Source: https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/46/12.03-1
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46 CFR 12.03-1 - Coast Guard-accepted training other than approved courses. | US Law | LII / Legal Information Institute
CFR › Title 46 › Chapter I › Subchapter B › Part 12 › Subpart 12.03 › Section 12.03-1 46 CFR 12.03-1 - Coast Guard-accepted training other than approved courses.
§ 12.03-1
When the training and assessment of competence required by parts 10 or 12 of this subchapter are not subject to approval under § 11.302 of this chapter, but are used to qualify an applicant to hold an STCW or rating endorsement, the training and assessment must meet the following requirements:
The identity of other media or facilities to be used in conducting the training; and
Hold the level of Coast Guard credential or other professional credential required of those who would apply, on board a vessel, the relevant level of knowledge, skills, and abilities described in the training objectives.
Neither a specialist in a particular field of non-maritime education, such as mathematics or first aid, nor a person with at least 3 years of service as a member of the Armed Forces of the United States, specializing in a particular field, need hold a Coast Guard credential to conduct training in that field.
Essential equipment and instructional materials must afford each student adequate opportunity to participate in exercises and acquire practice in performing required skills.
Documentary evidence is readily available to establish that any evaluation of whether a student is competent in accordance with standards, methods, and criteria set out in part A of the STCW Code (incorporated by reference in § 12.01-3) is conducted by a designated examiner who has experience, training, or instruction in assessment techniques.
To ensure that the training is meeting its objectives, and the requirements of paragraphs (a) (1) through (9) of this section, its offeror must either—
Monitor it in accordance with a Coast Guard-accepted QSS, which must include the following features:
The training must be provisionally certified, on the basis of an initial independent evaluation conducted under a Coast Guard-accepted QSS, as being capable of meeting its stated objective.
The training must be periodically monitored in accordance with the schedule stipulated under the Coast Guard-accepted quality-standards system.
Each person evaluating or monitoring the training shall enjoy convenient access to all appropriate documents and facilities, and opportunities both to observe all appropriate activities and to conduct confidential interviews when necessary.
Each person conducting the initial evaluation under paragraph (a)(10)(ii)(A) of this section or the periodic monitoring of the training under paragraph (a)(10)(ii)(B) of this section shall communicate his or her conclusions to the Commanding Officer, National Maritime Center, NMC-2, 100 Forbes Drive, Martinsburg, West Virginia 25404, within 1 month of the completion or the evaluation of the monitoring.
Each offeror of the training shall let the Coast Guard or someone authorized by the Coast Guard observe the records of a student's performance and records otherwise relating to paragraphs (a) (1) through (10) of this section.
The Coast Guard will maintain a list of training each of whose offerors submits a certificate, initially not less than 45 calendar days before offering training under this section, and annually thereafter, signed by the offeror or its authorized representative, stating that the training fully complies with requirements of this section, and identifying the Coast Guard-accepted QSS being used for independent monitoring. Training on this list will offer the training necessary for both officer and STCW endorsements under this part. The Coast Guard will update this list periodically and make it available to members of the public on request.
If the Coast Guard determines, on the basis of observations or conclusions either of its own or of someone authorized by it to monitor the training, that the particular training does not satisfy one or more of the conditions described in paragraph (a) of this section—
The offeror may, within a period specified in the notice, either appeal the observations or conclusions to the National Maritime Center (NMC) or bring the training into compliance; and
If the appeal is denied—or the deficiency is not corrected in the allotted time, or within any additional period judged by the Coast Guard to be appropriate, considering progress towards compliance—the Coast Guard will remove the training from the list maintained under paragraph (b) of this section until it can verify full compliance; and it may deny applications for licenses for STCW endorsement based in whole or in part on training not on the list, until additional training or assessment is documented.
[CGD 95-062, 62 FR 34536, June 26, 1997, as amended by USCG-1998-4442, 63 FR 52189, Sept. 30, 1998; USCG-1999-5610, 67 FR 66068, Oct. 30, 2002; USCG-2004-18884, 69 FR 58343, Sept. 30, 2004; USCG-2008-0906, 73 FR 56508, Sept. 29, 2008; USCG-2006-24371, 74 FR 11256, Mar. 16, 2009]