6.3.1 Engine-room layout, design and arrangement
should provide a work environment that fosters effective procedures,
work patterns, and personnel safety and health, and that minimizes
factors which degrade human performance or increase the potential
for error.
6.3.2 To standardize engine-room consoles and
panels, the layout, design and arrangement of controls, instruments
and alarms should take into consideration a recognized, international
human engineering standard with regard to, at least, placement, shape,
display, labelling, complexity, and control movement expectancy.
6.3.3 For shipboard spare parts, arrangements
should be made, where practicable, for the storage of spare parts
and supplies contiguous to the machinery or equipment for which they
are intended.
6.3.4 For shipboard spare parts, an effective
transportation and parts handling system should be incorporated into
the engine-room design. The transportation and parts handling system
should be designed to handle heavy machinery parts efficiently and
safely and operate under the same conditions of static list, rolling,
and pitching as the main propulsion machinery.
6.3.5 Sufficient space around machinery should
be ensured so that maintenance, repair and housekeeping tasks can
be performed efficiently with no unnecessary restrictions or risk
of injury from contact with hot surfaces or rotating machinery.
6.3.6 A noise-protected communication station
should be installed in the general area that most maintenance and
watchkeeping activities take place, such as the engine-room lower
level or pump flat, and outside the control room, when a control room
is provided.
6.3.7 The layout, design and arrangement of machinery
and work areas in engine-rooms should be such that the engine-room
can be conveniently cleaned.
6.3.8 A supply of the tools necessary for expected
tasks of personnel working in the engine-room should be maintained
in a location that minimizes the distance a loaded tool box is likely
to need transporting and, as much as possible, avoids the necessity
of carrying tools up or down ladders.
6.3.9 A supply of consumables, such as light bulbs,
flashlights, batteries, aural protection, protective goggles, disposable
work clothes, gloves, rags, cups, logbooks, pens and pencils, should
be maintained in the engine-room for the use of personnel working
in the engine-room.
6.3.10 Engine-rooms should be provided with the
type of amenities typically required by the personnel working in the
engine-room during the course of their watch or duties, given the
nature of the ship and the voyage, such as a changing area and toilet
facilities.