WHAT ARE THE MOST EFFECTIVE WAYS OF TRAINING CRM SKILLS?
In the year 2000, the Maritime Coastguard Agency (MCA), following a recommendation of the Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) in response to the loss of the Green Lily, awarded a project to a research team at Warsash Maritime Centre. The remit of the project was to investigate the potential use of simulators for training in the handling crises and escalating emergencies. This project enabled the researchers to review current concepts and models in the field of resource and crisis management across a range of safety critical industries and to conduct a survey of expert opinion on the optimal training and assessment regimes (Barnett et al 2002). In order to ascertain the optimal types of simulation to provide training and assessment of non-technical skills, the Warsash research team used a panel of 15 experts drawn from marine simulation resources as well as researchers and practitioners from other similar safety critical industries. Within this project, the Policy Delphi Method
