This course provides senior officers with the knowledge and skills to gather and digest information, to make rational decisions based on the facts during an emergency, to recognize how preplanning and preparation and training will assist in the overall emergency management process.

CONTENT

• Contingency plans
• The orientation and emergency training of crew members
• Emergency management
• Muster lists
• Drills using pre-planned initial responses
• Drills while responding to changing situations
• Management “schemas”                             
• Leadership style for use during an emergency at sea
• Communications strategies
• Damage control
• Vessel stability pre-planning
• Leak stopping and shoring
• Abandon ship
• Search and Rescue
• Role and authority of the Rescue Coordination Centers
• Role and authority of the On Scene Commander during a distress situation
• Establishing search patterns using IAMSAR volume 3 or CANMERSAR
• Using onboard first aid / medical manuals to assist in a major medical / industrial emergency
• Developing strategies and procedures for handling medical emergencies / industrial accidents in a marine environment

TRAINING METHODOLOGY

The training methodology combines lectures, discussions, group exercises and illustrations. Participants will gain both theoretical and practical knowledge of the topics. The emphasis is on the practical application of the topics and as a result participant will go back to the workplace with both the ability and the confidence to apply the techniques learned to their duties.