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Personal Safety and Social Responsibilities (PSSR)

Course Topics

  • Observe safe working practices
  • Introduction
  • Importance of the course
  • Ship Familiarization
  • Nature of shipboard hazards
  • Group of Equipment provided on board to counter these hazards and lists the items in each group
  • Use of demonstration of PPE
  • Lists operations that take place on board which can be hazardous to personnel or ship
  • Loading and Unloading of Cargo
  • Mooring and Unmooring
  • Enclosed Spaces
  • Hot Work
  • Working Aloft
  • Engine-Room Watchkeeping and Maintenance
  • Contribute to Effective Human Relationships on board ship
  • Interpersonal relationship (IPR)
  • Team building
  • Team work
  • Understand orders and be understood in relation to shipboard duties
  • Fundamentals of communication
  • Methods of communication
  • Barriers in communication
  • Effective transmission skills
  • Effective listening skills
  • Effects and consequences of wrong communication
  • Communication sum-up
  • Comply with emergency procedures
  • Explains the terms emergency
  • Drills and muster
  • Value and need of drills and training
  • Internal communication
  • Take precautions to prevent pollution of the marine environment
  • Define term pollution
  • Effects of operational or accidental pollution of the marine environment
  • International measures for pollution prevention, pollution avoidance and containment of pollutants
  • Pollution by sewage from ships
  • Pollution by garbage from ships
  • Control of oil discharge from machinery spaces and oil fuel tanks
  • Contents of Oil record book
  • Control of discharge of oil and special areas
  • Introduces the contents of Annex VI of MARPOL
  • Contribute to effective human relationship on board ship-social responsibility
  • Rights and obligations of crew
  • Employment conditions, etc
  • Drugs and alcohol
  • Health and hygiene on board
  • Summing up

Observe safe working practices

Introduction:

 

  • Safe working practices are generally methods of outlining how to perform a task with minimum risk to people, equipment, materials, environment, and processes.
  • In all onboard ship operation, it mainly focused on three factors they are :
  • Crew safety ,
  • The ship and cargo safety  and
  • Marine environment protection.
  • The seafarers should always remember that whatever they do, the bottom line in all circumstances must be – ‘Safety First’.