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Dynamic Positioning Assurance

Continuous Professional Development

Structured CPD programme for key DP personnel under IMCA M 117
Normative anchor
IMCA M 117 Rev 3.3 · NORMAM 101 / DPC Ar 1.24.3
Answers to
Company DP Authority · HR · Operations Director
Charging unit
Per crew member / month, annual package
Primary output
Training matrix, session records and certificates

A continuous programme rather than a course. Ten knowledge modules delivered as live, two-way instruction with assessment throughout — and contextualised to the vessel from its own single line diagrams, FMEA and ASOG, because generic training answers a generic audit and the audit is not generic.

In scope

  • Ten knowledge modules: Guidance & Regulation, Knowledge Enhancement, Functional Requirements, DP Operations, Redundancy Concepts, Testing & Trials, Position Reference Systems, Power Systems, Thruster Units and Emergency Scenarios.
  • Differentiated depth for deck and engine streams — the same module, taught to the level each stream is held to.
  • Live, two-way instruction with assessment throughout. Time logged against a module is not evidence of competence and we do not report it as such.
  • Vessel-specific contextualisation of the systems, trials and CAM/ASOG modules, drawn from the vessel's single line diagrams, FMEA and operational state documents.
  • CAM/ASOG familiarisation with a line-by-line walkthrough of the ASOG table and the CAM and TAM.
  • Delta training on each CAM/ASOG revision, before the revision takes effect.
  • Instructors qualified under NORMAM 101 / DPC Ar 1.24.3 and dedicated to instruction — not crew teaching on their leave rotation.

Not in scope

  • Forming the classes and reconciling them against the crew change rota. That stays with the operator, and it is the single most common reason a programme falls behind.
  • Supplying the simulator. We deliver on the client's simulator or a partner's; we do not hold one and we will not pretend to.
  • Certification by the Nautical Institute. That requires an accreditation we do not yet hold.
  • Vessel-specific contextualisation where the technical documentation is not provided. The programme then runs on generic IMCA guidance — and we say so before it starts, not in the report afterwards.

Declared so the conversation happens before the campaign, not in the middle of it.

Deliverables

What you receive

  1. Annual training matrix by rank, with the modules each rank carries.
  2. Session records evidencing live instruction and assessment throughout.
  3. Certificates, issued within three working days of each session.
  4. Individual gap report feeding the next cycle.
  5. Detailed Service Report for the DP Authority.
Scoping

What drives the effort

These move the size of the campaign. None of them moves the standard it is measured against.

These drive effort, not price. Pricing is quoted after the specification call, together with the documents we will need from you.

The four documentary items marked desirable are what separate a contextualised programme from a generic one. They are not blockers — the programme runs without them — but it then answers to IMCA guidance in the abstract rather than to your vessel, and a charterer's audit can tell the difference.

Related scopes

What usually goes with it

DP Competence Assessment

Where each key DP person stands against the standard their rank requires.

CAM / TAM / ASOG

Which configuration the vessel operates in, and when it must stop.

DP Assurance

Whether the organisation behind the vessel can hold the standard.

Next step

Continuous Professional Development — let's scope it against your vessel.

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