Engine Room

Walk me through the checklist your engineers complete before placing the engine room in unmanned (UMS) mode, and show me how periodic rounds are still carried out while the space is unattended.

Show me how the duty engineer call-out system actually works, and demonstrate that the dead-man alarm resets correctly and escalates to the Chief Engineer's cabin if it isn't answered.

Can you show me the Chief Engineer's current standing orders and recent night orders, and prove that every watchkeeping engineer has actually read and signed them?

How does the company identify which engine room machinery is 'critical equipment,' and what evidence proves each item on that list is tested at the defined interval?

What records prove that every engine room alarm point in the machinery monitoring system is function-tested at a defined interval, not just checked when something trips on its own?

Show me your current alarm inhibit or override list — how do you control and justify any alarm that's been silenced, inhibited, or left in a standing, unacknowledged condition?

Can you demonstrate the remote emergency stops for the ventilation fans, fuel oil transfer pumps, and fuel quick-closing valves from outside the engine room, and show me when they were last tested?

Rather than just showing me the fire damper indicator panel, can you go and physically close and reopen one of the engine room ventilation fire dampers so I can see it actually moves?

Take me down to the engine room bilges — are they clean and dry, and can your duty engineer explain exactly how each bilge well is pumped out, including which valves are used and how it's recorded?

How often are the engine room high-level bilge alarms function-tested, and can you show me the record for the last test on each bilge well?

Let's inspect the purifier room together — how does the current housekeeping and leak condition compare to your last internal audit finding, and what's the fire-fighting arrangement specific to this space?

Show me the test records for the fuel and lube oil tank quick-closing valves, and demonstrate that the remote closing wire or hydraulic release actually shuts each valve from its control position.

Walk me through a fuel or lube oil transfer from start to finish — how do you prevent tank overflow, and what condition are the tank vent heads and save-alls in right now?

Where and how are oily rags and used absorbent materials stored between generation and disposal, and how do you keep that from becoming a fire risk in the engine room?

How do you confirm that exhaust manifolds, turbocharger casings, and other hot surfaces in the engine room stay below the ignition-risk temperature threshold, and what inspection or thermography regime backs that up?

Show me how the fuel and lube oil pipe joints and flanges near hot surfaces are protected against spray in the event of a leak — where are the screened flanges and jacketed sections, and are they all intact?

Can you show me the engine room leak register, and confirm there isn't a single soft patch, clamp, or temporary repair currently in service on a fuel or lube oil pipe?

As we walk the engine room, are the tank tops, bilges, and machinery lagging genuinely free of oil accumulation, and are the save-alls and drip trays under the purifiers, pumps, and separators empty, clean, and properly plugged?

Can you demonstrate a safe incinerator start-up and shutdown, and show me what waste streams your crew are actually permitted to burn under the Garbage Management Plan and MARPOL restrictions?

Show me the boiler water test results and chemical treatment dosing records for the past several weeks — how do you know the treatment program is actually keeping the boiler within the manufacturer's water quality limits?

Walk me through how and when the boiler's flame failure device, low-water level trip, and high-pressure safety trip are each tested, and show me the record for the last time every one of them actually operated.

How often is the boiler gauge glass blown down, and can you demonstrate the correct sequence so I can confirm the crew isn't standing in the line of fire while doing it?

If the running auxiliary generator tripped right now, what's actually configured to happen — is a standby genuinely ready to auto-start and pick up load, and how is load-sharing managed if two are running together?

Show me the relief valve test records for the main and starting air receivers, and demonstrate the automatic and manual drain routine that keeps condensate from accumulating in the system.

For a crankcase entry after a shutdown, or entry into a scavenge space or cofferdam, walk me through your actual gas-freeing, cooling, and permit process before anyone goes inside.

Show me both escape routes out of the engine room from where we're standing right now, confirm the emergency lighting works along each one, and point out the nearest EEBD.

What's the inspection and load-test status of the engine room overhead crane and the chain blocks you'd actually use to lift a piston or cylinder head?

Let's check the steering gear room — is it clean and the hydraulic oil reserve visibly adequate, how do you communicate with the bridge from there, and where are the emergency steering instructions posted?

Show me where engine room chemicals like boiler treatment, cleaning agents, and test reagents are stored — how are they segregated, where are the Safety Data Sheets, and is there an eyewash station within reach?

Beyond the standard monthly fire and abandon-ship drills, what engine-room-specific scenarios have you actually drilled — a purifier room fire, a scavenge space fire, and a full blackout recovery — and what did the crew learn from each?