Techniques for Ship Handling and Bridge Team Management

Hiroaki Kobayashi has trained 1500 mariners in ship handling over twenty years and he has systematized the methods of safe navigation into nine elemental techniques. Taking a rigorous and scientific look at good practice and attitudes, good seamanship can be viewed as a series of concrete technical functions, which can be in terms of competencies.By giving proper attention to human factors the conditions for maintaining system safety can be defined, and the interaction of human competencies and environmental conditions and their effects on system safety can be recognised. System safety in turn depends on good bridge team management, with particular emphasis on communication, cooperation and leadership – communication for the exchange of information, cooperation to smooth team activities, and leadership to ensure that each member of the team performs successfully.

PART ITechniques for Ship HandlingPreface1 Factors in Achieving Safe Navigation2 Analysis of Techniques for Ship Handling3 Inadequate Knowledge and Competency Often Observedin Inexperienced Seafarers4 Significance and Use of Elemental Technique DevelopmentPostscriptPART IIBridge Team ManagementPreface5 Techniques Necessary for Safe Navigation6 Factors in Achieving Safe Navigation7 Background of Bridge Team Management8 Bridge Team ManagementPostscriptPART IIIBridge Team Management/Bridge ResourceManagement TrainingPreface9 Training System10 Bridge Team Management Training Structure11 Bridge Team Management Training Examples

Dr. Hiroaki Kobayashi is Professor Emeritus at the Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, and is past president of a number of academic institutes in Japan and several international maritime institutes. He has developed a number of standard training courses on bridge team management and instructor training courses on maritime education which have been authorized by Class NK, a member of the International Association of Classification Societies.