Poseidon Challenge

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Poseidon Challenge

• Tanker Officer Training Standards
• INTERTANKO Tokyo Tanker Event
• 15th May 2009

Capt. Howard Snaith Director Marine, Ports,
Terminal, Environment Chemical Section
INTERTANKO
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TOTS Links directly to Poseidon Challenge
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Why is TOTS needed? 

• A number of oil companies have in place their
  officer matrix requirement based on two
  elements time in rank and time with company.
  
• Growing expectations for an officers
  experience in rank and familiarity with his/her
  company operating and ISM systems, arising from
  the current rising trend in tanker accidents.
• As a result, tanker owners are increasingly
  finding themselves subject to time in rank and
  time with company requirements which are
  competing and contradictory, and which can be
  difficult to comply with.

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Why is TOTS needed? 

• Increasing Incidents
• Officer Training Requirements/Continuous
  Improvement (TMSA 2)
• Human Element Factors
• Shortage of Experienced Officers

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Tanker Incident Trends
Lloyds Casualty Data Increasing incidents
1/2001-1/2008.
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Continuous Improvement

• TMSA 2
• To be effective, a management system needs to
  be much more than just procedures. The Company
  Leadership/Management should define the companys
  values and aspirations and detail how the company
  intends to achieve the objectives of their stated
  policies. Management must also provide adequate
  resources to ensure that the vessels are properly
  managed, crewed, operated and maintained by
  well-trained, competent personnel.

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Human Element

• MSC 81/8/1
• Inter-Industry Working Group identified 35
  occurrences that involved fires and explosions in
  cargo areas of chemical and product tankers from
  a database of incidents over the past 25 years
  the IIWG identified.
• The IIG concluded in its study that
• the failure to follow procedures was the
  primary cause of the incidents in question.

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Human Element

• INTERTANKO looked at the aviation industry in
  assessing how we could address this problem.
• If you design out the Human Element
• other problems become designed in
• how do you get people to do what they are trained
  to do?

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Human Element

• Human Element aspects addressed in TOTS via Crew
  Resource Management (CRM)
• Situational awareness
• Planning Decision making
• Communications
• Teamwork
• Emotional climate
• Stress
• Managing Stress
• Commercial Organisational Pressures Morale
• Fatigue

Civil Aviation Authority Management Training
Guidance for flight crew CRM Instructors and
Examiners www.caa.co.uk
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Officer Shortage Predictions

• Drewry Shipping Consultants Report
• (assuming officer supply continues to increase at
  current levels)
• Predicts that, by 2012, the officer shortfall
  will have risen to 83,900.
• TOTS aims to ensure the provision of Trained
  Tanker Officers.

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The TOTS Objectives

• Ensure compliance with todays rules
  regulations.
• Ease compliance with Officer Matrix
  Requirements.
• Ensure that the team onboard will operate the
  tanker environmentally aware safe.

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Ship Specific Practical Simulator
Verification/Training

• 6 x TOTS Specific Model simulator courses

4C Product Tanker Simulator Training Model Course
4E Crude Oil Tanker Simulator Training Model
Course
4D Product Tanker Simulator Verification Model
Course
4F Crude Oil Tanker Simulator Verification Model
Course
4A Chemical Simulator Training Model Course
4B Chemical Simulator Verification Model Course
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TOTS - Raising the Bar
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E-TOTS Licensing

• In response to many of Seagulls customers and
  INTERTANKO members requesting an easier method of
  adopting (TOTS)
• Seagull and INTERTANKO have negotiated a non
  exclusive agreement to TOTS in E-Format
• In the Seagull Training Administrator
• E-TOTS provides a simple tool to administer to
  monitor remotely and allow more companies to
  adopt the initiative with minimal extra workload.
  
• E-TOTS Launched Today

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• Poseidon Challenge striving towards zero
  fatalities, zero pollution, zero detentions