Maritime QuestionsDP — Safety-II & Resilience

Which of the following best demonstrates the "Anticipate" resilience capacity in a DP watchkeeping context?

A. Anticipation is a shore-management function and has no practical application on watch
B. The DPO waits until the ASOG amber alarm activates before considering what to do next
C. The DPO only checks the weather forecast once per watch, regardless of how it is trending
D. The DPO reviews the weather forecast trend for the next six hours at the start of watch and proactively discusses with the Master what ASOG actions will be taken if the forecast deterioration materialises, before any limit is approached
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What is the fundamental difference in focus between a Safety-I approach and a Safety-II approach to DP operations?
A. Safety-I and Safety-II are simply two names for the same incident investigation method
B. Safety-II only applies to engineering systems, never to human performance
C. Safety-I is the newer model that has fully replaced Safety-II in modern DP guidance
D. Safety-I focuses on identifying and eliminating causes of things going wrong, defining safety as the absence of incidents; Safety-II focuses on understanding how things usually go right despite variability, defining safety as the presence of the capacity to adapt and succeed under varying conditions
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What is meant by the distinction between "work-as-imagined" and "work-as-done" in a DP context, and why does it matter?
A. The distinction is only relevant to shore management, not to the DPO on watch
B. They are identical by definition — procedures always exactly describe what crews actually do
C. "Work-as-done" refers only to maintenance tasks, not watchkeeping
D. "Work-as-imagined" is what procedures, checklists, and management assume happens; "work-as-done" is what actually happens on watch, including the informal adaptations crew make to handle real conditions — gaps between the two are where unrecognised risk and unrecognised good practice both hide
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