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ON-BOARD TRAINING
PHILIPPINE MEASURES
KEY AREA 5
Immediate Measures
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To address Grievance numbers 16
and 17 concerning the Training
Record Book, the following policy
improvements were made in the
Revised OBT Guidelines requiring:
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MHEIs to establish policies and
procedures in the implementation
of OBT program covering, among
others, orientation/familiarization;
enrolment;
embarkation/
disembarkation; validation of TRB
and approval of twelve months
seagoing service; validation and
approval of the thirty-six months
seagoing
service;
assessment;
validation of Daily Journal of
Watchkeeping Duties; the conduct
of updating/refresher courses, as
appropriate;
and
remediation
program of students for shipboard
training purposes (Section 3.1.1,
Revised OBT Guidelines);
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the OBT program to be managed
by a fulltime Onboard Training
Supervisor (OTS) who will not be
assigned any additional teaching
load to allow him to concentrate
on his OBT duties (Section 3.1.3.b,
Revised
OBT
Guidelines)
particularly on the conduct of a
comprehensive
orientation
to
students on the proper way of
accomplishing and filling-in of
correct entries in the Training
Record Book as well as gathering
sufficient objective evidence/s as
proof of having performed the
required tasks in the TRB;
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MHEIs, in the implementation of
the OBT Program, to monitor the
progress of students every month
to regularly check actual tasks
undertaken onboard against the
TRB and provide guidance to
ensure
they
are
properly
accomplished,
including
submission
of
appropriate
objective
evidence/s
(Section
3.1.3.b.vii., Revised OBT Guidelines)
and check for any unusual events
or incidents. In order for MHEIs to
effectively monitor the progress of
a student's OBT, it is required
under
Section 3.1.9
that
a
monitoring system be established
as part of its QSS. MHEIs are
required
to
document
all
information gathered from the
monitoring activity in a Monthly
Progress Report;
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To
address
Grievance
18
concerning MHEIs not defining the
specific training tasks or duties
required to be undertaken by the
students as part of the approved
programme of onboard training,
the preparation of an Onboard
Training Guidance (OTG) for every
student will be introduced as a
requirement in Section 3.1.4 of the
Revised OBT Guidelines.
