2022 PHILIPPINE RESPONSE - Report - Page 181
The STCW Code, in its Sections A-II/1,
paragraph 6.1, and A-III/1, paragraph 2.1,
respectively,
requires
that
every
candidate for certification as OOW or as
OEW whose seagoing service forms
part of an approved programme shall
follow an approved programme of
onboard training and that during the
required period of seagoing service, the
candidates receive systematic practical
training and experience in the tasks,
duties and responsibilities of an OOW
or of an OEW, as appropriate.
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However, this allowed several full
competences not to be practised and
demonstrated and, therefore, not
subject to a full assessment.
Other MHEIs required students to carry
out remedial actions when they did not
have the opportunity to practise either
several defined tasks, or a percentage of
the tasks defined in the TRB. These
remedial actions were extra classes on
the subjects not practised on board or
individual meetings of about 15
minutes with an instructor or assessor.
KEY AREA 5
Section A-I/2 of the STCW Code in its
paragraph 5 requires that the service
concerned
is
relevant
to
the
qualification being applied for, bearing
in mind that, apart from the initial
familiarization with service in seagoing
ships, the purpose of such service is to
allow the seafarer to be instructed in
and to practice, under appropriate
supervision, those safe and proper
seagoing practices, procedures and
routines which are relevant to the
qualification applied for.
In most cases, students on board had
few opportunities to practice all the
tasks and duties listed in their TRBs. The
MHEIs
had
established
as
a
requirement, as a way of considering
the on-board training as completed,
that at least a certain number of the
tasks listed in the TRBs (this varied
between 50% and 80% of the tasks) had
to be signed as completed by the ship’s
master or responsible officer.
