Engine Room Watch Keeping Duties At Sea And In Port Training

Learning Outcomes

• Apply standard watch keeping procedures to ensure continuous monitoring of engine room machinery and systems.
• Demonstrate correct responses to alarms and abnormal conditions, including fire, flooding, and machinery failures.
• Analyze engine room parameters such as temperatures, pressures, and fluid levels to detect deviations and take corrective action.
• Implement communication protocols with the bridge and engineering team during watch handovers and emergencies.
• Evaluate the condition of auxiliary machinery and main propulsion systems to maintain operational readiness.
• Design a watch keeping schedule that ensures adequate rest and compliance with maritime labor standards.

Target Audience

This training is designed for junior marine engineers, engine room ratings, and cadets who are required to stand watch in the engine room of merchant vessels or offshore installations.

Prerequisites

None — open enrollment.

Course Outline

Practicals

Overview

The practicals are integral to this course, allowing learners to apply theoretical knowledge in a supervised engine room environment. Hands-on sessions cover watch keeping rounds, machinery operation, emergency response, and maintenance tasks, ensuring competence and confidence.

Practical Activities

• Watch Keeping Rounds and Log Keeping — Learners perform supervised watch keeping rounds in a simulated engine room, taking readings from gauges and recording data in logbooks. (8h)
• Main Engine and Auxiliary Machinery Operation — Learners operate main engine controls, start and stop generators, manage boiler operations, and respond to simulated alarms. (12h)
• Emergency Response Drills — Learners participate in fire, flooding, and blackout drills in the engine room, using actual firefighting and emergency equipment. (8h)
• Routine Maintenance and Repair Tasks — Learners perform routine maintenance such as filter cleaning, oil sampling, and basic repairs on pumps and valves under supervision. (8h)
• Bunkering and Oily Water Separator Operation — Learners simulate bunkering operations and operate an oily water separator, including monitoring and record keeping. (4h)

Summatives

Each delegate is assessed continuously throughout the course via daily exercises, scored practical assignments, and a final summative test at the end.

Practical Assignments — 30%

Practical assignments are observed and scored against a rubric during the practical sessions. Each delegate's practical mark is averaged into a single 100% score and contributes 30% to the final total.

Daily Exercises — 20%

Every training day ends with a multiple-choice exercise scored out of 100%. The scores from each daily exercise are averaged across the duration of the course to produce a Daily Average mark, which contributes 20% to the final total.

Final Test — 50%

On the last day a final summative test is written. It is a multiple-choice paper with multiple-answer questions: each question may have more than one correct option, and a single wrong selection on a question marks the entire question wrong — no partial credit. The final test is scored out of 100% and contributes 50% to the overall mark.

Final Total

Component	Out of	Weight
Practical Assignments (rubric-scored)	100%	30%
Daily Average (multiple choice)	100%	20%
Final Test (multi-answer multiple choice)	100%	50%
Final Total	—	100%

All marks are recorded on the AATICD LMS and visible to each learner under their account.

Certificate

How it works

• Certificates are auto-generated on the AATICD LMS as soon as the marks pass the 50% threshold.
• Each certificate is a branded PDF with the delegate's name, the course title, the unit standard ID, NQF level, credits, and the date of issue.
• You can download or print your certificate from your LMS dashboard at any time after issue — there's no reissue fee and no expiry date.
• If you scored under 50% you can sit the final test again at the next scheduled session at no extra cost.

Where to find it

Sign in to the LMS, open your dashboard, and your certificates appear under My Certificates. Each entry has a View / Download button and a print option.

Training Discounts

Group discounts apply automatically — the more delegates you enrol, the greater the saving. Discounts are calculated at 3% per 5 delegates, scaling up to 40% off for 100+ delegates.

Delegates	Discount
5	3% off
10	6% off
15	9% off
20	12% off
25	15% off
30	18% off
50	30% off
75	35% off
100	40% off

3% discount per 5 delegates, up to 40% off for 100+ delegates. Contact us for a custom group quote.