Personal Safety and Social Responsibilities

This classroom-based day of training covers a range of topics designed to prepare you for the realities of working onboard a professional vessel.

By the end of the course, you will understand how vessels operate as working environments and what is expected of you as part of a crew.

Topics covered include:

• Complying with emergency procedures onboard a vessel
• Safe working practices and accident prevention
• Shipboard organisational structure and chain of command
• Understanding orders and communication onboard
• Contributing to effective working relationships within a crew
• Employment conditions and your responsibilities as a seafarer
• Preventing pollution of the marine environment
• Awareness of fatigue and personal wellbeing
• Respectful behaviour onboard, including awareness of harassment and unacceptable conduct

The final topic reflects updated MCA guidance around professional conduct at sea. Working onboard a vessel means living and working in close proximity with your crewmates, often for extended periods. The PSSR course introduces the responsibilities all seafarers share in maintaining a safe, professional, and respectful working environment onboard.

• MCA approved PSSR certificate
• Course notes

There are no formal pre-course requirements but you must be 18 to enrol on this course.

For successful completion, 100% attendance is required, and students are expected to actively participate in all elements of the course.

Flying Fish is an MCA-approved training centre based in Cowes, delivering internationally recognised STCW courses for commercial crew.

If you are planning a career as a Deckhand or Stewardess on a Superyacht, this is one of the key qualifications you will need before you can begin applying for work.