This course provides training for officers and rating assigned specific duties and responsibilities related to cargo and cargo equipment on oil and chemical tankers. It comprises a familiarization training programme appropriate to their duties and responsibilities, including basic training for oil and chemical tanker safety, fire safety measures, characteristics of tanker cargoes, their associated hazards, pollution prevention, emergency operations, cargo equipment and operations and obligations under applicable law and regulations.

The course is conducted in spacious classroom with modern teaching aids to facilitate comfortable learning and is supplemented by practical exercises in a mock-up facility for fire-fighting and rescue operation demonstration.

Those successfully completing the course will be eligible to carry out assigned specific duties and responsibilities related to cargo or cargo equipment on Oil and Chemical Tankers. The trainee shall:

• Be familiar with the equipment, instrumentation and controls used for cargo handling on an oil and chemical tanker
• Have acquired greater awareness of the need of proper planning and the use of checklists involved in various cargo handling operations
• Have an enhanced awareness to apply proper and safe procedures at all times when carrying out the various operations on board oil and chemical tankers
• Be able to identify operational problems and assist in solving them.
• Follow safety practices and protect the marine environment
• Be able to assist and co-ordinate actions during emergencies

All seafarers that have successfully completed approved Basic Safety Training course.

6 Days / 42 hours, including theoretical and practical sessions.