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Be Safe - Be Prepared<br />
Safety Refresher Course at the <strong>Odfjell</strong> Academy<br />
By Mika Appel, <strong>Odfjell</strong> Academy/Wartsila Land & Sea Academy<br />
Safety is a state of being prepared,<br />
aware and forward thinking, to enable<br />
us to manage and reduce the risk of<br />
actions that may lead to negative incidents<br />
such as injuries or emergencies.<br />
To further enhance the safety mindset<br />
and focus on board <strong>Odfjell</strong> ships,<br />
the <strong>Odfjell</strong> Academy in collaboration<br />
with Wartsila Land & Sea Academy has<br />
developed a safety refresher course.<br />
Both <strong>Odfjell</strong> and Wartsila have a wealth<br />
of experience and knowledge in Safety<br />
Management and best working practices.<br />
The basis for developing the<br />
safety refresher course was a draft<br />
course outline, previously developed by<br />
Capt. Kjell Johansen (<strong>Odfjell</strong> Academy)<br />
and Jari Ullakonoja (Wartsila). However,<br />
it was quite a challenge to merge<br />
ideas from both parties and come up<br />
with a programme that will suit and<br />
meet the operations of <strong>Odfjell</strong>. Keeping<br />
this in mind, we teamed up with Capt.<br />
Fidel Perez, C/M Virgilio Angeles, C/E<br />
Leo Gegajo and Second Mate Aurelio<br />
Sedutan to develop the course scope<br />
through brainstorming sessions, with<br />
<strong>Odfjell</strong>’s safety standards and procedures<br />
and STCW (Standards of Training,<br />
Certification & Watchkeeping) requirements<br />
in mind.<br />
The course focuses on developing strategies<br />
and coordinated action plans, and<br />
to achieve an attention during normal<br />
operations, which enable the crew to<br />
react in a correct manner if an emergency<br />
should occur. We have taken a<br />
practical approach, developing case<br />
studies that match various scenarios<br />
on board <strong>Odfjell</strong>’s vessels. The training<br />
is a four-day programme, in which<br />
participants from management, operation<br />
and support level attend at different<br />
periods.<br />
The first day of the course is for management<br />
level officers. The programme<br />
starts by letting the participants<br />
share their experiences from the daily<br />
activities and the regular safety and<br />
emergency training on board. We ask<br />
the participants to state the facts of<br />
relevant situations, how they manage,<br />
react and ensure control of various<br />
emergencies. The key to ensure control<br />
is to have presence of mind, will to<br />
survive and the proper safety skills to<br />
react correctly. We then challenge them<br />
to analyze the situation on what could<br />
be the possible incident cause and the<br />
lessons learned from their experience.<br />
During the first aid instructions<br />
14 ODFJELL Quarterly September 2006
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