Elements and Performance Criteria
- Oversee development of passage plan
- Requirements of passage are established
- Reasons for planned route are supported by facts and statistical data obtained from relevant sources and publications
- Positions, courses, distances and time calculations are checked for correctness within accepted accuracy standards for navigational equipment
- Potential navigational hazards are accurately identified
- Develop and implement watchkeeping arrangements and procedures
- Watchkeeping arrangements and procedures are developed according to bridge resource management principles, and organisational and regulatory requirements
- Bridge resource management principles are appropriately applied in establishing watchkeeping arrangements and procedures and in developing an effective bridge working system
- Communications strategies are developed to link watchkeeping procedures with all aspects of vessel operations
- Fatigue management strategies are developed according to organisational and regulatory requirements
- Corrective action procedures are developed and monitored
- Procedures for reporting, recording and responding to emergencies and non-compliance are established
- Monitor bridge team in implementing passage plan
- Work schedule for bridge team is detailed according to bridge resource management principles
- Risk control measures are evaluated against passage plan
- Navigation requirements are communicated to bridge team
- Individuals are fully briefed and responsibilities are coordinated
- Navigation tasks are carried out according to passage plan
- Ongoing checks and position determination are conducted according to organisational procedures
- Non-routine problems related to navigation of vessel are solved
- Navigational data is signed off according to organisational procedures
- Interpret and evaluate information from electronic navigational system
- Data from radar plotting sheet is interpreted and analysed to anticipate potential collisions
- Data produced by other electronic navigational aids is interpreted and used to assist navigational command decisions, taking into account known limitations and errors associated with each type of aid
- Information obtained through a single vessel or multiple vessel analysis of radar plots or other electronic navigational data is used to make command decisions on action needed to avoid collisions
- Radar data is used to obtain position fix for vessel using electronic bearing lines and variable range markers
- Navigate in complex situations
- Measurements and observations of sea and weather conditions are used to determine vessel speed and direction in complex situations
- Information from bridge equipment is interpreted to identify navigational hazards and to fix vessel position
- Nautical publications on tides and currents are used to calculate tidal conditions
- Alterations to vessel course or speed are made to meet prevailing circumstances and changing conditions
- Navigational manoeuvres are conducted within safe operational limits of vessel
- Details of passage are recorded in vessel log according to regulations
- Variations to planned route are documented prior to archiving, on completion of voyage
- Manage emergencies
- Bridge team is taken charge of when called to bridge in response to an emergency
- Safety management system (SMS) procedures are implemented when taking over bridge watch from officer of the watch
- Appropriate action is taken to initiate search and rescue procedures on receipt of distress signal
- Advice is provided to watchkeeper regarding response to emergency situations
- Maintain navigational equipment
- Navigational charts, nautical publications and related documentation are stored and maintained according to organisational procedures
- Inventory of navigational charts, nautical publications and related documentation is established and kept according to organisational procedures
- Navigational charts, nautical publications and related documentation are ordered and updated from relevant sources to ensure available data needed for voyage planning is current
- Performance checks and tests of navigation position fixing instruments and systems are carried out according to organisational procedures and manufacturer instructions
- Prepare reports and documentation relevant to passage