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NAVIGATION SKILLS ASSESSMENT PROGRAM (NSAP)®



THE NSAP® IS OFFERED WORLDWIDE

As a result of global demand for an objective tool in risk mitigation, MITAGS
has implemented the NSAP® at various International Training Centers (ITC)
throughout the world.

THE NSAP® IS A RISK-BASED MEASUREMENT AND REPORTING TOOL DEVELOPED BY MITAGS. IT
OBJECTIVELY ASSESSES MARINERS’ COMPETENCY, FOCUSING SPECIFICALLY ON THE CORE
SKILLS REQUIRED OF LICENSED DECK OFFICERS AS DEFINED BY INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS
(STCW) AND INDUSTRY BEST PRACTICES.

NSAP® IS DESIGNED TO REDUCE CATASTROPHIC MARITIME INCIDENTS BY EVALUATING
MARINERS’ PROFICIENCY, KNOWLEDGE AND USE OF TECHNOLOGY. AT THE CONCLUSION OF THE
NSAP® SESSION EMPLOYERS RECEIVE A COMPREHENSIVE REPORT WHICH IDENTIFIES THE
PARTICIPANT’S SPECIFIC STRENGTHS AND AREAS REQUIRING IMPROVEMENT. MANY COMPANIES
USE THIS REPORT TO GUIDE FUTURE ALLOCATION OF TRAINING RESOURCES TO IMPROVE
SPECIFIC SKILLS OR MITIGATE SPECIFIC RISKS.

WHAT IS THE NSAP®?

The Navigation Skills Assessment Program (NSAP)® is a risk-based measurement
tool that evaluates a mariner’s performance against a scenario delivered in a
maritime simulator. The assessment focuses on the core skills required of
licensed deck officers as defined by international standards and industry best
practices.

Each NSAP® session uses realistic scenario-based exercises geared toward ship
operations in congested waters, overlaid by several critical tasks or
emergencies. Subject Matter Expert Assessors are present throughout to evaluate
the assessment based on pre-established criteria. At the conclusion of the
session, the Assessor debriefs the participant, providing an opportunity to
discuss individual performance and possible areas for improvement to
enhance navigational skills.

NSAP® STANDARDS

The NSAP® assessment criteria have been developed in consultation with expert
psychometricians to measure mariner performance against the highest standards in
the industry.

The starting point of assessment are the minimum standards of competence
outlined in Standards of Training, Certification, and Watchkeeping (STCW) Table
A-II/1 and A-II/3. The scenario then incorporates real-time challenges mariners
encounter at sea, including:

 * Using Aids to navigation.
 * Bridge Resource Management.
 * Communication.
 * Managing tide and current.
 * Shiphandling.
 * Navigational dangers including shoal waters.
 * Areas of high traffic density.
 * Correct application of the Rules of the Road.
 * Vessel Traffic Systems.
 * Variable weather conditions including restricted visibility.

These challenges are integrated into the appropriate regulatory framework of
navigation rules, shipboard management systems and company policies and
procedures. With the addition of each layer, Subject Matter Experts evaluate the
realism and feasibility of the challenges created. By creating the scenario
element by element, the developers build a challenging assessment that remains
within a competent mariner’s capabilities.

THE BENEFITS OF THE NSAP®

NSAP® allows deck officers to improve their skills and assists companies in
determining where their crew members have room to grow. The assessment offers
benefits to organizations and individuals, including:

 * Assesses skills: Assessments that are developed to the highest standards and
   reviewed by leading experts in the industry. After an assessment, the raw
   data is analyzed to produce reports that provide results based on
   participants’ backgrounds and other statistics. Using this information,
   organizations can compare their employees’ skills.
 * Identifies skill gaps: The results of the NSAP® allow organizations and
   individuals to detect skill gaps, either across a group of deck officers or
   in a single person. With knowledge of those skill gaps, organizations can
   provide additional training or work with individuals to improve their
   knowledge and skill.
 * Improves maritime safety: The NSAP® aims to improve maritime safety through
   risk assessment and mitigation. The skills assessment provides companies with
   a means for evaluating risk and taking proactive measures to protect crew
   members and other vessels on the sea.
 * Simulates real situations: The NSAP® is a simulation, but it’s designed to
   closely mimic real-life situations and scenarios. The scenarios available
   allow you to get a realistic sense of how your crew members would respond and
   react in a particular circumstance.
 * Debriefing opportunity: At the end of the assessment, the participant and
   assessor debrief, which provides participants with an opportunity to learn
   and grow based on their performance in the scenario.
 * Multiple scenarios available: Various NSAP® scenarios are available to meet
   your organization’s needs. Your company can use the assessments to determine
   who to hire or to evaluate the skills of management or operational-level deck
   officers.

WHICH NSAP® DO YOU NEED?

NSAP® Oceans – Management Level
Primarily Management Level Deck Officers operating Deep Draft Vessels on Ocean
Routes subject to the Standards of Training, Certification, and Watchkeeping
(STCW).



NSAP® Oceans – Operational Level
Primarily for Operational Level Deck Officers operating Deep Draft Vessels on
Ocean Routes subject to the Standards of Training, Certification, and
Watchkeeping (STCW)

NSAP® Workboat
Primarily for Deck Officers operating vessels of a tonnage less than 3000 ITC
operating on Routes subject to the Standards of Training, Certification, and
Watchkeeping (STCW)

NSAP® River
Primarily for Deck Officers operating vessels of a tonnage less than 3000 ITC
operating on Routes generally not subject to the Standards of Training,
Certification, and Watchkeeping (STCW)

NSAP® New Hire
Primarily utilized to assist companies in the hiring process. The NSAP® new hire
is sometimes used by companies or organizations in combination with an
internally devised and set ‘cut-score’ to align to its organizational values in
addition to the NSAP®-set highest standards and industry best practices.

VIEW THE NSAP® BROCHURE!

NSAP
 



WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT NSAP®

Feedback about NSAP® has been highly positive. Read what some captains and
industry leaders said about the assessment:

 I’m highly impressed with the work you are doing and the way you go about
developing the NSAP® product. I also enjoyed meeting and spending time with the
MITAGS’ Leadership Team, an impressive group of people. And last but not least,
it was personally very gratifying to see the Cockpit Resource Management
principles we developed at NASA during the 70’s and 80’s translated so
effectively into the marine environment.
Dr. John Lauber

Former Chief of the Aeronautical Human Factors, Research Office of NASA

The NSAP® was a very effective way to accomplish both objectives and provided a
valuable tool to identify opportunities for improvement both on an individual
and fleet-wide level. It brought broad issues to the surface quickly like
over-reliance on ECDIS and lack of effective COLREGS application. Of further
note is a definite cultural shift after the officers went through the NSAP®
process: Captains were taking lessons learned back to their vessels to raise the
level of watchstanding by mates.
Captain Scott Craig

Director, Marine Development and Compliance, Crowley Marine Services

Overall, the assessment MITAGS’ West Coast campus has developed for their NSAP®
was observed to be sound and well aligned to the performance skills of interest.
Specifically, their group of subject matter experts possess an extraordinary
wealth of practical ship piloting knowledge and experience, and were able to
craft a well-designed exercise that incorporates more than 20 plausible,
challenging, and in some cases, unexpected event scenarios to serve as measures
for their assessment.
Alan Koenig PhD

UCLA National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing

The assessment process including the simulation scenarios are scientifically
engineered to uncover the true and actual level of competency of a navigating
officer giving ship owners/ship managers a vivid picture of risk areas that will
need to be mitigated. It provides highly valuable input equal to if not more
than what can be gathered from professional/technical interviews, simulation
training, workplace (on the job) assessment and performance appraisal combined.
Captain Terence Uytingban

General Manager, UltraShip Crewing Phils., Inc.


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