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Personal Safety and Social Responsibilities (PSSR)

Course Topics

  • Course Overview and Objectives
  • Observe Safe Working Practices
  • Adhering to Safe Working Practices
  • Ship Familiarization
  • Types of Ships and Cargoes
  • General Cargo Ships
  • Multipurpose Ships
  • Container Ships
  • Bulk Carriers
  • Ro-Ro ships
  • Oil Tankers
  • Combination Carriers
  • Chemical Tankers
  • Gas Carriers
  • Passenger Ships
  • Nautical Terms – Parts of the Ship
  • Forecastle
  • Poop Deck
  • Accommodation
  • Bridge
  • Monkey Island
  • Shipboard Hazards
  • Slippery Surfaces
  • Stairwells and Ladders
  • Dimly Lit Areas
  • Areas of Moving Machinery
  • Proper Lifting Techniques
  • Electrical Hazards
  • Hot Surfaces
  • Chemicals
  • Safety and protective devices to counter hazards
  • Fall Preventer Devices
  • Use of Personal Protective Equipment
  • Hazardous Operations on Board
  • Loading and Unloading of Cargoes
  • Mooring and Unmooring
  • Precautions Prior to Entering Enclosed Spaces
  • Hot work
  • Working aloft
  • Watch Keeping
  • Deck personnel
  • Engine room personnel
  • Accident prevention and occupational health
  • Occupational Safety and Health
  • Contribute to effective human relationships on board ship
  • Interpersonal Relationships
  • Human relationships
  • Personal Relationship on board
  • Team building
  • Team Work
  • Communication
  • Motivation
  • Team working skills and conflict resolution
  • Groups and Teams
  • Organisation and Your Role
  • Conflict at Work
  • Contribute to effective communication on board ship
  • Communication is Understanding
  • Test Your Understanding
  • Five cs Of Communication
  • Clarity
  • Completeness
  • Conciseness
  • Correctness
  • Consistency
  • Methods of communication
  • Verbal and Paraverbal Communication
  • Types Of Verbal Communication
  • Paraverbal Communication
  • Non-verbal Communication
  • Element of Non- verbal Communication
  • Types of Non- verbal Communication – Posture and Facial Expression
  • Types of non verbal communication - Gestures
  • Strategies for Improving Your Communication
  • Barriers in Communication
  • General Barriers
  • Physical Barriers
  • Perceptual Barriers
  • Emotional Barriers
  • Cultural Barriers
  • Language Barriers
  • Gender Barriers
  • Lack of Subject Knowledge
  • Barriers to Effective Listening
  • Barriers to Effective Speaking
  • Barriers to Effective Writing
  • Effective Listening skills
  • Listening Carefully
  • Listening Versus Hearing
  • Bad Habits of Listening
  • Barriers to Effective Listening 1
  • Improving Listening Skills
  • Effective communication
  • Interacting with Shipboard Personnel
  • Interaction with Shore personnel
  • Communication Prior to Departure
  • Comply with emergency procedures
  • Types of emergencies
  • Collision
  • fire
  • Foundering
  • Grounding
  • Flooding
  • Blackout
  • Shipboard Contingency Plans for response to emergencies
  • Emergency Signals
  • Fire Alarm Signal
  • Abandon ship
  • Shipboard alarms location, purpose and function
  • General Alarms
  • Ship’s whistle
  • Ship’s bell
  • CO2 Alarms
  • Machinery Space and Engineer's Call Alarms
  • Fire Detectors
  • Distress signals
  • Pyrotechnics
  • Life-saving signals
  • Line throwing appliances
  • Search and Rescue
  • Muster list, Muster stations
  • Duties allocated to crew members in the Muster List
  • Duties assigned with the location of crew’s lifeboat station
  • Use of personal safety equipment
  • Lifebuoys
  • Lifejackets
  • Immersion Suits
  • Thermal protective aids
  • Anti-exposure Suits
  • Fireman’s outfit
  • Breathing Apparatus
  • Emergency Escape Breathing Device
  • Resuscitation apparatus
  • Actions upon hearing the emergency alarm signals
  • Value of training and drills
  • Internal communication, alarm systems, escape routes
  • Internal Phone System
  • Sound powered phone system
  • Intercom
  • Voice tubes
  • Hand-held Radios
  • Take precautions to prevent pollution of the marine environment
  • Impact of shipping on marine environment
  • Sources of Marine Pollution
  • Complexity and diversity of the marine environment
  • Effects of operational or accidental pollution by ships
  • Environmental protection procedures
  • MARPOL 73/78
  • Annex I - Regulations for the Prevention of Pollution by Oil
  • Annex II - Regulations for the Control of Pollution by Noxious Liquid Substances in bulk
  • Annex III - Regulations for the Prevention of Pollution by Harmful Substances Carried by Sea in Packaged Form
  • Annex IV - Regulations for the Prevention of Pollution by Sewage from Ships
  • Annex V - Regulations for the Prevention of Pollution by Garbage from Ships
  • Annex VI - Regulations for the Prevention of Air Pollution from Ships
  • Oil Discharge Monitoring and Control System (ODMCS)
  • Special Areas and PSSAs
  • MARPOL Equipment
  • Oil Record Book
  • Oil Record Book, Part I - Machinery space operations
  • Oil Record Book, Part II – Cargoballast operations
  • Ballast Water Management Convention
  • Treatment Methods
  • Ballast Water Treatment Technologies
  • Anti-Fouling Systems
  • Operational procedures
  • During bunkering
  • During loadingdischarging Oil Cargo
  • During tank Cleaning and Pumping out Bilges
  • Social responsibilities
  • Rights and obligations of crew
  • Employment conditions
  • Implementing Maritime Labour Convention 2006
  • Dangers of Drug and Alcohol
  • Drug Abuse and Treatment
  • Amphetamine
  • Anabolic steroids
  • Cocaine
  • Heroin
  • Inhalants
  • Marijuana
  • Morphine
  • Alcoholism
  • Acute and Chronic Alcoholism
  • Causes of Alcoholism
  • Effects of Chronic Alcoholism
  • Treatment of Alcoholism
  • Health and hygiene on board
  • Stay healthy
  • Eating Disorders
  • Prevention of AIDS
  • About the Virus
  • HIV Life cycle
  • HIV Transmission
  • Signs and Symptoms
  • Understand and take necessary actions to control fatigue
  • Importance of obtaining necessary rest
  • Effects of sleep, schedules, circadian rhythm
  • Effects of physical stressors on seafarers
  • Stress - Types and Causes
  • Effects of environmental stressors on seafarers
  • Effects of changes on seafarer fatigue
  • Measures to reduce fatigue and stress on board

Course Overview and Objectives

Course Overview and Objectives

 

Personal Safety and Social Responsibilities

 

Overview

The PSSR course is designed to give a basic induction in safety procedures and accident prevention and to familiarize one with the working environment on board merchant ships. The course will meet the competency and training requirements of Section A-VI/1 and Table A VI/1-4 of the STCW Code, as amended in 2010.

 

The course contains a number of areas:

 

Personal well-being; Safe Working Practice; Stress in workplace; Emergency Procedures; Prevention of pollution in the marine environment; Shipboard organization and understanding shipboard duties; Effective human relationships on board vessels; Human element; Drug, alcohol and sexual abuse.

 

Pollution is a common enemy of mankind; and while the land based pollution has been causing global warming in a more significant way, as a seafarer you do have a serious responsibility to preserve the purity of the sea and make sure it is not polluted because of human action onboard. Any major pollution from ship not only creates environmental disorder, it is also prohibited by law; violation of which could create prison terms for crew apart from the ship being fined in millions of dollars.

 

Personnel joining ships must understand how the ship is manned and commanded. There is no room for misunderstanding orders and instructions which could create accidents. In doing the shipboard duty, one needs to be aware of the cultural and gender differences amongst crew members and learn to live and work with different personalities within the confines of the ship; abide by company procedures and follow legal, moral and ethical codes of behavior. 

 

General Learning Objectives

After completing this topic, you should be able to,

  • Recognize shipboard emergencies; 
  • Know the ways to combat emergencies on board;
  • Understand the importance of pollution prevention at sea;
  • Know how to take precautions to prevent pollution;
  • Know the safe working practices to be practised on shipboard work;
  • Understand the importance of good communication on board;
  • Know how to be effective in various types of communication;
  • Understand the importance and how to maintain good human relationships;
  • Know individual rights of crew and protection procedures against harassment;
  • Understand the importance of your personal well-being;
  • Know how to maintain a healthy life style on board;
  • Know how to deal with stress and fatigue;
  • Realize the dangers of drug, alcohol and aids at sea.