Handover, Takeover & Your Role as Chief Mate Flashcards

Handover & Takeover Procedure, as well as your roles as a Chief Mate (Safety, Security, Environment, Crew Manager etc.)

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List the Handover & Takeover Procedure as a Chief Mate…

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  • Safety Management - SMS Usage
  • Certification and Documentation
  • Personnel - Suitable Manning
  • Emergency Preparedness - Drills
  • Shipboard Operations - Cargo Ops and Ballast Ops
  • Inspection and Maintenance - PMS and Surveys (Outstanding Issues)
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What certificates and documents would you expect to takeover from the reliving Chief Officer?

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  • Crew Overtime Records
  • Hours of Rest & Working Hours Records
  • Approved manuals - Stability booklet, IGS, COW, cargo securing manuals, ORB part I & II (if tanker), cargo record book, register lifting appliances & handling gear, approval of loadicator (type & test condition), previous mooring plans, as per MEG4
  • Loadicator test results
  • Loadicator arr & dep of every port
  • Gas instrument servicing
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What are your responsibilities as a Chief Officer?

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  • Assist Master implementing Safety & Environmental Protection Policy
  • SMS understood and applied
  • Follow systems of work (permits, risk assessments etc.)
  • Calculate stability arr & dep & conditions
  • Vessel meets flag requirements
  • PMS established
  • Training of crew
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What are your roles as a Chief Officer?

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  • Safety Officer
  • Security Officer
  • Environmental Officer
  • Stability Officer
  • Cargo Management
  • Crew Management
  • Maintenance (Deck)
  • Purchasing
  • Compliance
  • Safe Navigational Watch
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What are your duties as a Safety Officer?

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  • Compliance of the SMS
  • Safety inspections of the vessel
  • Reporting deficiencies & non-conformities
  • Increasing awareness of safety to crew
  • Act on crew safety concerns
  • Maintain records of accidents, training
  • Training of crew
  • Report and liase to Master anything to related to safety of the ship and crew
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What UK Legilsation states the roles of the Safety Officer?

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Merchant Shipping (Health & Safety at Work) Regulations 1997

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What are your duties as a Security Officer?

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  • Reporting to the Master & CSO
  • Ship & crew operate according to SSP
  • Maintain security at all times
  • Train crew with security related duties
  • Contact with PFSO at port facilities
  • Liaise anything to the PFSO that could risk the vessel
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Where would find your responsibilities as a Chief Officer?

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SMS (duties, responsibilities)

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As a Safety Officer, how would you and the Master implement safety on board?

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From the Health & Safety Act 1997 & company SMS procedures:
- AWARENESS: induction, training, record keeping
- IMPLEMENTATION: risk assessments, procedures, safe systems of work (PTW, tool-box talks)
- REVIEW: investigations, meetings, committee

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What are the principles to ensure health & safety on board?

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  • Avoidance of taking risks
  • Evaluate unavoidable risks
  • Adopt safe systems of work
  • Provide updated & relevant information to crew
  • Constantly update and improve procedures
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When must a safety officer be appointed on UK vessels?

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Any merchant vessel (not fishing) carrying 5 or more seafarers
Not advisable to be either Master or Medical Officer

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12
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When must you have a safety committee onboard and who should be part of it?

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Any merchant vessel carrying 5 or more seafarers
Should include Master, Safety Officer and any other persons elected covering all departments

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13
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What documents would a Deck Officer need to have before taking duties?

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  • Passport
  • Visas
  • Vaccines
  • Discharge Book
  • CoC or CEC with CRA (Confirmation of Receipt of Application)
  • GOC
  • Medical (ENG1)
  • Basic STCW (Survival Techniques, PSSR, First Aid, Fire, Security Awareness / Security Duties)
  • Advanced STCW (Medical First Aid, Fire Fighting, PSC & RB, Radar & ARPA Management, ECDIS (generic & type specific))
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What documents would a Engineer Officer need to have before taking duties?

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  • Passport
  • Visas
  • Vaccines
  • Discharge Book
  • CoC OR CEC with a CRA (Confirmation of Receipt of Application)
  • Medical (ENG1)
  • Basic STCW (Survival Techniques, PSSR, First Aid, Fire, Security Awareness / Security Duties)
  • Advanced STCW (Medical First Aid, Fire Fighting, PSC & RB, High Voltage training)
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What documents would a Deck Rating (AB, Nav Watch Rating, Rating) need to have before taking duties?

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  • Passport
  • Visas
  • Vaccines
  • Discharge Book
  • EDH
  • AB Certificate
  • Nav Watch Rating Certificate
  • Medical (ENG1)
  • Basic STCW (Survival Techniques, PSSR, First Aid, Fire, Security Awareness / Security Duties, PSC & RB)
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16
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What documents would a Engine Rating (Motorman, Fitter, GP1) need to have before taking duties?

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  • Passport
  • Visas
  • Vaccines
  • Discharge Book
  • Certificate of Proficiency Able Seafarer (Engine Room)
  • Certificate of Proficiency Watch Rating (Engine Room)
  • Certificate of Proficiency Electro Technical Rating (Engine Room)
  • Medical (ENG1)
  • Basic STCW (Survival Techniques, PSSR, First Aid, Fire, Security Awareness / Security Duties, PSC & RB)
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What documents would a Ship’s Cook need to have before taking duties?

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  • Passport
  • Visas
  • Vaccines
  • Discharge Book
  • Ships Cook Certificate
  • Medical (ENG1)
  • Basic STCW (Survival Techniques, PSSR, First Aid, Fire, Security Awareness / Security Duties, PSC & RB)
  • Food Safety in Catering
  • Cultural and Religious Catering Requirements
  • Dietary Requirements of Shift Workers