Comp 16
Engineering Watch Quiz
Test your knowledge and skills in managing an engineering watch with our comprehensive quiz designed for maritime professionals. This quiz covers essential topics to ensure safety and effective teamwork on board.
- 52 carefully crafted questions
- Focus on human relations, risk management, and situational awareness
- Perfect for seafarers aspiring to improve their knowledge
As an officer of an engineering watch what would be the best thing to do if chief engineer does not or cannot take the leadership?
Take control for everything in the as the master cannot do his job
Take action to start the process to solve the situation but do it diplomatically
Take control delegate some of the task to the master
Take action to solve the problem in anyways
What do you call this conscious analysis development and pre-determination of courses of action to be taken in order to achieve desired results ?
Using fuel from tanks on the port side only
Using water from the fore peak tank
Burning fuel from a centerline tank
Using water from two equally sized tanks
Ergonomics focus is on the design of work activity that suits the person in that takes account of their capabilities and :
Emotion
Limitation
Incapacity
None on the stated options
What are the key factors to good human relations ?
Functions of management
Let the crew plan for their own work and expect good result
Treat people as individuals
Management system
Because the maritime industry organization the technology the working practices the regulatory environment and other factors are constantly changing the management of risk must be _____.
Continual and flexible
Always revised
Expanded and explained
Permanently adhered t0
What kind of teaching learning principle where the trainee must proceed step by step and each step must be in some way more difficult than the previous step
Graduated sequence
Perceived purpose
Affective objective
Anallysing evaluating
What kind of person ha the ability to respect and exert own rights without denying the rights and personal bounderies of other?
Versatile
Leader
Assertive
Confident
What is defined as a person positive, negative or neutral view of another person, object or event but which can also change over time due to age or environmental conditions?
Satisfaction
Mood
Attitude
Impression
What is described as being aware of what is happening around and understanding what that information means now and in the future?
Multi-tasking
Prioritization
Situational awareness
Leadership
The engine room is highly equipped with sophisticated electrical, electronics, pneumatic, and hydraulic equipment but are all significant resources for maintaining a safe engineering watch. Reference to these, what should all engineers be aware of once they are on board?
Automation and manual control change over
Whom to call in case of any malfunction
Emergency station bill
Disabling of any alarm conditions
Providing a new crew with the information needed in order to function comfortably in the ship is called__.
Inauguration
Orientation
Acquaintance
Familiarization
If a vessel making voyage more than 48 hours long, regulation require that ___.
The entire steering gear be tested within 12 hours prior to departure
Fire pumps be tested by starting within 12 hours prior to departure
The emergency generator and lighting system be tested by starting and operating within 12 hours prior to departure
A lifeboat drill be held within 12 hours prior to departure
What best benefits is achieved in collaborating with your colleagues in the engine room while solving problmes;
Working on a problem with all team member can identify who can or cannot contribute a solution
Other members of the team can learn more from senor engineer
Senior member of the team can learn from the more theoretically knowledgeable junior engineer
The team can brainstorm a solution or better way of doing things
When manager and employees define goals for every department. Project and person and use them to monitor performance the mathed is called ?
Management system
Maslow heiracrchy of need
Management by objectives
Function of management
The ship and crew must be protected against hazard of the cargo as required by law. Name
Improper slings
No proper lighting
Provide temporarily guard railings
Absence of watch keeper
What is the method of finding out and recording the levels of the risk, with the aim of minimizing accident, damage and ill health on board ship?
Controlling
Assessment
Elimination
Mitigation
The chance that someone or something will be adversely affected in a stipulated way by the hazard or can be understood as the product of the consequence of an event and its probability of occurring or the chance of the hazard causing harm or damage is called_____.
Risk
Near miss
Consequence
Accident
Good housekeeping on a vessel prevents fire by ?
Eliminating potential fuel sources
Eliminating trip hazard
Improving personnel qualifications
Allowing better access in an emergency
The function which is more important in the accomplishment of objectives is ____.
Coordination
Teamwork
Partnership
Planning
What do you include that OOW`s situational awareness will be improved by both the structured management of the team and his own self-discipline ensuring that he keeps a good professional watch?
Time management
Look out
Helmsman
GMDSS radio certificate
What refers to establishing objectives and processes necessary to deliver results in accordance with customer requirements and the organizations and the organizations policies?
Doing
Acting
Planning
Checking
A termed and it will be the position where the ship enters water so narrow that there is no room to turn or where it is not possible to retrace the tract due to falling tide and insufficient under keel clearance (UKC)
Contingency plan
Abortpoint
Point of no return
Waypoint
Specific acts of an individual or organization that either directly or indirectly cause an incident is called_____.
Human misinterpretation
Human planning
Human error
Human factor
The person in charge on the vessel and the person in charge at the facility must hold a meeting before starting the transfer of oil. Who must decide to start the transfer?
The person in charge on the vessel
The person in charge at the facility
The person in charge of either place that is doing the pumping
Both persons in charge
The chance that someone or something will be adversely affected in a stipulated way by the hazard or can be understood as the product of the consequence of an event and its probability of occurring or the chance of hazard causing harm or damage is called?
Accident
Near miss
Consequence
Risk
What needs to be balanced in order to ensure a safe and effective task completion in the engine room and to avoid frustration, tension, bad temper, and errors?
Hours of work arrangements
Number of staff on a job
Workloads
Watchkeeping duties
Is the interaction required within the team for such a systems to work and does not refer to an act of management by one person but to continuous acceptance and understanding that they have to fulfill the roles to which they have been assigned
Morale
Briefing
Training
Team management
A seaman desert the vessel in a foreign port what should the master do with any of the deserter`s personal effects remaining on board
Inventory them, make an appropriate entry in the official logbook and dispose of them at sea
Transfer them to the appropriate port at the end of the voyage
Sell them at auction
Donate them to local charity
What is defined as the physiological process which impels the members of the team to give their loyalty to the group and to accept to play an important part in the task that the group is reforming?
Attitude
Commitment
Contentment
Motivation
Which party must ensure that legal work hour limitations (both officers and crew members) rest periods and regulations governing work on sunday and holidays are followed the vessel is in a safe harbor ?
The owner of the vessel
The company operating the vessel
The company chartering the vessel
The master of the vessel
When a vessel violates the oil pollution laws, who may be held responsible ?
Any individual connected with the vessel involved in the operation
Licensed officers only
Owners only
Master only
Emotional thoughts and behavioral patterns of individual which are consistent over a time period is defined as?
Traits
Leadership
Assertiveness
Personality
Welding and burning are among the factors which give the highest risk of fire on board ships. Precaution has to be taken to avoid this risk. Which of the following safety rules may be regarded as the most important '?
Electric welding plants shall be controlled by a responsible engineer before use
The welder shall have been instructed in the use of the ships welding plant
Only use electrodes from a well known manufacturer
Only holder of welding certificate
Which among the followers mentioned is best suited to work on board ship ?
Skill and knowledgeable but unwilling persons
Able but unwilling or insecure persons
Able and willing person
Unable but willing
Before the seas get rough it is good safety practice to?
Move quickly about the ship
Shutdown auxiliary equipment
Increase all engine space lighting
Make a visual inspection of all engine spaces and secure loose gear
What do you call a person ashore having a direct access to the highest level of management?
Person in charge
Safety and quality management officer
Designated person
Owner representative
Is the interaction required within the team for such a system to work and does not refer to an act of management by one person but to a continues acceptance and understanding that they have to fulfill the roles to which they have been assigned ?
Briefing
Training
Morale
Team management
Any crew member on board ship not assigned to emergency teams would prepare survival craft, render first aid and assistance, assemble passengers if applicable and___.
Always assist the master what he orders
Bring extra porvisions
Generally assist the emergency parties as directed
Bring extra blankets
A leader possessing planning skills should:
Enable to scrutinize and evaluate situation and come out
Employ constant brainstorming sessions with his workforce and include them in planning stages
In a good communication practice on board how important are challenges and responses to team members?
In order to teach those staff who are less experienced
To show that management level engineer are knowledgeable than the rest
In order to come up with the quickest solution to problems
In order to clear any doubts on everyone
What kind of people are open to negotiating any proposition without insisting on their version while expressing their feeling thoughts and opinions confidently?
Friendly people
Authoritative people
Confident people
Assertive people
A certificate of financial responsibility attests that the vessel
Has financial backing to meet any liability resulting from the discharge of oil
Will assume the responsibility for any damage
Has the minimum required amount of P&I
Has financial reserves to meet reasonable expected crew cost of an intended voyage
The people chosen to undertake risk assessments onboard should be those most familiar with the area and
The staff with the longest stint on board
The most junior officer
Who have most experience of the task
the vessel safety officer
When crew is given responsibility for dealing with a problem he has increased in__.
Patience
Sef-esteem
Body structure
Pride
What is a phenomenon that affects decision-making process and judgement by some forms that people make?
Mood
Cognitive bias
Ships various issues
Domestic problems
After an item of required safety equipment on a towing vessel fails, the owner or master must consider all of these factor before continuing the voyage except the___.
Dictates a good seamanship
Safety of the vessel
Estimated time of arrival promised to the customer
Weather conditions including visibility
Survival practice in the mooring system is to slack of the tension on the leeward side and ____.
Deballast the unit to transit draft
Release the anchors on the winward side
Adjust as evenly as practical the windward tensions
Tighten the anchor bouys on the leeward side anchors
What is this term called that will occur similarly to that of not complying with the passage plan like proceeding in the wrong lane of a traffic separation scheme
Option 4 : ambiguity
Option 2: improper con or lookout
Option 3 : distraction
Option 4 : procedural violation
When manager and employees define goal for every department, project and person and use them to monitor performance the method is called ?
Management by objectives
Maslow hierarchy
Management system
Function of management
A type of management where shipping business concept having many ships moving at seas and port of the world mainly to avoid losses and maximize earning profits
Liability management
Personnel management
Asset management
Self management
Personnel as resources in the engine department are required to have competency to manage and utilize other personnel as well as ___.
An appropriate qualification for performing the task
Expecting personnel on completing a task on time and always with perfect result
Able to command and require exact completion
Able to impose disciplinary action
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