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.