Port Skills and Safety

This set of National Occupational Standards is one of a suite of three developed to underpin the Port Marine Safety Code, published by the Department for Transport in 2000.

Unit Titles:

1. Planning an act of pilotage
2. Embarking and disembarking
3. Assessing standards on the piloted vessel
4. Co-operating with the bridge team and functioning within it
5. Liaising and communicating within the port
6. Transiting the pilotage district
7. Manoeuvring vessels in harbours and their approaches
8. Reacting and responding to problems and emergency situations
9. Managing personal and professional conduct and development