Required Knowledge: |
Alarm panels |
Auxiliary systems, materials and construction |
Causes of deck machinery faults |
Characteristics of auxiliary machinery systems |
Closing devices and remote shut offs |
Dangers associated with operating shipboard auxiliary machinery systems and related hazard prevention strategies |
Drive systems, belts, clutches and motors |
Electro-hydraulic steering gear |
Emergency operation in electrical or hydraulic failure |
Emergency shut offs and closures |
Fire detection and fire alarm systems |
Fixed firefighting installations including CO2, foam and water mist |
Function of: grease lubricating oil |
Hydraulic systems including steering gear |
Identification of: refrigeration system components faults in refrigeration systems |
Instrumentation used |
Methods for controlling and managing operation of shipboard auxiliary machinery systems |
Operation of deck machinery |
Problems associated with auxiliary machinery systems, and appropriate preventative and remedial action and solutions |
Procedures for monitoring and evaluating performance of auxiliary machinery systems |
Pumps and pumping systems for bilge, fire, fuel oil, freshwater and seawater systems |
Refrigeration: cycle plant and its operation |
Relevant work health and safety (WHS)/occupational health and safety (OHS) legislation and policies |
Relevant sections of commonwealth, state and territory maritime regulations, National Standard for Commercial Vessels (NSCV) |
Requirements for waste management and pollution control under the MARPOL Convention from auxiliary machinery systems |
Rudder and stock support bearings, glands, packing and seals |
Rudder construction and rudder types |
Safe: operation practices working procedures |
Safeguards and protective devices for deck machinery |
Simple hydraulic circuits |
Strainers, mud-boxes and foot valves |
Terminology of materials technology |
Types of: fixed firefighting systems including gas and foam flooding systems pumps and associated safety devices refrigerant |
Winches and windlass |