The Manila Conference of last year examined a number of revisions to SCTW, not least of which was a notable shift in emphasis, in placing Crew Resource Management and training in the ‘essential’ rather than its previous ‘desirable’ category.
The descriptor for this training is leadership and management and there is presently a huge amount of work underway by licensing bodies, the IMO and training organisations to establish the precise scope and range of this training and at what skill and professional levels it should be focussed.
Crew Resource Management Training has its origins in the aviation industry and has been a mandated part of an aviator’s training for some
thirty years. Accident investigations revealed that it was no longer a mechanical breakdown or structural failure that was to blame for a disaster or accident but rather a failure of the individual and that over 70% of these accidents were attributable to Human Factors.
