Organizing effective ship emergency squad subject to expenses on equipment and personnel training
The paper focuses on the problem of the ship operation when it is necessary to provide survivability for the ship to overcome the effects of the external environment during the voyage, failures of technical equipment, and errors of the human factor. To maintain the ship’s survivability, the guidance documents recommend providing the emergency squad with the resource that is necessary to maintain the ship’s survivability in emergency situations. It is said that in the struggle for survivability of the ship each member of the emergency squad in real time should evaluate not only the technical and organizational equipment of the squad, but also the degree of readiness of the human factor, especially practical skills. The approach to the model of fighting for survivability of a ship associates functioning of the emergency squad first of all with the reliability of preventive measures of technical means and the effectiveness of professional training of emergency squad personnel. Within the framework of the policy of constant and comprehensive training of the emergency squad personnel, the ship and company authorities need to reduce using technical and organizational resources to a minimum level. The costs of training shipboard specialists from the emergency squad should also be minimized, but to the point where the specialist, obtaining the sufficient skills to fight for survivability justify the costs incurred