15.1 To enhance the safety of navigation
these performance standards provide requirements for the treatment
of alerts within an INS and its associated individual operational/functional-modules
and sensor/source-modules.
15.2 The alert management harmonizes the priority,
classification, handling, distribution and presentation of alerts,
to enable the bridge team to devote full attention to the safe navigation
of the ship and to immediately identify any abnormal situation requiring
action to maintain the safe navigation of the ship.
15.3 These performance standards specify a
central alert management HMI to support the bridge team in
the immediate identification of any abnormal situation, of the source
and reason for the abnormal situation and support the bridge team
in its decisions for the necessary actions to be taken.
15.4 The alert management architecture and
the acknowledgement concept specified, avoid unnecessary distraction
of the bridge team by redundant and superfluous audible and visual
alarm announcements and reduces the cognitive load on the
operator by minimizing the information presented to which is
necessary to assess the situation.
15.5 The alert management should support the proper
application of SOLAS regulation V/15.
15.6 The architecture of the module of the performance
standards is kept extendable to allow to include further alerts on
the bridge and the development of performance standards for a bridge
alert management.