Personal Safety and Social Responsibility

Prerequisites: None. Participants must be aged 16 or over.

Certificate validity: This certificate has no expiry

Certification: Upon successful completion you will receive a certificate in STCW Personal Safety and Social Responsibilities approved by the Maritime Coastguard Agency as laid down in STCW 95 Regulation VI/1 paragraph 2.1.4 of Section A-VI/1 of the STCW Code.

Duration: 4 Hours

Cost: £125.00 inc vat (Please note all prices include vat @20%)

Location: South West Maritime Academy, Cromhall Quarry, Cromhall, South Gloucestershire, GL12 8AA

Personal Safety and Social Responsibility

Subjects covered in this course will include:

• Human relationships on-board vessel.
• Vessel crew organisational structure and employment terms.
• Understanding orders and how to be understood in relation to duties on your vessel.
• Awareness of and compliance with various emergency procedures.
• Safe working practices.
• Precautions to prevent pollution of the marine environment.
• Social responsibilities on a vessel.

Course Content:

• Complying with emergency procedures
• Observing safe working practices
• Understanding orders and being understood in relation to shipboard duties
• Contributing to effective human relationships on board ship
• Types of emergency which may occur, such as collision, fire foundering
• Knowledge of shipboard contingency plans for responses to emergencies
• Effect of operational or accidental pollution of the marine environment
• Basic environmental protection procedures
• Importance of maintaining good human working relationships aboard ship
• Social responsibilities; employment conditions; individual rights and obligations; dangers of drug and alcohol abuse

The STCW PSSR course can be taken as a stand alone course or as an integral part of our STCW Basic Safety Training course package.