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available to appropriate members of the navigational watch;

9) Communications among members of the navigational watch should be clear, immediate, reliable, and relevant to the business at hand;

10) Non-essential activity and distractions should be avoided, suppressed or removed;

11) All bridge equipment should be operating properly and if not, the officer in charge of the navigational watch should take into account any malfunction which may exist in making operational decisions;

12) All essential information should be collected, processed and interpreted, and made conveniently available to those who require it for the performance of their duties;

13) Non-essential materials should not be placed on the bridge or any work surface; and

14) Members of the navigational watch should at all times be prepared to respond efficiently and effectively to changes in circumstances.

Part 3.2

Guidance on keeping an engineering watch

6 — Particular guidance may be necessary for special types of propulsion systems or ancillary equipment and for ships carrying hazardous, dangerous, toxic or highly flammable materials or other special types of cargo. The chief engineer officer should provide this operational guidance as appropriate.

7 — It is essential that officers in charge of the engineering watch appreciate that the efficient performance of engineering watchkeeping duties is necessary in the interest of the safety of life and property at sea and of preventing pollution of the marine environment.

8 — The relieving officer, before assuming charge of the engineering watch, should:

1) Be familiar with the location and use of the equipment provided for the safety of life in a hazardous or toxic environment;

2) Ascertain that materials for the administrations of emergency medical first aid are readily available, particularly those required for the treatment of burns and scalds; and

3) When in port, safely anchored or moored, be aware

of.

3.1) Cargo activities, the status of maintenance and repair functions and all other operations affecting the watch; and

3.2) The auxiliary machinery in use for passenger or crew accommodation services, cargo operations, operational water supplies and exhaust systems.

Part 3.3 Guidance on keeping a radio watch General

9 — Among other things, the Radio Regulations require that each ship radio station is licensed, is under the ultimate authority of the master or other person responsible for the ship and is only operated under the control of adequately qualified personnel. The Radio Regulations also require that a distress alert shall only be sent on the authority of the master or other person responsible foT the ship.

10 — The master should bear in mind that all personnel assigned responsibility for sending a distress alert must be instructed with regard to, be knowledgeable of, and be able to operate properly, all radio equipment on the ship as required by regulation 1/14, subparagraph 1.4). This Should be recorded in the deck or radio log-book.

Watchkeeping

11—In addition to the requirements concerning radiowatchkeeping, the master of every seagoing ship should ensure that:

1) The ship's radio station is adequately manned for the purpose of exchanging general communications — in particular public correspondence, taking into account the contraints imposed by the duties of those authorized to operate it; and

2) The radio equipment provided on board and, where fitted, the reserve sources of energy, are maintained in an efficient working condition.

12 — Necessary instruction and information on use of radio equipment and procedures for distress and safety purposes should be given periodically to all relevant crew members by the person designated in the muster list to have primary responsibility for radiocommunications during distress incidents. This should be recorded in the radio log.

13 — The master of every ship no subject to the SOLAS Convention should require that radiowatchkeeping is adequately maintained as determined by the Administration, taking into account the Radio Regulations.

Operational

14 — Prior to sailing, the radio operator designated as having primary responsibility for radiocommunications during distress incidents should ensure that:

1) All distress and safety radio equipment and the reserve source of energy are in an efficient working condition, and that this is recorded in the radio log;

2) All documents required by international agreement, notices to ship radio stations and additional documents required by the Administration are available and are corrected in accordance with the latest supplements, and that any discrepancy is reported to the master;

3) The radio clock is correctly set against standard time signals;

4) Antennae are correctly positioned, undamaged and properly connected; and

5) To the extent practicable, routine weather and navigational warning messages for the area in which the ship will be navigating are updated together with those for other areas requested by the master, and that such messages are passed to the master.

15 — On sailing and opening the station, the radio operator on watch should:

1) Listen to the appropriate distress frequencies for any possible existing distress situation; and

2) Send a traffic report (name, position and destination, etc.) to the local coast station and any other appropriate coast station from which gênerai communications may be expected.

16 — While the station is open, the radio operator on watch should:

1) Check the radio clock against standard time signals at least once a day;