Critical Equipment

Question 1

What is critical equipment?

Answer 1

Critical equipment refers to machinery, systems, or components onboard a ship or marine vessel that are essential for the safety, operation, and seaworthiness of the vessel.

Critical equipment are items that we have no redundancy for. This can be found in the vessels SMS, our onboard server and our PMS System.

Question 2

List the critical equipment listed on your vessel?

Answer 2

Onboard Moon Sand our critical equipment are our;
- Telescopic mast
- Watertight Doors
- Emergency Generator
- SOLAS Rescue Tender
- Hi Fog
- Fire dampers
- Rescue Boat Crane

Question 3

Where is your critical equipment listed?

Answer 3

This can be found in the vessels SMS, our onboard server and our PMS System.

Question 4

What is covered in chapter 10 of the SMS?

Answer 4

Maintenance
- Maintenance Policies and Procedures
- Maintenance Planning
- Maintenance Records
- Defect Reporting and Rectification
- Spare Parts Management
- Training and Competence
- Audits and Reviews

Question 5

When would you not sail?

Answer 5

If anything on my critical equipment is out for maintenance due to a breakdown or general maintenance

Question 6

Defective critical equipment, would you sail? Single failure criteria and 100% redundancy?

Answer 6

No, we are not allowed to sail if we have defected critical equipment.