Liverpool pilots accredited to run Maritime Resource Management (MRM) courses

March 15th, 2009 by JCB
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In September 2008 Liverpool Pilots, through The Swedish Club, put two Pilots through the Maritime Resource Management training for Work Shop Leaders. We now have two Workshop Leaders approved by The Swedish Club to deliver MRM courses and are the first organisation in the UK to be listed as a Training Providers on the Swedish Club website, www.theswedishclub.com/mrm. 

Along with many other Pilotage Services, following recommendations from the MAIB and our own continual professional development programme, we wanted Pilots to attend Bridge Resource Management (BRM) / MRM courses. We looked at the usual training establishments but found that the BRM courses they offered failed to live up to expectations since they weren’t directed at pilots.

We opted for MRM because we believe that a Pilot’s duty is not limited to the confines of a ships’ bridge. The core of the course covers all areas specifically tailored to the Pilot’s perspective since pilots teaching pilots is a tradition that we promote and want to continue. To date our courses have received favourable feedback and we are in the process of gaining MCA accreditation for the course. Each course runs for two days and we currently have spaces on some planned courses but if 8 or more spaces are required then special courses can be arranged to suit; either here or we can come to you.

 

For further information please contact our Administrator:

Julie Oram on 0151 647 3352 or e-mail admin@liverpoolpilots.com

 

Matt Easton and Nev Dring

Workshop Leaders

Liverpool Pilots 

 

So, what is Maritime Resource Management MRM?

We are all relatively familiar with the term BRM and are aware that many Maritime colleges run BRM courses but if we are honest, unless we have actually attended such a course, many of us haven’t really much of a clue as to what it is and where it originated.

BRM was originally developed from the airline industry’s Crew Resource Management (CRM). Human behaviour and psychological and physiological factors are very much the same in both aviation and shipping and in 1993 the marine insurer the Swedish Club and six other major Maritime organisations converted the CRM training programme to BRM.

However, since not all accidents originate from the Bridge, the course as been expanded to include others such as engineers and shore-based personnel and is now referred to as Maritime Resource Management (MRM) 

 

The main aim of BRM/MRM is to change attitudes with the objective of establishing a safer and more efficient teamwork onboard ship and to address issues related to leadership, management styles, culture, communication, automation, stress fatigue, etc. 

JCB