Training and Competencies for Australia's

Offshore Support Vessel Operations

Capt. Nihar Rai

Director Maritime Studies

School of Maritime Studies, WA Maritime Training Centre,

Challenger Institute of Technology,

Fremantle

24 June 2015

Education & Training Maintaining Competence Safety Culture

Introduction

“Education” and “Training” are often used interchangeably, but is there difference between the two?

Education & Training

“If your teenage son/daughter told you that he/she was going to take a sex education course at high school, you might be pleased.” “What if he/she announced that he/she was going to take part in some sex training at school?”

Education is about learning the concepts.

Education & Training

Training is about gaining the skills to do something rather than just knowing. This includes education relating to the skills.

Competence is possession of required skills, knowledge, qualification, and/or capacity which may be achieved after training.

Maintaining Competence

Maintaining competence is the ability to continually demonstrate competency after training has ceased.

Safety culture is the ways in which safety is managed in the workplace, and often reflects “the attitudes, beliefs, perceptions and values that employees share in relation to safety”

Safety Culture

The role of training and competency validation in embedding a safety culture

Customized training and development for supporting maritime offshore oil and gas

Measuring success thru retaining competent workforce by refreshing and up-skilling

Objectives of the session

Embedding Safety Culture

PPE is required only if all hazards can’t be removed.

IG is required only if all sources of ignition can’t be removed.

How safe can one try to be?

Make Safety a habit...

Embedding Safety Culture

Education, Training and reinforcement.

Until Safety becomes a second nature.

Heard about “Unconscious Competence”?

The Cycle of Competence

The Cycle of Competence

School of Maritime Studies

Training New Generation

Fears: Social status, financial hardship, under achievement

Attitudes: Over confident, need less rigour, more flexibility

Emotions: Mental block, over ambitious, arrogance etc.

Volume of Learning

The amount of training must enable a learner to: meet the requirements of each training product, and gain the skills and knowledge specified in the relevant training product.

The amount of training will be determined by: the training product the learner cohort, and the mode of delivery.

Competency Validation

In order to validate competency achieved by a learner, they must first:

be trained in each skill and knowledge area, have the opportunity to practice and apply these skills and knowledge requirements.

Each learner must get an opportunity to: fully absorb the required knowledge, develop skills over time in the different contexts they would experience in the workplace.

Training provides for embedding and inculcating safety by communicating the cultural standards

Provides exposure to desired safety knowledge and relevant skills base

Ensures familiarisation with health and safety guidelines

Sets foundation and understanding for the advancement in operational best practices in conjunction with Human Performance and Limitations

The Role of Training

Statutory or regulatory training

STCW Manila amendments

New training standards for new COC applicants

Refresher and updated training for existing seafarers

Emerging Demands

Seafarers need training to meet new requirements of

Maritime Resource Management Electronic Chart Display Information System (ECDIS) Maritime Labour Convention Security Awareness Fire and Sea Survival

Statutory Training

Ship Bridge Management Oil and Gas Cargo Management Engine Room Management Automation and Integration Technologies

Customised Training

Generic and Type Specific Familiarisation Procedural Management Systems Competency Evaluation ROV Pilot Training

Customised Training

Client cases:

Mackenzie Marine and Towage, Esperance – Master<35m METL – Integrated Rating Sea Swift Qld – Integrated Rating KT Maritime – Integrated Rating

Flexible Training Model

Safety Vs Productivity Trigger and Reaction process

Safety Vs Compliance Vs Profits It’s like - Keeping a Lookout

Training as a Mechanism Provides overarching framework for success

Training advocates retention of current workforce

Refresher and updated training ensures continuation of current competencies Provides a platform for networking to develop peer to peer learning engagement or mentoring Encourages employee-employer confidence level thus promoting expansive commitment

Measuring Success

Training enables continuous development for professionals

Promotes opportunity for up-scaling and advancement of career

Feeds the self-actualisation needs of the professionals & develops Emotional Intelligence

“It Professionalizes the Profession”

Measuring Success

Challenger Institute of Technology: Advantages of a strategic approach to training

Provides “One Stop Shop” solution for maritime education and training

Customised training and development for the industry to suit the statutory and non-statutory training requirements

Focus on effective pedagogy to ensure holistic training for professionalized seafarers

Conclusion

THANKS