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Only those manuals that have received Marine Safety approval and are listed by Marine Safety Headquarters as having met the requirements of both the STCW Code and the Marine Certification Regulations may be submitted by candidates applying for engineering certificates.

Organisations that may wish to create and/or have approved, a training record book that, when presented to Marine Safety, demonstrates the candidates required competence during this minimum 6 month service, should contact the Manager, Engineering Certification, Marine Personnel Standards and Pilotage, Marine Safety, Ottawa.

General

Organisations wishing to create and/or have approved, a training record book that can be used by their employees or the marine industry in general should contact: The Manager, Engineering Certification, Marine Personnel Standards and Pilotage, Marine Safety, Transport Canada, Tower C, Place De Ville, 330 Sparks St, 10^th Floor, Ottawa, Ontario. K1A 0N8.
Tel: 1-613-998-0640

Advice can be sought from the Manager, Engineering Certification concerning the approval process.

The process normally requires the submission of two original copies of the manual, together with any documentation required.

The manual and any documentation will be reviewed by the Engineering section.

Formal approval or recommended changes will be communicated to the organisation concerned, with any conditions or recommendations that the Manager, Engineering Certification may wish to make.

Approved Training Record Books will be added to the approved list, and the local Transport Canada Examination Centres advised. TP (13721) will be amended accordingly.

Each model training record book is to contain the following elements that are integral to the safe operation of the engineering watch:

The training record book shall be arranged to clearly indicate competencies in the following areas:

shipboard familiarisation;

preparing main machinery and auxiliary equipment for sea;

shutting down main machinery;

manoeuvering main machinery;

preparing, starting, coupling and changing over alternators and generators;

transferring fuel;

preparing and operating evaporators and distillation plants;

operating oily water separators and conducting appropriate tests to ensure the correct operation of those separators, prevention of environmental pollution responsibilities;

preparing and operating air compressors;

preparing and starting steering gear and conducting appropriate tests to ensure the correct operation of the steering gear;

testing boiler water-level gauges under normal working conditions;

operating boilers, including the combustion system;

transferring ballast and fresh water;

lubricating machinery;

pumping bilges;

taking machinery readings and compiling the data in the machinery space log books;.

acting as assistant watchkeeper at sea;

maintaining a safe engineering watch, including "taking over", "accepting", "routine duties" and "handing over a watch";

the safety requirements for working on electrical systems;

the maintenance and repair to plant and equipment;

a general knowledge of the principal structural members of the ship and the proper names for the various parts;

a general knowledge of vessel watertight integrity and the actions to be taken in the event of the partial loss of intact buoyancy.

In addition to the above required elements, the record book shall be so constructed to allow sign off by either the Chief Engineer, Master or company training officer.

In order to aid organisations that may wish to create or modify a training record book, for use as a "Watchkeeping Engineer Training Record Book", there is included with this TP, a "Marine Safety, Model Training Record Book for Candidates for Certification as Officer in Charge of an Engineering Watch"- see annex "A".

The following training manuals have been approved (by the Manager, Engineering Certification) as meeting the requirements of the STCW Code and the Marine Certification Regulations as they relate to the requirements for a Watchkeeping Engineer, Training Record Book.

Marine Safety, Model Training Record Book for Candidates for Certification as an Officer in Charge of an Engineering Watch, TP 13721 Annex A.

Canadian Coast Guard Ships’ Crew OJT Manual (DFO/5559) First Edition - September 1998. Note: Candidates are to have successfully completed Chapters 3, 4 and 6.

British Columbia Ferry Corporation Watchkeeping Engineer Training Record Book, First Edition, 2001.

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