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Recipient Name
Port of Tauranga
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Ensure that all company pilots attend a bridge resource management course and adopt the principles as part of company operational policy and procedure.
Reply Text
As yet I have not seen the final report so without that document it is difficult for me to ascertain what relevance, if any, your final safety recommendation has. It is still our view, based on the preliminary report, that the safety recommendation has no relevance at all to the incident. No amount of bridge resource management instruction to our staff would have made any difference with respect to the Caribic grounding.
We have been in discussion with MSA for some time over the issue of bridge resource management courses and have expressed to them our reluctance to send our staff (at considerable cost) to what was then the only course available, being provided in Australia. We have also been in discussion with the Auckland Nautical School as to whether they could provide a less expensive alternative to the current monopoly provider and they have assured us that they intend to start a course in the year 2001. If that is the case we will consider sending our staff on such a course. I am unable to tell you when we will have finished implementing this recommendation because as yet we have not had confirmation of course dates in Auckland.
We have been in discussion with MSA for some time over the issue of bridge resource management courses and have expressed to them our reluctance to send our staff (at considerable cost) to what was then the only course available, being provided in Australia. We have also been in discussion with the Auckland Nautical School as to whether they could provide a less expensive alternative to the current monopoly provider and they have assured us that they intend to start a course in the year 2001. If that is the case we will consider sending our staff on such a course. I am unable to tell you when we will have finished implementing this recommendation because as yet we have not had confirmation of course dates in Auckland.
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