3. Approval of Engineering Training Record Book

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3.1 General

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 the applicants.

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

3.2 Approval process

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 B, Place De Ville,
112 Kent St, 4th Floor,
Ottawa, Ontario
K1A 0N5.
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, the local Transport Canada Examination Centres advised and this TP amended accordingly.

3.3 Training record book required elements

Each training record book is to contain the following elements that are integral to the safe operation of the engineering watch, and shall be arranged to clearly indicate competencies in the following areas:

1. shipboard familiarisation;
2. preparing main machinery and auxiliary equipment for sea;
3. shutting down main machinery;
4. manoeuvring main machinery;
5. preparing, starting, coupling and changing over generators;
6. transferring fuel;
7. preparing and operating evaporators and distillation plants;
8. operating oily water separators and conducting appropriate tests to ensure the correct operation of those separators, prevention of environmental pollution responsibilities;
9. preparing and operating air compressors;
10. preparing and starting steering gear and conducting appropriate tests to ensure the correct operation of the steering gear;
11. testing boiler water-level gauges under normal working conditions;
12. operating boilers, including the combustion system;
13. transferring ballast and fresh water;
14. lubricating machinery;
15. pumping bilges;
16. taking machinery readings and compiling the data in the machinery space log books;.
17. acting as assistant watchkeeper at sea;
18. maintaining a safe engineering watch, including “taking over”, “accepting”, “routine duties” and “handing over a watch”;
19. the safety requirements for working on electrical systems;
20. the maintenance and repair to plant and equipment;
21. a general knowledge of the principal structural members of the ship and the proper names for the various parts;
22. 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, there is included with this TP a Model Training Record Book for Applicants to the Fourth-Class Engineer Certificate - see annex “A”.

3.4 Approved training record books

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 relating to the fourth-class engineer Training Record Book.

1. Model Training Record Book for Applicants to the Fourth-Class Engineer Certificate, TP 13721, Annex A.
2. Canadian Coast Guard Ships' Crew OJT Manual (DFO/5559), First Edition, September 1998. (Applicants must have successfully completed chapters 3, 4 and ;6)
3. British Columbia Ferry Corporation Watchkeeping Engineer Training Record Book, First Edition, 2001.
4. Training manual from the International Shipping Federation.

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