Safety Critical courses back on track

Stream Marine Training (SMT) reopened for business on 1 June, offering a blended digital and classroom-based range of STCW safety critical courses.

“Our team has worked extremely hard to make sure that we could re-open in a safe manner while still offering our clients the main safety critical courses which are fundamental for seafarers to learn,” said Martin White, CEO of Stream Marine Training.

Having run dozens of the UK Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) approved STCW webinars over the past month, the team at SMT has put together a schedule that allows their customers to do the theoretical elements of the Basic Safety Week and Refresher cycles using a live interactive digital platform.

For the practical elements, new stringent policies that comply with the HSE and Government guidelines have been put in place on site to ensure the safety and wellbeing of SMT’s customers and staff.

Webinar-led PSSR and Security Awareness will complement the practical hands-on courses such as EFA, PST in SMT’s pool and fire-fighting training, which takes place at SMT’s open-air fire grounds at Glasgow International Airport.

This approach applies to the Refresher cycle too, which will now begin with an advanced fire-fighting update webinar course before Firefighting, PSCRB, PST and FRB updating courses.

All the STCW courses running over webinars are approved by both UK MCA and Bahamas Maritime Authority (BMA).

By Rebecca Jeffrey