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Sections A-VI/1, A-VI/2 and A-VI/3 of the STCW Code require seafarers to
provide evidence, every five years, that they have the required standard
of competence. In this respect refresher courses subject to approval by
MARINA are organised. They focus on some of the competences specified
in Sections A-VI/1, A-VI/2 and A-VI/3 of the STCW Code and aimed to
ensure compliance with the provisions of the Code that require seafarers
to provide evidence, every five years, that they have maintained the
required standard of competence in the areas for which on-board
training and experience cannot be accepted as such evidence, as
established in those sections.
However, the standards developed by MARINA for two refresher courses
and one regular course did not address some competence areas that
those courses should have covered:
•
Table A-VI/2-2 includes the specification of the minimum standards
of competence in fast rescue boats.
However, the refresher course on “personal survival techniques”
developed by MARINA did not include training in “board a
survival craft from the water while wearing a lifejacket” (Column
3), which is one of the methods for demonstrating the
competence ‘survive at sea in the event of ship abandonment’
(Column 1) required in Table A-VI/1-1.
Therefore, MARINA does not ensure that the programmes allow
seafarers to provide the evidence of having maintained the
standard of competence required therein;
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KEY AREA 1
PROGRAMME AND COURSE DESIGN, REVIEW AND APPROVAL
