Bridge Resource Management for Small Ships [int440]

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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.  Featuring case  histories to illustrate important points, this book presents a complete course in bridge resource management, suitable 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

Table of Contents:

Prologue: The Herald of Free Enterprise
Introduction: Why Bridge Resource Management?

Part I. Planning and Procedures
Chapter One. Standard Operating Procedures
Chapter Two. Passage Planning: Appraisal and Planning
Chapter Three. Implementing the Passage Plan: Execution, Conferring, and Monitoring
Chapter Four. Building a Passage Plan: Tactics and Tools

Part II. Situational Awareness and Human Factors
Chapter Five. Overreliance
Chapter Six. Distraction
Chapter Seven. Stress
Chapter Eight. Fatigue
Chapter Nine. Complacency
Chapter Ten. Transition

Part III. Human Interaction
Chapter Eleven. Communication
Chapter Twelve. Teams and TeamworkChapter
Thirteen. Decision-Making and Leadership
Chapter Fourteen. Human Error

Appendix: Sample Master/Pilot Information Exchange (MPX)
Sources
Acknowledgments
Index