Poor operations:
A situation in which individuals or groups of individuals degrade the shipboard environment making the performance of some required tasks more difficult. Examples include ship manoeuvres (e. g. increased speed, change in course, erratic manoeuvres) impact on ship dynamics, causing balance and restraint difficulties when personnel performing one task interfere with those performing another; or where storage of cargo impedes access or transit.
Poor maintenance:
Failure to keep any part of the ship or its equipment in the condition in which it was designed to function within a designated lifetime or operational period, thus degrading the shipboard environment and making the performance of some required tasks more difficult. Examples of poor maintenance impacting on required tasks: inadequate replacement parts and tools to perform propel maintenance, resulting from a lack of commitment from management.
Safety administration:
Inadequate technical knowledge:
Not having, due to inadequate experience and/or training, the general knowledge which is required for the individual's job on board. Examples include navigation, seamanship, propulsion systems, cargo handling, communications, and weather.
Inadequate situational communication/awareness:
Not knowing, due to inadequate experience, lack of communication, co-ordination and/or training, the current status of the ship, its systems, or its environment. Examples include lack of knowledge of location, heading or speed and lack of knowledge of status of ongoing maintenance on board.
Lack of communication or co-ordination:
Not making use of all available information sources to determine current status. This may be the result of a lack of initiative on the part of the individual or a lack of initiative and/or co-operation on the part of others. Examples of poor communication/co-ordination include: poor communication between bridge officers, poor communication with pilots, and poor deck-to-engine-room co-ordination.
Inadequate knowledge of ship operations:
Lack of knowledge resulting from inadequate experience, ignorance of regulations, inadequate knowledge of procedures, inadequate training, and/or unawareness of role/task/responsibility. Examples of areas where an individual, might lack knowledge: navigation, seamanship, propulsion systems, cargo handling, communications, and weather.
Inadequate knowledge regulations/standards:
Lack of knowledge or understanding of required regulations due to inadequate experience and/or training. Examples of possible regulations; company policies and standards, national and international regulations, maritime regulations of other port States, local jurisdiction regulations, shipboard regulations, cautionary notices, chart notations, or labelling.
