Maritime Training Services (MTS) - Marine Multimedia Training

Maritime Training Videos, CBT and On Demand Products

Maritime Training Services (MTS) produces maritime specific training videos and Computer based Training (CBT) that cover safety, regulatory, and operational topics. MTS delivers training on STCW / BST, ISM, ISPS , MARPOL, VGP, MLC, SOLAS, and more. MTS also has an On Demand service for video training and record-keeping.

MTS On Demand is designed specifically for the maritime industry. With this service, every MTS training video is available in one place and creates attendance records and generates training reports.

The Computer Based Training is easy to use, interactive, self-paced. CBT also includes assessments and certificates. They are also SCORM compliant and can be added to any SCORM compliant Learning Management System (LMS).

Subtitles versions are available in Chinese, English, French, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Russian, Spanish, and Tagalog. Maritime Training Services (MTS) offices are located at Seattle, WA; Houston, TX; and, Singapore.

Bridge Resource Management

• AIS: Review the fundamental functions of AIS.
• ARPA - Basic Principles CBT: Learn about ARPA and how to properly use it during navigation.
• Bridge Resource Management: Perform bridge tasks in an efficient manner.
• Collision When Overtaking: Review how non-compliance with COLREGs resulted in a collision between two vessels.
• Collision with a Fishing Vessel: If there is a risk of collision, take early action to avoid it.
• COLREGS and Best Navigational Practices CBT: Develop best practices to improve navigational safety.
• ECDIS: Learn the basics and satisfy generic ECDIS training requirements.
• Overreliance on ECDIS: While helpful for charting routes, here’s why ECDIS doesn’t replace traditional navigation skills.
• Watchkeeping: Learn the basics of navigational, engineering, and deck watch.

Cargo Handling

• Container Lashing and De-Lashing - Safety First: Improve lashing skills and minimize harm to yourself and your crew.
• Container Yard Forklift Safety: Learn safe container handling, and common types of trucks and lifts used.
• Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S) Safety: Reduce injuries caused by H2S gas.
• Inert Gas: Understand how inert gas systems prevent fires and explosions.
• Security Search Techniques - Ship's Stores: Learn how to keep packages from different sources secure.
• Shifting Ro-Ro Cargo in Heavy Weather: Review an animated incident aboard a Ro-Ro cargo vessel.
• Top Tips - Cargo Handling: Review cargo handling safety in this fun-to-watch presentation.
• Volatile Organic Compounds CBT: Understand the impacts and control procedures for VOCs.

Deck Operations

• Bunker Spill: Review how non-compliance with company SMS procedures resulted in an oil spill.
• Crane & Rigging Safety for the Maritime Industry: Organize safe and successful lifts.
• Deckhand Orientation: Build awareness for necessary safety measures aboard towing vessels.
• Hammerhead Crane Introduction: Introduction to Hammerhead and Transtainer Cranes.
• Hammerhead Crane Operational Scenarios: Tips for staying safe around the hook.
• Inland Vessel & Barge Familiarization: Learn deckhand basics.
• Line Handling - Workboats: Broken hands, crushed limbs, and even lost their lives are the result of improper line handling.
• Making and Breaking Tow - Safe Operating Practices: Control risk in this dangerous and changing environment.
• Mooring Injury: Review how not properly addressing risks in a mooring incident results in a serious injury.
• Painting Accessible Surfaces: Review the basics of a simple paint job.
• Pilot Ladders - Safe Rigging Procedures: Perform safe and efficient pilot transfers at sea.
• Ship Stability - Basic Concepts: Learn the basic concepts of ship stability.
• Ship Stability - Terms & Definitions: Understand the core terms and definitions of ship stability.
• U.S. Port State Control - Shipshape and Inspection Ready: Be prepared for USCG and Immigration inspections.
• Working on the Back Deck: Build awareness for staying safe in this environment.
• Working Relationships with Pilots: Ensure that your crew works well with Pilots.

Emergency Procedures

• Distress Signals and Equipment: Learn the different types of signals to ensure you are seen and heard.
• Drills - Preparing for On-Board Emergencies: An emergency can cause panic; a well-drilled crew avoids mistakes.
• Enclosed Space Entry - Rescue Drill Procedures: Watch crew perform the critical steps of an efficient rescue drill.
• Fire Drill - Prevent, Prepare, Practice: Minimize fire hazards on-board your vessel.
• First Aid & Bloodborne Pathogens: Prepare your crew for medical emergencies.
• Handling the Media: Focus your crew on dealing with the incident and not becoming the source of the story.
• Lifeboat Drills: Step-by-step guide for safe and successful drills.
• Orville Hook: Learn how to safely retrieve the barge and get back underway.
• Security Drills: Nine Steps to Success: The 9 basic steps to design and implement effective security drills.
• Security NOW! From Plan to Action: Understand how to prepare and implement your Shipboard Security Plan.
• Visual Distress Signals CBT: Review how and why to use different kinds of visual distress signals.

Engineering

• Death of a Bosun: Lockout/tagout incidents are preventable.
• Electrical Safety CBT: Learn about on board electrical systems and working safely around high voltage.
• Electrical Safety on Ships - Generation & Distribution Systems: Review the fundamentals of Generation and Distribution Systems.
• Electrical Safety on Ships - High Voltage Safety & Hazardous Area Safety: Review the fundamentals of High Voltage Safety and Hazardous Area Safety.
• Electrical Safety on Ships - Safety Testing Protocol & Personal Safety: Review the fundamentals of Electrical Testing and Personal Safety.
• Electricity - Fundamentals & Terms CBT: Become familiar with electricity's fundamental science and terminology.
• Engine Maintenance - Connection Rod Bottom End: Ensure that maintenance work is done properly and keep the components tight.
• Engine Room Resource Management: Perform engine room tasks in an efficient manner.
• Exhaust Gas Scrubbers & Caustic Soda Safety: Learn how exhaust gas scrubbers work and why they are important.
• Fall from a Generator Platform: When in doubt wear a safety harness.
• Lockout/Tagout: Ensuring a Safe Working Environment: Isolate dangerous energy sources until work is finished.
• Machine Tools 101: A primer on machine tools used in maritime.
• Oily Water Separators and the Oil Record Book: Know the regulations.

Environment

• Ballast Water Management: Learn how to comply with the latest regulations.
• Ballast Water Management Convention CBT: Learn the new BWM Convention regulations.
• Bunkering Operations - Safe Oil Transfer Procedures: Prevent costly and dangerous oil spills.
• Environmental Awareness CBT: Learn about MARPOL and tips to reduce energy consumption.
• Environmental Awareness - What You Can Do: Cut costs with on board energy efficient solutions.
• Garbage Management Plan: Learn MARPOL waste regulations and how to fill out a garbage record book.
• IMO 2020 Sulphur Cap - Regulations & Implications CBT: Make sure that you're in compliance with the tightening Sulphur cap restrictions.
• Marine Ecology CBT: Learn about marine environments and the life that inhabits them.
• Oily Water Separators and the Oil Record Book: Know the regulations.
• Onboard Oil Pollution Response - Be Your Best, Prepare for The Worst: Minimize contamination in the event of a spill.
• Ship Energy Efficiency Management Plan: Comply with mandatory requirements.
• Vessel General Permit 2013 - Protecting the Marine Environment: Simple steps to comply with VGP requirements.

Firefighting

• Basic Firefighting - Lives on the Line: Reduce the likelihood of mistakes during fire.
• Fire Drill! Prevent, Prepare, Practice: Minimize fire hazards on-board your vessel.
• Fire in Port - The Ship/Shore Interface: Work effectively with shore-side firefighters.
• Firefighting & Fire Prevention: Prevent and protect your crew from deadly fires.
• Portable Fire Extinguishers - Your First Line of Defense: Learn the essentials of effective firefighting.
• SCBA - Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus: Proper SCBA use could save your life.

Medical Procedures & Galley Safety

• Back Care and Strength Building - Move Right and Stay Safe: Proven methods for reducing on-the-job back injuries.
• Ergonomics for the Maritime Industry: Prevent injuries with proper positioning.
• First Aid & Bloodborne Pathogens: Prepare your crew for medical emergencies.
• Galley Safety - Health & Hazards: Address safety precautions to be followed in the galley.
• Medical Procedures - The Officers' Shipboard Guide: Ensure an accurate and timely assessment of illness or injury.
• Promoting Wellness and Preventing Fatigue: Learn simple tips for building a healthy lifestyle.

Personal Safety

• Basic Hygiene and Sanitation CBT: Learn best practices for preventing the spread of illness.
• Behavior Based Safety: Identify dangerous work patterns and how to correct them.
• Burn Injury to Engineer: Review how complacency can lead to injury in a real-world case study.
• Cold Weather Precautions CBT: Learn how to prepare for the unique challenges of cold weather.
• Container Yard Forklift Safety: Learn safe container handling, and common types of trucks and lifts used.
• Crane & Rigging Safety for the Maritime Industry: Organize safe and successful lifts.
• Creating a Strong Safety Culture: See the difference a strong safety culture makes.
• Crew Injury in Heavy Weather: Review how poor decision making led to a serious injury to two crew-members.
• Death of a Bosun: Lockout/tagout incidents are preventable.
• Dockside Signals and Safety: Communicate safely when working under the hook.
• Electrical Safety on Ships - Generation & Distribution Systems: Review the fundamentals of Generation and Distribution Systems.
• Electrical Safety on Ships - High Voltage Safety & Hazardous Area Safety: Review the fundamentals of High Voltage Safety and Hazardous Area Safety.
• Electrical Safety on Ships - Safety Testing Protocol & Personal Safety: Review the fundamentals of Electrical Testing and Personal Safety.
• Electricity - Safety at Sea: Learn the basics of identifying and mitigating electrical hazards at sea.
• Eye Injury to Fitter: Review how improper use of equipment can lead to injury in a real-world case study.
• Fall from a Generator Platform: When in doubt wear a safety harness.
• Hand Safety Awareness: Learn simple prevention techniques.
• Hazard Awareness - General Advice: Promote personal injury prevention and situational awareness.
• Hearing Conservation: Prevent permanent hearing damage.
• Heat Exposure Precautions CBT: Learn basic precautions to minimize heat exposure and illness.
• Hot Work & Fire Watch: Safely prepare for hot work.
• Incident Investigation - Case Study Video: A reflective-learning video of how an investigation can go awry.
• Incident Investigation – Fundamentals: Teach your crew the fundamental procedures of an incident investigation.
• International Safety Management Code: Identify and understand key ISM objectives.
• Ladder Safety: Understand guidelines for safe ladder use.
• Lockout/Tagout - Ensuring a Safe Working Environment: Isolate dangerous energy sources until work is finished.
• Personal Injury Prevention - Building a Safety Culture: Develop a safety culture and minimize personal injuries.
• Personal Injury Prevention - Work Safe, Stay Safe: Ensure a safe working environment.
• Personal Protective Equipment: Build awareness to prevent serious injury.
• Pilot Ladders - Safe Use Techniques: Minimize stress and maximize safety.
• Potable Water CBT: Learn how to test, treat, store, distribute, and monitor potable water on your vessel.
• Proper Lighting: Learn best practices for proper lighting on board a vessel.
• Reacting to Harassment, Bullying & Discrimination: Learn strategies to deal with hostile scenarios.
• Respiratory Protection: Learn how, why, and when to use respiratory protection.
• Safe Hand Washing: Learn proper hand washing techniques to help prevent the spread of illnesses.
• Serious Injury to Pilot: Review how a lack of attention to detail can lead to injury in a real-world case study.
• Slips, Trips, and Falls: Identify and eliminate the major hazards.
• Top 10 Safety Tips: Understand the top 10 safety tips in 60 seconds or less.
• Top Tips - Maritime Accident Prevention: Avoid common deck accidents.
• Working at Heights: Develop a rescue plan and review the dangers of suspension trauma.

Personal Survival

• Distress Signals and Equipment: Learn the different types of signals to ensure you are seen and heard.
• Immersion Suit Training: You are seven times more likely to survive an emergency at sea if you are wearing an immersion suit.
• Life Rafts: Learn SOLAS for the use of inflatable life rafts.
• Lifeboat Drills: Step-by-step guide for safe and successful drills.
• Man Overboard! Procedures and Precautions: Prevent man-overboard incidents.
• Risk Normalization - Man Overboard: Watch a case study about risk normalization.
• Severe Weather - Preparation and Response: Be prepared and know how to respond when severe weather is forecasted.
• Weather - Storms, Waves, Fog, and Ice: Four types of weather events and how to prepare for and respond to each.

Risk Management

• Confined Space Entry: Learn best practices and prevent fatal accidents.
• Cyber Security: Stop cyber-attacks on your vessel and network before they start.
• Enclosed Space Entry Fatality: Review how an improperly completed permit to work led to a death during an enclosed space entry.
• Enclosed Space Entry - Hazard Awareness: Avoid deadly hazards and maintain a safe environment.
• Enclosed Space Entry - Preparations & Rescue: Refresh your crew about enclosed space entry and rescue procedures & equipment.
• Enclosed Space Entry - Rescue Drill Procedures: Watch crew perform the critical steps of an efficient rescue drill.
• Enclosed Space Entry - Safe Entry Procedures: Understand how to prepare and perform the entry.
• Hazard Communication: Learn the basics of The Globally Harmonized System.
• Incident Investigation - Case Study Video: A reflective-learning video of how an investigation can go awry.
• Incident Investigation – Fundamentals: Teach your crew the fundamental procedures of an incident investigation.
• Job Safety Analysis: Identify a job's steps and avoid potential dangers.
• Personal Injury Prevention - Building a Safety Culture: Develop a safety culture and minimize personal injuries.
• Personal Injury Prevention - Work Safe, Stay Safe: Ensure a safe working environment.
• Piracy CBT: Familiarize your crew with anti-piracy best management practices.
• Risk Assessment: Reduce the likelihood of injury or loss of life.
• STCW Compliance - 2010 Manila Amendments: What's new in STCW 2010, and what's changed from STCW 1995.
• Stowaways CBT: Learn how to respond to this age-old problem in a 21st century context.
• WHMIS 2015: Understand the dangers of hazardous products.

Security

• Access Control - Threat Awareness and Prevention: Understand and prevent unauthorized access to your ship.
• Common Maritime Security Threats: See the 6 most common maritime security threats.
• Cyber Security CBT: Protect your vessel and network from attacks.
• Explosives! Search and Response Procedures: Understand the threat of explosives to lessen your vulnerability.
• General Security Techniques CBT: Keep your ship secure and minimize threats.
• ISPS Code: Understand the 5 key components of a Security Plan.
• Maritime Security Awareness Training Workbook - Digital Version: Satisfy ISPS and USCG Security Awareness Training requirements.
• Piracy - Preparations, Precautions, and Response: Reduce the threat of pirate attacks and to respond appropriately.
• Security Drills - Nine Steps to Success: The 9 basic steps to design and implement effective security drills.
• Security NOW! From Plan to Action: Understand how to prepare and implement your Shipboard Security Plan.
• Security NOW! The Assessment: Develop and implement an effective security assessment.
• Security NOW! The On-Scene Survey: Minimize the threat of attacks by performing an effective survey.
• Security NOW! The Security Plan: Identify and prepare the Shipboard Security Plan.
• Security Search Techniques - Accommodation: Detect and eliminate unwanted or illegal items from the ship.
• Security Search Techniques – Baggage: How to prepare and conduct a baggage search.
• Security Search Techniques – Personnel: Conduct safe and thorough personnel searches.
• Security Search Techniques - Ship's Stores: Learn how to keep packages from different sources secure.
• Ship Security Officer - Duties and Responsibilities: Learn how an SSO maximizes ship security.
• Stowaways CBT: Learn how to respond to this age-old problem in a 21st century context.
• Stowaways! A New View on Prevention: Defend against stowaways and prevent them from coming on board.
• Vessel Security Search: Prevent piracy and maritime crime.

Other Courses

• Anger Management: Don't let anger spill over into an outburst.
• Bulk Carriers - An Introduction: Learn the history, role, and importance bulk carriers have in the world.
• Conflict Management: Learn how to manage conflict and keep interactions productive.
• Creating a Strong Safety Culture: See the difference a strong safety culture makes.
• Crew Endurance Management System Awareness Workbook: Enhance productivity with a routine work schedule.
• Crew Endurance - Live Better, Perform Your Best: Identify factors that affect safe workplace performance.
• Drug and Alcohol Prevention: Understand the relationship between substance abuse and shipboard accidents.
• Effective Communication - Active Listening and Assertive Speaking: Strengthen communication and improve safety and performance.
• Effective Communication - Better Body Language and Behavior: Keys to a safe and happy workplace.
• Effective Communication - Constructive Feedback and Cultural Awareness: Positive communication feedback.
• Harassment and Bullying Prevention: Promote professionalism, civility, and a positive work environment.
• Housekeeping: Reduce injuries by creating an on-board housekeeping program.
• Leadership, Teamwork & Managerial Skills: Enhance your leadership skills.
• Living On Board: Know the benefits and challenges of life at sea.
• Maritime Labor Convention - Know Your Rights: Comply with Maritime Labor Convention regulations.
• Maritime Regulations 101: Learn about key maritime regulations and the creation of the IMO.
• Performance Appraisals: Conduct effective and constructive employee performance appraisals.
• Resilience CBT: Know how to maintain resilience in a stressful work environment.
• Shipboard Familiarization: Understand your vessel and your duties.
• Shipping 101: A primer on shipping basics and Maritime Law.
• Speaking Up and Approachability: Seafarers have a responsibility to voice their concerns, for everyone's safety.
• Time Management: Become more successful by managing your time more effectively.
• Train the Trainer: Create an engaging learning environment for your crew.
• Writing Effective Email: Improve your email composition and writing skills.

LAST UPDATED ON Nov 22, 2022