ABSTRACT: The team of authors is engaged in the IMO corresponding group on INS / Alert Management and in national task groups primarily specialising in ?Navigational Alert Management? matters. This presentation is based on the outcome of serious discussions carried out at different work group sessions in Germany and has been widely used as a guideline when details of an Alert Management concept are analysed (e.g. alert related communication and de-escalation strategies). A separate paragraph of definitions within this presentation describes ?Function Alerts? which are not relevant for the navigational tasks carried out by the officer of the watch. Alerts appear to be nonrelevant became the subject under discussion whether their announcement should be automatically filtered out by a navigational module within an INS. This could be one effective method of resolution to minimise (the number of high priority) alerts.

KEYWORDS: Integrated Navigation System (INS), Integration of Navigation, Navigational Alert Management, Alert Management, Function Alerts, Functional Integration, System Alerts

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