18 DE ABRIL DE 1998

1044-(191)

Main and auxiliary machinery operation simulation

42 — Engine-room simulation equipment should be capable of simulating a main and auxiliary machinery system and incorporate facilities to:

1) Create a real-time environment for seagoing and harbour operations with communication devices and simulation of appropriate main and auxiliary propulsion machinery equipment and control panels;

2) Simulate relevant subsystems that should include but not be restricted to boiler, steering gear, electrical power general and distribution systems including emergency power supplies and fuel, cooling water, refrigeration, bilge and ballast systems;

3) Monitor and evaluate engine performance and remote sensing systems;

4) Simulate machinery malfunctions;

5) Allow for the variable external conditions to be changed so as to influence the simulated operations: weather, ship's draught, sea water and air temperatures;

6) Allow for instructor controlled external conditions to be changed: deck steam, accommodation steam, deck air, ice conditions, deck cranes, heavy power, bow thrust, ship load;

7) Allow for instructor controlled simulator dynamics to be changed: emergency run, process responses, ship responses; and

8) Provide a facility to isolate certain processes, such as speed, electrical system, diesel oil system, lubricating oil system, heavy oil system, seawater system, steam system, exhaust boiler and turbo generator for performing specific training tasks.

SECTION B-I/13

Guidance regarding the conduct of trials

(No provisions.)

SECTION B-I/14

Guidance regarding responsibilities of companies and recommended responsibilities of masters and crew members

Companies

1 — Companies should provide ship specific introductory programmes aimed at assisting newly employed seafarers to familiarize themselves with all procedures and equipment relating to their areas of responsibility.

Master

2 — The master should take all steps necessary to implement any company instructions issued in accordance with section A-I/14. Such steps should include:

1) Identifying all seafarers who are newly employed on board the ship before they are assigned to any duties;

2) Providing the opportunity for all newly arrived seafarers to:

2.1) Visit the spaces in which their primary duties will be performed;

2.2) Get acquainted with the location, controls and display features of equipment they will be operating or using;

2.3) Activate the equipment when possible and perform functions using the controls on the equipment; and

2.4) Observe and ask questions of someone who is already familiar with the equipment, procedures and

other arrangements, and who can communicate information in a language which the seafarer understands; and

3) Providing for a suitable period of supervision when there is any doubt that a newly employed seafarer is familiar with the shipboard equipment, operating procedures and other arrangements needed for the proper performance of his or her duties.

Crew members

3 — Seafarers who are newly assigned to a ship should take full advantage of every opportunity provided to become familiar with the shipboard equipment, operating procedures and other arrangements needed for the proper performance of their duties. Immediately upon arriving on board for the first time, each seafarer has the responsibility to become acquainted with the ship's working environment, particularly with respect to new or unfamiliar equipment, procedures or arrangements.

4 — Seafarers who do not promptly attain the level of familiarity required for performing their duties have the obligation to bring this fact to the attention of their supervisor or to the attention of the crew member designated in accordance with section A-I/14, subparagraph 2.2), and to identify any equipment, procedure or arrangement which remains unfamiliar.

SECTION B-I715 Guidance regarding transitional provisions

(No provisions.)

CHAPTER II

Guidance regarding the master and the deck department

SECTION B-II/1

Guidance regarding the certification of officers in charge of a navigational watch on ships of 500 gross tonnage or more

Training

1 — Every candidate for certification as officer in charge of a navigational watch should have completed a planned and structured programme of training designed to assist a prospective officer to achieve the standard of competence in accordance with table A-II/1.

2 — The structure of the programme of training should be set out in a training plan which clearly expresses for all parties involved the objectives of each stage of training on board and ashore. It is important that the prospective officer, tutors, ships' staff and company personnel are clear about the competences which are to be achieved at the end of the programme and how they are to be achieved through a combination of education, training and practical experience on board and ashore.

3 — The mandatory periods of seagoing service are of prime importance in learning the job of being a ship's officer and in achieving the overall standard of competence required. Properly planned and structured, the periods of seagoing service will enable prospective officers to acquire and practise skills and will offer oppor-