A month after the first MRM session for Stena RoRo, ALL Academy had the pleasure of repeating the task on May 27th. The conference took place at Arken conference centre in Gothenburg. The event was very similar to last time with about 50 participants of which half the group from office and half from sea. A good mix most suitable for the MRM topic.
About 50 participants attended Stena RoRo’s officer conference in Gothenburg in May where MRM was an important part of the agenda.
First, many thanks to Costamare Maritime Training Services S.A. who kindly hosted the MRM Facilitator training event in Athens on 21-22 May 2014. Excellent arrangements, facilities and catering offered us a good platform for a successful event. Hospitality the Greek way!
Similar to the previous MRM Facilitator training events held earlier this year, the event in Athens became fully booked.
MRM Facilitators gathered in the garden of Costamare Maritime Training Services S.A. in Athens, Greece.
The following people and companies attended:
We were pleased to get the opportunity, for the third time, to talk about Maritime Resource Management at an officer conference hosted by tanker owner Laurin Maritime AB. Last time was in Manila at the end of March 2014. This time, on 19 May 2014, the conference took place at Varberg Stadshotell in Varberg, Sweden. Founders and owners, the Laurin family, took an active part in the conference.
Martin Hernqvist of ALL Academy at Laurin Maritime’s officer conference in Varberg on 19 May 2014.
Family Laurin together with conference participants in the stairway of Varbergs Stadshotell. (Hans Laurin, front row, second from left, and wife Agneta, front row, middle.)
The 17th European Manning and Training conference was held in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 13-14 May 2014. Organised by Informa Maritime Events and excellently chaired by Kuba Szymanski, Secretary General of InterManager. The conference gathered some 150 participants from near and far.
Martin Hernqvist was one of the speakers and the title of his speech was “Developing effective safety cultures on board – moving outside the box to achieve results.” In his speech he talked about the three components of competency – ‘knowledge’, ‘skills’ and ‘attitude’. He mentioned that the maritime industry is too much ‘certificate focused’ and said that “certificates mean little, results matter”. He concluded that we have to move outside the box (meaning the STCW Code and Convention) and involve the ship owner and ship manager to achieve results. Effective safety cultures cannot be established if those are not on board.
Conference delegates at the 17th European Manning and Training conference held in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 13-14 May 2014.
One of the workshops, or ‘Employment Clinics’, held at the end of the conference. The workshop leader for this one was Mikkel Hansen, Head of Marine HR at Ultragas.
The conference is over. Informa Maritime Events’ organisers, Joseph Cleary and Kathryn Barnard, may finally relax and conclude it was a big success.
The mutual hull insurer and P&I Club, The Swedish Club, invited reinsurers to learn about Maritime Resource Management and its potential in reducing accidents at sea. The event took place on 13 May 2014 on the beautiful island of Marstrand on the Swedish West Coast.
The island of Marstrand on the Swedish West Coast. The location of The Swedish Club’s “Reinsurance Day 2014”.
“MRM helps prevent accidents.” This message was positively received by the reinsurers gathered at the Grand Hotel Marstrand.
Help us decide the most suitable dates and locations for the events during the second half of 2014. As usual, we will arrange the events when and where the demand is the greatest. As far as possible we will make sure that long distance travelling for the participants will not be required.
Please leave your suggestions using the form found here. Thanks for your help!
Experience, Global Reach and Passion. These are words that describe ALL Academy.
We have been involved in resource management training in the maritime industry since 1993. For more than 20 years, resource management training has been our full time job and commitment. Over the years some 60,000 people have been trained in MRM. We have also trained many hundreds of MRM Facilitators and we have taken part in conferences and workshops meeting people from all over the world. Well aware of that learning is a lifelong process, no one will ever reach 100% on the learning or experience scale. However, if someone would claim they have reached 90% on this scale, we could easily say 95%. We would be pleased to share our knowledge and experiences with you.
The MRM network is the maritime industry’s largest training network within the human factors area. At the moment we have clients in about 35 countries. There are more countries in the world than this figure but since these 35 include the far most important seafaring countries, we feel that 90% provides a pretty accurate picture. If anyone feels outside – welcome onboard!
This is the most important characteristic of ALL Academy. Without passion, one will not succeed. With a strong belief, a lot of hard work and an enormous amount of passion we built up an industry awareness about the need for resource management and human factors training during the 1990s and 2000s. We have been passionate about these issues ever since we started in 1993 but the more we learn, the more passionate we become. No doubt 100% on this scale. Passion is contagious. If you are passionate too, click the heart symbol on the top of this page to “love this”!
