Bridge Resource Management for Small Ships: The Watchkeeper's Manual for Limited-Tonnage Vessels (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780071550079)

Your vessel may be equipped with the most advanced technology and the most powerful engines, but the failure to apply the basic principles of bridge resource management can still prevent you from getting where you are going.

Satellite systems, ARPA, electronic charts, AIS, sophisticated communication equipment and integrated navigational systems--all these advanced technologies provide valuable capabilities. But accidents still happen, and they usually involve human error. This simple fact has made Bridge Resource Management (BRM) training a requirement for watchkeepers worldwide. Bridge Resource Management for Small Ships: The Watchkeeper's Manual for Limited-Tonnage Vessels is the first book to address the unique needs of operators of small ships (limited-tonnage vessels) including tugs, ferries, yachts, and other passenger-carrying vessels.

Features:

• Case histories to illustrate important points
• A complete course in BRM, suited for studying on your own as well as a complement to your classwork

Topics include: Introduction to BRM, Standard Operating Procedures, Passage Planning, Implementing the Passage Plan, Building a Passage Plan, Situational Awareness and Human Factors, including: Overreliance, Distraction, Stress, Fatigue, Complacency, and Transition; and Human Interactions, including Communications, Teams and Teamwork, Decision Making and Leadership, and Human Error

Author: Daniel Parrott
ISBN-10: 0071550070
ISBN-13: 9780071550079
Publisher: International Marine Publishing
Language: English
Published: 03/08/2011
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 10.90h x 8.70w x 0.60d