2022 PHILIPPINE RESPONSE - Report - Page 177
In accordance with Regulations II/1 and
III/1 of the STCW Convention and
Sections A-II/1.6 and A-III/1.2 of the
STCW Code, Parties are required to
ensure that every candidate for the
certification as OOW and OEW, as
appropriate, follow an approved
programme of onboard training which
is adequately documented in an
approved training record book
However, the inspection identified
that there was no record in the TRBs
concerning the performance of tasks
associated with the competences
required by Table A-II/1 and Table AIII/1 of the STCW Code, although
these competences were marked as
demonstrated.
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Hence,
as
evidenced
by
the
inconsistencies in the information
documented in the TRBs, the MHEIs do
not ensure that the on-board training
is structured as necessary to achieve
the
prescribed
standard
of
competency, as required by Section
A-I/6.1.1 and Sections A-II/1 and A-III/1
of the STCW Code.
Therefore,
these
inconsistencies
indicate that the education is in fact
not provided in an appropriate
manner and the experience on board
is not fully acquired by the students.
KEY AREA 5
In addition, when there was a record
of the performance of relevant tasks,
the
dates
indicating
the
accomplishment of those tasks were
later than the dates on which the
respective
competences
were
recorded
as
having
been
demonstrated.
In other cases, there were tasks, such as
those related to the COLREGs, in which
the knowledge and application of all
regulations were demonstrated on
the same day or over two consecutive
days, a situation that is not possible as
a ship cannot be, for instance, in the
same day or even in a two-day period in
the middle of the ocean and in coastal
waters, in polar waters and tropical
waters, in heavy traffic and without
traffic at all.
