5 General
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Statutory Documents - IMO Publications and Documents - Resolutions - Maritime Safety Committee - Resolution MSC.302(87) – Adoption of Performance Standards for Bridge Alert Management – (Adopted on 17th May 2010) - Annex – Performance Standards for Bridge Alert Management - Module A – Presentation and Handling of Alerts on the Bridge - 5 General

5 General

  5.1 The BAM should provide:

  • .1 the means used to draw the attention of the bridge team to the existence of alert situations;

  • .2 the means to enable the bridge team to identify and address that condition;

  • .3 the means for the bridge team and pilot to assess the urgency of different alert situations in cases where more than one alert situation has to be handled;

  .4 the means to enable the bridge team to handle alert announcements; and

  • .5 the means to manage all alert-related states in a distributed system structure in a consistent manner.

  5.2 If practicable, there should be not more than one alert for one situation that requires attention.

  5.3 As alerts can be displayed at several locations, the presentation of the alert on the bridge equipment should be consistent as far as practicable with respect to how alerts are displayed, silenced and acknowledged. The states of alerts should be consistent on the bridge.

  5.4 It should be possible to provide the CAM-HMI at least on the workstation for navigating and manoeuvring, and if provided at the workstation for monitoring.

  5.5 If an INS is installed on the bridge the functionality of the INS alert management HMI and the CAM-HMI should be integrated.


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