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terns; service requirements and operating characteristics of the cargo handling systems and liquid re-circulation;

2) Instrumentation systems including cargo level indicators; gas-detection systems; hull and cargo temperature monitoring systems; the various methods of transmitting a signal from a sensor to the monitoring station and automatic shutdown systems;

3) Boil-off disposal including use as fuel; compressors; heat exchanger; gas piping and ventilation in machinery and manned spaces; principles of dual-fuel boilers, gas turbines, diesel engines; emergency venting and re-liquefication;

4) Auxiliary systems including ventilation and iner-ting; quick-closing, remote control, pneumatic, excess flow, safety relief, and pressure/vacuum valves; steam systems for voids, ballast tanks and condenser; and

5) General principles of operating the cargo-handling plant including inerting cargo, tanks and void spaces; tank cool-down and loading; operations during loaded and ballasted voyages; discharging and tank stripping; emergency procedures, and pre-planned action in the event of leaks, fires,. collision, stranding, emergency cargo discharge and personnel casualty.

Proof of qualification

16 — The master of every oil, chemical and liquefied gas tanker should ensure that the officer primarily responsible for the cargo possesses an appropriate certificate, issued or endorsed or validated as required by regulation V/l, paragraph 4, and has had adequate recent practical experience on board an appropriate type of tanker to permit that officer to safely perform the duties assigned.

SECTION B-V/2

Guidance regarding mandatory minimum requirements for the training and qualification of masters, officers, ratings and other . personnel on ro-ro passenger ships.

(No provisions.)

SECTION B-V/3

Guidance regarding additional training for masters and chief mates of large ships and ships with unusual manoeuvring characteristics

1 — It is important that masters and chief mates should have had relevant experience and training before assuming the duties of master or chief mate of large ships or ships having unusual manoeuvring and handling characteristics significantly different from those in which they have recently served. Such characteristics will generally be found in ships which are of considerable deadweight or length or of special design or of high speed.

2 — Prior to their appointment to such a ship, masters and chief mates should:

1) Be informed of the ship's handling characteristics by the company, particularly in relation to the knowledge, understanding and proficiency listed under ship manoeuvring and handling in column 2 of table A-II/2, "Specification of the minimum standard of competence for masters and chief mates of ships of 500 gross tonnage or more»; and

2) Be made thoroughly "familiar with the use of all navigational and manoeuvring aids fitted in the ship concerned, including their capabilities and limitations.

3 — Before initially assuming command of one of the ships referred to above, the prospective master should

have sufficient and appropriate general experience as master or chief mate, and either:

1) Have sufficient and appropriate experience manoeuvring the same ship under supervision or in manoeuvring a ship having similar manoeuvring characteristics; or

2) Have attended an approved ship-handling simulator course on an installation capable of simulating the manoeuvring characteristics of such a ship.

4 — The additional training and qualifications of masters and chief mates of dynamically supported and high speed craft should be in accordance with the relevant guidelines of the IMO Code of Safety for Dynamically Supported Craft and the IMO Code of Safety for High Speed Craft (HSC) Code, as appropriate.

SECTION B-V/4

Guidance regarding training of officers and ratings responsible for cargo handling on ships carrying dangerous and hazardous substances in solid form in bulk.

1 — Training should be divided into two parts, a general part on the principles involved and a part on the application of such principles to ship operation. All training and instruction should be given by properly qualified and suitably experienced personnel and cover at least the subjects given in paragraphs 2 to 14 hereunder.

Principles Characteristics and properties

2 — The important physical characteristics and chemical properties of dangerous and hazardous substances, Sufficient to give a basic understanding of the intrinsic hazards and risks involved.

Classification of materials possessing chemical hazards

3 — IMO dangerous goods classes 4-9 and materials hazardous only in bulk (MHB) and the hazards associated with each class.

Health hazards

4 — Dangers from skin contact, inhalation, ingestion and radiation.

Conventions, regulations and recommendations

5 — General familiarization with the relevant requirements of chapters u-2 and vit of the 1974 SOLAS Convention as amended.

6 — General use of and familiarization with the Code of Safe Practice for Solid Bulk Cargoes (BC Code) with particular reference to:

1) Safety of personnel including safety equipment, measuring instruments, their use and practical application and interpretation of results;

2) Hazards from cargoes which have a tendency to shift; and

3) Materials possessing chemical hazards.

Shipboard application

Class 4.1 — Flammable solids Class 4.2 — Substances liable to spontaneous combustion Class 43 — Substances which, in contact with water, emit flammable gases

7 — Carriage, stowage and control of temperature to prevent decomposition and possible exp\os\on; stowage