Videotel Marine International creates training solutions predominantly for the Maritime industry. Others areas that benefit from the bespoke programmes are the offshore industry, the catering industry and the hotel industry, as well as corporate companies and government authorities.

By producing over twenty titles per year, Videotel maintain their on-going catalogue of training programmes, which offers the seafarer and others a wealth of information on safety and operational procedures. The easy-to-use catalogue incorporates 650 titles presented as multimedia courses, DVDs / videos, interactive CBTs, VCDs and printed workbooks. In addition there are 300 titles in the COBALT series, specifically designed for Engineers.

Videotel also supplies solutions in the form of web-deliverable training, Competency Management systems, Assessment requirements and e-learning.

Sometimes the solution to a training requirement can be as simple as changing the medium in which the training is delivered, or providing a translation into another language. Other times the solution may be more complex as to produce and host a multi-cultural, multi-user, multi-response programme over the Internet.

Whatever the requirement, Videotel will create the solution.

Fleet-wide Training Management
The need for ship managers to record all aspects of crew training has changed from advisory to mandatory.

More than ever before it is necessary for ship operators to maintain comprehensive and clear details of all the crew training that is carried out.This applies to all aspects of training whether it is attendance and completion of statutory STCW courses or the holding of training sessions onboard. The requirements of the ISM Code & STCW Code mean that crew need to take part in drills and other training events onboard and that all these are recorded. Having a good set of training records onboard when a Port State inspector or SIRE inspector visits, greatly increases the chances that he will be satisfied that the ship's training program is being well attended to. Similarly, in head office, being able to produce records of training for all ships and for all crew members will positively influence any audit.

Videotel offer two sophisticated systems that electronically gather training records to a centralised database:

Onboard Training Manager (OTMplus)

• Collects completed training records from our computer-based training packages, assessment packages and training courses.
• Records any type of training, including drills.
• Provides an easy-to-use facility to record who does what training, when and with assessments and scores (if appropriate).
• Assesses training effectiveness which can be used to measure the usefulness of any training.
• Can be included as part of Videotel's registered Safety Training Library Scheme.

Fleet Training Administrator (FTA)

• Enables the Training Manager or Fleet Manager to use his/her PC to view the entire training records of all his officers and crew.
• Imports training records from ships, including records of all onboard training as monitored and collected by the ship's OTMplus.
• Imports and enables the viewing of other training records such as assessment results from SETS, MEETS and other Videotel CBTs.
• Import of details of Certificates of Competence and shore-based short courses attended by trainees.
• Enables the viewing of training records of individual seafarers.
• Enables the viewing of training records of individual ships.
• Prints training crew and administration reports.

Videotel offer these systems as part of our registered Safety Training Library Scheme.

* FTA and OTMplus are developed jointly by Videotel and Spectral Technologies Inc.