This course helps seafarers understand how everyday actions, decisions, and working conditions influence safety onboard. It introduces practical Human Performance concepts such as why errors happen, how our environment shapes behavior, and how to learn instead of blame.
By exploring real shipboard situations, the course equips crew members to speak up, support each other, and contribute to a stronger safety culture aimed at preventing incidents and protecting everyone onboard.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this course, seafarers will be able to:
Explain the key Human Performance principles and how they support safer operations at sea.
Recognize how context and conditions influence behavior and contribute to incidents.
Demonstrate a learner mindset, using mistakes and near misses as opportunities to learn rather than blame.
Understand how leaders’ responses affect team behaviour and trust, especially after unexpected events.
Apply causal reasoning to better understand why things happen and identify safer ways of working.
Speak up and encourage others to speak up, helping make the ship a safer place for everyone.
Support and engage middle management and shipboard leaders in strengthening day‑to‑day safety culture.
