Personal Safety and Social Responsibility (PSSR)

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Under STCW regulation, what must each new crew member do before commencing assigned duties?

Read all posted notices/regulations carefully

Locate his working area and working clothes

Be familiar with safety procedures

Report to the master for signing on the ship's articles

2 / 25

Spaces containing batteries require good ventilation because.

Ventilation avoids co2 build up

Ventilation supplies more oxygen for charging the battery

Less electrolyte is required to maintain the batteries charge

Ventilation avoids flammable gas accumulation

3 / 25

An emergency station list should be displayed on any vessel with more than

1 crew member

3 crew members

10 crew members

4 crew members

4 / 25

The revolving drum of a windlass which is used to handle lines is called a

Gypsy

Dog clutch

Lines drum

Warping drum

5 / 25

Safety equipment is checked by the crew

Only at annual surveys

Not the responsibility of the crew

If it is damaged

Before and during each voyage

6 / 25

What should you do when you hear a ship's emergency signal?

Report to your master station

Telephone the bridge for advice

Put on warm clothes and your life jacket

Ignore the signals unless you have been told there will be a drill

7 / 25

Reporting "near misses" is encouraged under which maritime instrument?

ISM code

SOLAS Chapter-2

All of the above

Code of safe working practices

8 / 25

Which of the following is considered to be the safest protection from static electric discharge, when connecting or disconnecting cargo hoses and metal arms ?

Ship shore bonding cable

Insulating flange or a length of non-conducting hose

None of the above

Switching off ICCP

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A person has fallen overboard and is being picked up with a life boat. If the person appears in danger of drowning, the life boat should make

An approach from leeward

An approach from windward

An approach across the wind

The most direct approach

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Information on safety and hazard control particles and procedures on a vessel is described in

The vessel's log book

Your employment contract

The instructions written on lifebuoys

The vessel's safety management manual

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You are in survival craft broadcasting a distress message. What information would be essential to your rescuers?

The time of day

The nature of distress

Your position by latitude and longitude

Your radio call sign

12 / 25

Distress flares need to be renewed every

Three years from date of manufacture

One year from the manufacture

Seven years from the date of manufacture

Five years from date of manufacture

13 / 25

Where would you find details of your tasks and duties in case of an emergency?

In notices posted in the crew's cabin

In the muster list

In notices posted in mess rooms, recreation rooms, etc

On posters at the life boat station

14 / 25

Immersion suits can be unpacked and donned within

5 minutes

3 minutes

4 minutes

2 minutes

15 / 25

You are standing in the wheel watch when you hear the cry. "man overboard starboard side". You should instinctively

Throw a life ring to mark the spot

Give full left rudder

Put the rudder amidships

Give full right rudder

16 / 25

What is the muster list ?

A list that specifies the details of the emergency alarm, actions to be taken by the crew and specifies how the order to abandon ship will be given

A list which specifies victualling requirements for the forthcoming voyages

A list which specifies the environmental protection and emergency duties of the senior officer onboard ship

A crew list prepared prior to arrival in port giving full details of all the people on board

17 / 25

What bare minimum should be done before working on electrical equipment?

Complete electrical insulation checklist

Switch off the mains and start working

Open the equipment and commence work

None

18 / 25

Your vessel is equipped with totally enclosed lifeboats which statement is TRUE when the boat is enveloped in flames?

The ventilators will automatically close by the action of fusible links

An air tank will provide about 10 min of air for the survivors and the engine

A water spray system to cool the outside of the boat is operated

The motor takes its air supply from outside the life boat to prevent asphyxiation of the crew

19 / 25

A short and a prolonged blast three times over on the ship’s horn indicates 'Abandon ship'

True

False

20 / 25

In heavy seas the helmsman should steer the survival craft.

Broadside to the seas

Into the seas

In a series of figure-eights

In the same direction as the seas

21 / 25

What is the international signal for man overboard ?

Repeated raising and lowering of arms

Three short blasts on the whistle

Three long blasts followed by three short blasts on the whistle

3 long blasts on the whistle

22 / 25

When securing the accommodation for sea, empty lockers don't need to be closed

False

True

23 / 25

What is the remedy to save face from spark generated during welding and grinding?

Face shield

Nose mask

Goggles

Helmets

24 / 25

Which is the life saving signal for, "this is the best place to land"?

Orange smoke signal

Horizontal motion of a flag

Red star rocket

Green star rocket

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You are in survival craft broadcasting a distress message. What information would be essential to your rescuers?

Your radio call sign

The time of day

Your position by latitude and longitude

The nature of distress

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