005/06

Recommendation Date
Recipient Name
Strait Shipping
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Put in place procedures to reinforce the need for effective bridge resources management on board the company's ships. This should include the requirement that the full bridge team are on the bridge before departure, and that administrative work is separated from the navigation function of the ship's officers.
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BRM: the company has instituted a regime of BRM courses during which all watch keeping officers will be refreshed in BRM techniques the first of these was held in November the next scheduled for April 2006, hopefully courses permitting all watch keeping officers will have their BRM training refreshed by the end of 2006.

The requirement that a full bridge team be in position before departure and that administrative work be separated from the navigational function of the ships officers was put in place via memo immediately after the incident.
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