Grade :- Master’s FG ...........ASM Management level
A. Safety Management
1. Knowledge of SOLAS Chapter IX, Resolution A.741 (18)
B. Port State Control
2. Knowledge of General aspects, Resolution A.787 (19)
C. Survey and certification
3. Knowledge of Details of Certificates required on a passenger, bulk oil, chemical or gas carrier, the convention to which the certificates belong to. Damage control plans. Provision and display of maneuvering Information on board.
D. Fire Protection
4. Knowledge of Fire Application.
Maintenance and ready availability, the control plan, fire drills, fixed fire fighting system, various FFA and its usage.
E. Radio communication
5. Knowledge of Functional requirements, Radio Installations, Radio personnel and Radio records, Avoidance of false distress alerts.
F. Life saving, search and rescue
6. Knowledge of Muster list and emergency instructions, drills, on-board maintenance, Operational readiness. IAMSAR manual. Various LSA and its usage.
G. Safety of Navigation
7. Knowledge of Distress Messages
Obligation and procedures, Manning, Ice Navigation, Collision regulations, Ships reporting system. Navigation in special areas such as straits of Malacca and Singapore, English Channel, Entrances to the Baltic sea. Offshore installation and structuring.
Avoidance of Dangerous situation in following and quartering sea. Aspects of ship handling with or without tugs. Anchoring and berthing vessel under the influence of tide and wnd. Piracy and armed robbery against ships. Slow away. National and international obligation following collision, grounding.Methods of allocating and surveys subsequent to refloating. Abandoning ship, survival procedures, precautions when beaching.
H. Cargoes
Knowledge of provisions for ship carrying liquid chemicals in bulk.Liquid gas in bulk,solid bulk cargoes with chemical properties that may entail hazard` during transport, grain in bulk,carriage of dangerous packaged goods, care of cargo.
Hague rule, Hague-Visby rules,hamburg rules on containerization and mulitimodal transport.
I. Pollution from Ships
Knowledge of provisions of MARPOL 7B/7B.Require for reporting incidents.Evolving dangerous goods, harmful substances or marine pollutants National and international liability for oil pollution International compensation fund.
J. Miscellaneous provisions
Knowledge of safty measures,helicopter operations on ship, national and international provisions on registration of ships .Official logbooks and its maintainance.National provision on shipping casualties,investigation and inquiries, salvage ,LOF 95 ,towage