RYA Professional Practices & Responsibilities Online Course
£39.00
Delivered by RYA Interactive.
The RYA Professional Practices & Responsibilities (PPR) course is a pre-requisite for anyone applying for or renewing their commercial endorsement through the RYA.
Duration: You can complete the course and assessment at your own pace and in the comfort of your home or office.
What you can expect to learn:
Ensuring your vessel is suitable and legal for the work you are doing.
Creating and implementing risk control and operating procedures.
Compulsory carriage and maintenance of safety equipment.
Your obligations to crew and passengers.
Planning and situational awareness.
The safe management of commercial vessels.
Ready to get going?
We will register and enrol you once payment is received and send your login etc by separate email.
Payment can be made by Apple Pay, Google Pay, Credit/Debit Card or PayPal (NO ACCOUNT OR SIGN UP REQ’D).
If you wish to pay via Bacs Transfer this can be completed at checkout.
WHAT THE COURSE COVERS
Whatever vessel you work on it will help you understand & execute your duty of care & give you the principles, guidance & techniques to make the right choices & decisions. More importantly, it will teach you where to find the information you need to ensure you are operating within the law.
What you can expect to learn:
Ensuring your vessel is suitable & legal for the work you are doing
Creating & implementing risk control & operating procedures
Compulsory carriage & maintenance of safety equipment
Your obligations to crew & passengers
Planning & situational awareness
The safe management of commercial vessels
WHAT THE COURSE CONTAINS
Once you have registered & paid with RYA Interactive you will be enrolled onto the course.
You can commence the course immediately, all you need is a computer & internet access.
The course consists of 4 modules, the RYA estimate users will take around 6 to 8 hours to work through the four course modules.
Following these, there is a mock assessment so you can check you are ready before moving on to the final online assessment. The graded end of course assessment is split into two sections, Scenario based & General Knowledge. These are timed assessments totalling 2 ½ hours.
On successful completion of the final assessments you can print off your own certificate.
COMPATIBILITY REQUIREMENTS
Minimum requirements:
Mac or PC with JavaScript enabled in your web browser.
iPad IOS 6 or above
Android tablet on OS 4.1 or above (we advise using Google Chrome rather than default Android browser)
Please note we cannot guarantee the course will work on all Android tablets as the variety on the market is so vast, but our testing so far has been successful.
Recommended Reading for the RYA Professional Practices & Responsibilities (PPR) Online Course
RYA Commercial Regulations – Small Vessels (G105)
Anyone who ventures afloat while operating commercially needs to be aware of their responsibilities to the vessel, those around them & the environment. This book covers these responsibilities & has been split into the following three sections: The Legal Framework Regulation of Vessels The Skipper & Crew Filled with essential information, it will help the reader understand & execute their duty of care, & gives the principles, guidance & techniques to make the right choices & decisions for all craft operating commercially from small RIBs up to 200gt vessels. The book is designed to accompany the new RYA’s Professional Practices & Responsibilities course and is written by Simon Jinks, a former RYA Chief Cruising Instructor & an acknowledged authority in the field of small vessel training & safety management.
£16.49 available as an eBook
PRE-COURSE REQUIREMENTS & SUITABILITY:
PPR is for anyone using a RYA qualification or Certificate of Competence to gain a commercial endorsement in order to work professionally as skipper or crew and is a compulsory online course for new and revalidating RYA Commercial Endorsement holders.
Whatever vessel you work on it will help you understand & execute your duty of care and give you the principles, guidance and techniques to make the right choices and decisions. PPR is for anyone using a RYA qualification or Certificate of Competence to gain a commercial endorsement in order to work professionally as skipper or crew.





