2 General Principles
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2 General Principles

  2.1 Shipboard personnel are not security experts and it is not the aim of the provisions of the Guidance to convert them into security specialists.

  2.2 Shipboard personnel should receive adequate security-related training or instruction and familiarization training so as to acquire the required knowledge and understanding to perform their assigned duties and to contribute collectively to the enhancement of maritime security.

  2.3 Shipboard personnel should receive adequate security-related training or instruction at least one time in their career.

  2.4 The security-related familiarization training should be conducted by the ship security officer or an equally qualified person.

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