> To: marinongpi...@yahoogroups.com
> From: leojsanti...@yahoo.com
> Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2011 00:32:38 +0000
> Subject: [marinongpinoy] EMSA DISCUSSION PAPER
>
> THE EMSA REPORT
> The European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) has three objectives: quality
> shipping, safer ships and cleaner oceans. Part of their mandate for safer
> ships is the inspection of how seafarers are trained. Pursuant to this
> mandate, EMSA conducted its first inspection of the Philippines' compliance
> with the procedures for education, training, and certification of seafarers
> in accordance with the STCW Convention in 2006 and submitted its findings to
> the Philippine government on deficiencies in our systems. In 2009 they
> conducted their second inspection to see our level of compliance on the 2006
> findings. They submitted their second report on deficiencies in April, 2010.
> The deadline for compliance with the findings in the second report is August
> 31, 2011. A summary of deficiencies identified in the April, 2010 report
> includes:
> 1. matters relating to the functioning of the maritime administration,
> 2. insufficient quality procedures,
> 3. insufficient monitoring of schools,
> 4. inaccurate approval and review of courses,
> 5. the level and quality of training,
> 6. the poor quality of inspection of the METIs, and
> 7. insufficient qualifications of instructors and assessors.
> The assessment was based on a comparison between the initial deficiencies
> identified in 2006 and findings upon second inspection in 2009.
> The assessment results in Annex 1 of the report involve the functioning of
> the maritime administration. The findings cover the following four areas and
> sub-areas:
> 1. Maritime administration
> a. Quality standard systems
> b. Course review and approval
> c. Onboard training
> 2. Certification requirements
> 3. Maritime education and training institutions
> a. Quality standard systems
> b. Qualification of instructors and assessors
> c. Training equipment and facilities
> d. Use of simulators
> 4. Programs and courses
> Initial inspection and second inspection on specific maritime institutions
> were conducted on the following schools and the findings are contained in
> Annex 1:
> 1. Philippine Maritime Institute
> 2. University of Cebu
> 3. University of the Visayas
> Annex 2 of the report contains deficiencies which were not addressed by
> specific maritime institutions that were subject to inspection as of May 10,
> 2009. Inspection was conducted in three areas:
> 1. Quality standard systems
> 2. Training equipment and facilities
> 3. Use of simulators
> The second inspection was conducted on the following schools as listed in
> Annex 2:
> 1. Mariners' Polytechnic Colleges Foundation
> 2. St. Therese MTC College
> 3. Capitol University
> 4. Visayan Maritime Academy
> 5. Southern de Oro Philippine College
> 6. West Negros College
> Inspection was conducted and measured against specific regulations of the
> STCW requirements. The findings on maritime administration, certification
> requirements, and programs and courses include:
> 1. failure to carry out required audits,
> 2. procedural lapses in implementing regulatory requirements for the regular
> review of courses and introducing amendments,
> 3. failure to implement on board training programs and document on board
> training in an on board training record book,
> 4. procedural lapses in the validation of the training record book,
> 5. inconsistency in the implementation of the management level courses with
> the requirements of the STCW Convention,
> 6. failure to rectify items omitted in the syllabi for the management level
> courses compared with the requirements of the STCW Convention,
> Specific findings with respect to the schools include:
> 1. failure to set targets for quality objectives in order to measure
> achievement of such objectives
> 2. failure to identify competency requirements for lecturers and instructors
> posts
> 3. failure to meet requirements for training equipment as provided in the
> STCW and other relevant codes
> 4. incomplete description of scenarios for simulator courses to allow for the
> proper conduct of exercises and the achievement of training objectives
> 5.absence of manuals for simulator exercises and lack of training objectives
> for the simulator training
> 6. lack of familiarity of trainers with the simulator exercises
> 7. failure to record, test and validate simulator exercises to check whether
> learning objectives and performance criteria are met
> 8. incomplete, missing, insufficient or non-functioning training and
> simulator equipment
> 9. failure to properly implement the quality standards systems, establish an
> audit plan, perform the required audits, and address and correct deficiencies
> identified
> 10. failure to implement identified five-year development plan
> Assessment and report of compliance is now being prepared by the Maritime
> Training Council.
> The findings are of two kinds:
> 1. procedural in nature with respect to the requirement of undertaking
> regular audits and implementing the quality standard systems
> 2. substantive in nature with respect to compliance with STCW requirements.
> Acceptance of corrective measures taken by the EMSA is critical to the
> continued recognition of the STCW certificates of Filipino seafarers. There
> is a danger of a snowball effect if the EU succeeds in its process to
> withdraw recognition of the STCW certificates issued by the Philippines
> because other States may take the same action. There is also a problem with
> non-EU flagged ships which call at EU ports because port State action may be
> taken against these ships if they have Filipino crew on board.
> At the moment, the manning agencies can only wait for what the MTC will do
> next because action to comply is in their hands.
>
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