Inadequate knowledge of ship procedures:
Not knowing due to inadequate experience and/or training the shipboard and company policies requiring adequate knowledge of your own ship's operation. Examples include emergency procedures, maintenance procedures, administrative procedures, and safety system procedures.
Unaware of role/task responsibility:
Inadequate knowledge of the specific job required of an individual. Examples include a lack of understanding of command responsibilities, communications responsibilities, safety responsibilities, maintenance responsibilities and emergency responsibilities.
Inadequate language skills:
A lack of the basic language skills necessary to communicate and perform duties as required. This includes total or partial inability to speak, read or comprehend the primary language and/or other required language sufficiently to understand shipboard commands, instructions, procedures, labels, warnings and regulations.
Management:
Failure to maintain discipline:
Failing to ensure that personnel submit to authority, regulations and procedures. Examples include: tolerating unqualified or inept personnel, not enforcing regulations and procedures, tolerating insubordination.
Failure of command:
Mistakes in giving commands. Examples of faulty command include: proper command not given, proper command not given at the appropriate time or out of sequence with other commands, incorrect commands, conflicting commands.
Inadequate supervision:
Inadequate oversight of activities of personnel under an individual's supervision. Examples of faulty supervision include: not checking to see that a job was performed in a timely and correct manner, not providing proper resources to deal with problems brought to the attention of supervising individual, unequal treatment of personnel.
Inadequate co-ordination or communication:
Failure to communicate and co-ordinate to address issues, problems and tasks both aboard ship and ashore. Examples include: poor communication between bridge officers, poor communication with pilots, poor communication with home office, poor deck-to-engine-room co-ordination.
Inadequate management of physical resources:
Poor management of physical resources, namely the tools, equipment, supplies, facilities, food, water, fuel, etc., needed to perform tasks. Examples of faulty management of physical resources include: absence of physical resources, shortage of physical resources, inappropriate physical resources, physical resources stored improperly, physical resources difficult to obtain when needed.
Inadequate manning:
Failing to ensure that all required tasks aboard ship can be properly, performed and that there are adequate personnel of the proper skill level, physical and mental ability, experience, certification, and inclination to properly perform those tasks.
Inadequate manpower available:
Not assigning, or not ensuring the availability of, adequate personnel with appropriate skill levels to a ship, or to a specific task aboard the ship, to ensure safe and efficient operation.
