> 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. > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ 1. Moderator tidak bertanggung jawab atas kebenaran isi dan/atau identitas asli pengirim berita. 2. ATTACHMENT akan dibanned, krmkan ke pelaut-owner atau upload ke FILE. Yahoo! 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