Profiles in Training: Ken Chapman Senior Instructor, Maersk Training
Ken Chapman has led as deep and as broad of a maritime and offshore life as possible, an accrued experience and knowledge including being part of the team that had to coordinated during one of the offshore oil and gas industry’s worst disasters ever: the Piper Alpha. Today he reflects with Offshore Engineer on how these experiences helped drive him into a career in training, today as the Senior Instructor, Maersk Training.Ken, to start can you give an overview of your career with insights on your current position?My working life started in the Merchant Navy (MN) (the U.S. equivalent of the
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SCALE, Singapore Polytechnic, SkillsFuture Singapore and Workforce Singapore. The exhibition was a joint initiative to provide participants with an overview of the various manpower initiatives available to employers and individuals. At the panel discussion, HR leaders and industry experts from Alpha Ori Technologies, A.P Moller-Maersk, Cheng Xin ShipManagement, Klaveness Asia, Kuehne+Nagel and Mercer shared their experiences and insights on how technology has enabled them to improve training and operations. The panelists also discussed how HR plays a critical role in organizational change and
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to improve the lives of crew members by providing additional services and the ability to stay in touch with home as well as boost the efficiency of vessel operations.” In addition to sponsorship by KVH and Intelsat, the report received support from leading maritime organizations BIMCO, Alpha Navigation, PTC, ISWAN and InterManager
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in new equipment and new management systems. We had OPITO auditors with us for every day throughout the duration of the course before gaining approval. “Safety standards remain of paramount importance to the oil and gas sector and have become increasingly strident ever since the Piper Alpha North Sea incident in 1988. It is our mission to be recognized by industry as a world-class training centre for the offshore industry, shipping companies, cruise line operators, maritime engineering firms and shipyards. In addition, we can work with companies in the highways, rail and construction
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cuts. Wood Group announced in February a 9-percent cut in wages of around 200 British contractors, following pay reductions in December 2015 and May 2014. The unions said they would now consider how to proceed and were open to further talks. Shell said its platforms concerned were Brent Alpha, Bravo and Charlie, Gannet, Nelson, Curlew and Shearwater. "We are committed to continuing to engage openly with our employees and the unions with a view to reaching a positive resolution," said Dave Stewart, chief executive for Wood Group's eastern region business unit.  
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in Piraeus, Greece. According to Wikborg Rein, Shepherd has a reputation as an 'owner's lawyer' for the Greek shipping market, where he is the first-choice lawyer for a number of the largest shipping groups, including TMS / Dryships / Ocean Rig (George Economou); the Navios Group (MAngeliki Frangou); Alpha Bulkers / Pantheon Tankers ( Anna Angelicoussi); and Marmaras Navigation / Delta Tankers (Diamantis Diamantides). Shepherd’s practice spans a wide range of contentious and non-contentious work, including charter parties, drilling contracts, logistics, casualties, marine insurance, sale and
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used to take. "It doesn't mean they're better - it's just a necessity. He said that will become a safety issue and he doesn't want to be there when something goes wrong," Cole said. Some industry veterans point out that younger managers have no direct memory of the 1988 Piper Alpha disaster, in which 167 men died after a gas explosion. That accident occurred against a backdrop of industry cost-cutting adopted after the 1986 oil price plunge - a similarity that is ringing alarm bells with some. "The scars and memories of an event like Piper are leaving
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to deliver tangible benefits to both industry employees and employers. “The need for every offshore worker to be trained to appropriate safety standards and the creation of a system for logging their certification were among the outcomes of Lord Cullen’s investigation into the Piper Alpha tragedy,” said OPITO Group chief executive David Doig. “This saw workers issued with hard copies of their personal training records up until the establishment of the Central Register and the Vantage system for North Sea operators that we have today. Having a centrally managed database
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boats. MPYD has received recognition for design excellence in winning the 1995 and 1996 Showboats International Awards, the 2005 Superyacht Award and the 2012 World Yachts Award. Michael Peters received the 2002 Good Design Award from the Chicago Athenaeum for the design of the 33' mahogany runabout Alpha Z. MPYD’s 61’ stepped hull patrol boat design was awarded the contract for the U.S. Navy Combatant Craft Medium in 2014. Since 1981 MPYD has produced over 400 designs to which an estimated 30,000+ custom and production boats have been built. Peters has also received U.S