MARITIME SECURITY OFFICER

GMD Maritime Security Officer Certification of Completion

To compliment the required external qualifications and to ensure that GMD maritime security members remain current with the company’s policies and procedures, Maritime Security Officer (MSO) induction training is presented by GMD’s experienced trainers to all newly recruited GMD maritime security members.

5 days

GMD Training Centre, Cape Town, South Africa

Successfully passed GMD’s selection process

Module One: Maritime Security Officer
• Understand the Role of Maritime Organizations
• Understand current Maritime Security Guidance
• Understand current Maritime Legislation
• Understand the Maritime Threat
• Understand the Merchant Shipping Operating Environment and Procedures
• Understand current employment requirements for Maritime Security Operatives
• Understand Pre-deployment Processes used by GMD for Teams and Equipment
• Understand Familiarisation Procedures on board a ship
• Know how on board Briefings and Training relating to external security threats are conducted
• Understand Crew Roles and Responsibilities
• Know how to implement Firearms Management Plans
• Understand the importance of applying Best Management Practice 5 (BMP5) in Maritime Security Operations
• Understand the importance of applying Global Counter Piracy Guidance (GCPG) for Companies, Masters and Seafarers in Maritime Security Operations
• Understand the Ships’ Communications and Alert Systems
• Understand GMD’s Graduated Response (GR) and Rules of the Use of Force (RoUF)
• Understand GMD’s ‘Firearm states’, Carriage, Inventory and Maintenance of firearms
• Know how to interpretation of Intelligence Reports and Summaries
• Be able to Navigate and use Navigational Equipment and Charts for security duties
• Understand how to manage Incidents
• Know the requirements of Post Transit Reports (PTRs)
• Know Disembarkation Procedures
• Know how to operate GMDs’ Security Equipment

Module Two: Medical
• Role and Responsibilities of a First Responder providing Emergency Care
• Incident Assessment
• Patient assessment
• Assess a patient’s airway
• Manage a patient’s airway
• Manage an unresponsive patient who is not breathing normally
• Use of appropriate equipment during a resuscitation attempt
• Administer emergency oxygen
• Manage catastrophic bleeding
• Manage a patient who is in shock
• Manage a patient who is bleeding
• Manage a patient with burns or scalds
• Manage a patient with minor injuries
• Manage a patient with sudden poisoning
• Provide emergency care to a patient with head and spinal injuries
• Provide emergency care to a patient with injuries to bones, muscles and joints
• Identify a patient with breathing difficulties
• Manage a patient with breathing difficulties
• Manage a patient with anaphylaxis
• Manage a patient with suspected major illness
• Manage a patient who is in seizure
• Provide emergency care for the effects of environmental exposure
• Compile a GMD MEDEVAC Request

Module Three: GMD Firearms
• Know the main working parts of GMD ‘s firearms
• Understand the Advantages and Disadvantages of utilising 7.62 x 51mm and 5.56 x 45mm rifles during MSMs
• Know the Sequence of conducting safety precautions upon handling, prior to stripping and after firing a firearm
• Know how to Strip and Assemble GMD firearms in the correct sequence and conduct a function check after cleaning the firearms
• Know how to properly Maintain GMD firearms used in maritime environments
• Know how to Adjust the sights on all GMD firearms used during Maritime Security Missions
• Understand the different Firearms Stages used by GMD during Maritime Security Missions
• Know how to execute Immediate Action (IA) drills on all GMD firearms
• Know how to execute Remedial Action drills on all GMD firearms if IA drills failed to resolve the malfunction
• Describe how environment frictions influence a projectile’s flight and point of impact when fired from a large vessel at sea Factors that influence the selection of shooting stances onboard a vessel
• Understand the factors that influence the selection of shooting stances onboard a large vessel
• Know how to properly prepare a firing positions onboard a large vessel
• Understand Shot Placement and Target Priorities during Maritime Security Missions
• Know how to properly Zero GMD firearms for and during Maritime Security Missions
• Fire accurately from a vessel by considering wave action during Maritime Security Missions
• Execute life fire IA drills with GMD’s maritime firearms
• Pass GMD’s maritime firearms shooting test