections (Sire 2.0, RISQ, PSC, Flag State, etc). It helps engineers know the requirements, and the vessel in greater depth within a structured manner.

A successful self-audit requires crew knowledge and preparedness about what is expected to be examined during an inspection. This is for documentation, hardware, critical and emergency operations, and the standards of testing.