The Nautical Institute launches shipping vodcasts
David Patraiko, Director of Projects, The Nautical Institute and David Moorehouse, Chairman of The Lloyd's Register Educational Trust launch the Vodcasts project at Posidonia 2010 in Athens.
The Nautical Institute has launched new ‘vodcasts’ (video podcasts/shareable video clips) for students and lecturers to use to share knowledge of some of the key human element issues that affect shipping ,including fatigue, communication, health and safety.
The new initiative is aimed at raising awareness of human element issues to an estimated 500,000 international students involved in every sector of the shipping industry, from cadets to those in the commercial or regulatory sectors. It is sponsored by The Lloyd’s Register Educational Trust (The LRET) and was launched at the recent Posidonia exhibition in Greece.
Featuring real shipboard environments that demonstrate best practice and evaluate disasters, each of the 21 core subjects featured in the Alert! Human Element Bulletins will be addressed in a three minute, high quality educational vodcast.
The vodcasts are available free on the Alert! website: www.he-alert.org for users to view online, download to a computer or portable device such as a mobile phone or iPod.
It has hoped this will enhance effective viewing and sharing by students around the world. Lecturers from all sectors of the shipping industry will also benefit from importing the vodcasts into their PowerPoint presentations for improved teaching impact.
The Institute’s director of projects, David Patraiko, stressed the importance of educating a whole generation of maritime professionals as to the importance of the human element to improve not only safety, but also commercial effectiveness. Only when ships, systems, and regulations are designed taking into account the human element will they perform as intended. ‘ It is of vital importance that the future decision makers of our industry, most of whom may never have the opportunity to visit or even sail on a ship, understand these implications and how to address them’,he said.
David Moorhouse, chairman of The LRET, said that The LRET was ‘very keen’ to disseminate further the key messages that have been covered in Alert! We also want to encourage the very best use of modern technology to connect with today’s students in order to promote the critical role they will play in the future of the shipping industry.’.
Two vodcasts are currently available, those corresponding to issues one and two of the Alert! Human Element Bulletins covering an introduction to the series and an explanation of Human Factors. It is anticipated that a further five will be available within a month, and that all 21 subjects will be covered within the next two years.
Images for this article - click to enlarge
Unless otherwise stated, all images copyright © Mercator Media 2012. This does not exclude the owner's assertion of copyright over the material.
