Bridge Team Resource Management (BTRM)
This course adheres to and fulfills the requirements outlined in Regulation I/12, Section A-I/12, Code
B-I/12 of the STCW Convention as amended in 2010, and IMO Model Course 1.22 - Ship Handling and Bridge Team
Work, including all additional criteria specified in the STCW Convention applicable to the issuance of the
certificate.
Course Scope:
- • Passage Planning: Prepare and execute a detailed passage plan.
- • Resource Utilization: Achieve the best use of available resources for the safe navigation of the
ship.
- • Communication Skills: Apply effective communication skills within a Bridge Team.
- • Bridge Procedures: Appreciate the need and value of effective bridge procedures.
- • Navigational Emergencies: Respond effectively to navigational emergencies.
- • Ship Maneuvering: Effectively interpret a ship's maneuvering data.
Course Content:
- • Familiarization: Effective management of bridge team resources.
- • Passage Planning: Routes, waypoints, and detailed planning.
- • Bridge Procedures: Bridge team concept, functional bridge team operations, checklists, and logs.
- • Ship Handling: Use of maneuvering data, vessel hydrodynamics, engine controls, anchor handling, navigation in restricted visibility, and heavy weather.
- • Watchkeeping Conditions: Watch augmentation, changes, management of work, and rest periods.
- • Effective Communications: Confirmation and application of information among bridge team members.
- • Pilot Integration: Integrating the pilot into the bridge team.
- • Situational Awareness: Error-trapping, reassessment of priorities, resource allocation, and use of bridge systems and equipment.
- • Leadership: Maintaining bridge discipline, vigilance, positioning, and watchkeeping personnel.
- • Emergency Response: Handling failures of critical components in the integrated navigation system and managing the incapacity of bridge team members.
Course Duration: 5 Days
