The Examination of Surveyable Machinery Items by Chief Engineers Version

1. Introduction
1.1 This document describes how items of machinery may be credited for survey based on examinations by the ship’s Chief Engineer.

1.2 The arrangement is only applicable to ships operating on a continuous survey machinery (CSM) cycle and the procedures to be applied depend on whether or not the ship is operating an approved planned maintenance scheme for machinery.

1.3 The arrangements described in this document do not apply to the ship Operator’s superintendents.

2. Ships operating an approved Machinery Planned Maintenance Scheme (MPMS)
2.1 Chief Engineers on ships assigned the ShipRight descriptive note MPMS may carry out examinations of selected machinery items to an approved schedule over a five year period corresponding to the existing classification cycles.

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