Study on Educational Methods to Enhance Non-technical Skills required for The Officers in charge of a Navigational Watch

In the airline industry,which handles the transportation as the maritime shipping industry does,the importance of non-technical skills as a required competency for airline pilots is recognized,and the education and training to enhance the ability such as situation awareness,decision making,and communication has begun.In the maritime shipping industry as well,Bridge Resource Management(referred to as BRM)competency was included in STCW from the Manila Amendments in 2010 for maintain a safe navigational watch,and it began to be required to educate and train the ability of situation awareness.It is necessary to enhance the ability of situation awareness of the officers in charge of a navigational watch(hereinafter,referred to as OICNW)to avoid collision with other ships. However,the current education and training for seafarers focused mainly on the requirements for obtaining a mariners license(STCW requirements such as basic knowledge for navigational skills,principles of navigational equipment,specific factors that affect ship maneuvering and so on.),which classified technical skills. In this study,in order to analyze the correlation between the situation awareness elements of OICNW's non-technical skills and the causes of ship collisions,authors created a situation awareness elements classification sheet on the navigational watch and analyzed which component is correlated to the collisions. In this paper,authors considered what kind of the education and training should be introduced to enhance the ability of situation awareness required for the OICNW in order to prevent the situation awareness category from leading to the collisions.