Muster List & Drills

Muster Lists :

The requirements relating to muster lists apply to ships engaged on international voyages . The Master is responsible for :

        a) Compiling the muster list.

        b) Keeping it up to date.

        c) Ensuring that copies are exhibited in conspicuous places throughout the ship, including the navigating bridge, engine-room and crew accommodation.

       d) Ensure the equitable distribution of persons among the ship’s survival craft.

The person in charge of the survival craft shall have a list of the survival craft crew and shall see that the crew under his command are acquainted with their duties. In lifeboats the second-in-command shall also have a list of the lifeboat crew.

The muster list must contain details of :

        a) All emergency alarm and signals.

        b) The action to be taken by the crew and passengers.

        c) Where appropriate, communication equipment, channels and reporting chain to be used during an abandonment or other emergency should be specified.

        d) The means by which the order to abandon ship is to be given.

        e) The duties to be carried out by each member of the ship’s complement in an emergency. Such duties include:

               1) The preparation, swinging out or deploying of survival craft and other life-saving appliances,

               2) The closing of watertight and fire doors, and all other openings such as skylights, portholes and side scuttles and any openings in the hull.

               3) Duties in connection with fire-fighting, the use of communication equipment and the equipping of survival craft.

        f) Persons assigned for survival craft or launching station.

        g) This provision of substitutes must be shown on the muster list and may be a detailed list or in the form of a general statement such as “Should key persons become disabled, those next in line, as appropriate, should take their place”.

        h) The muster list must show the name or rank of the officers whose duty is to ensure that the life-saving and fire-fighting appliances are maintained in a condition to be always ready for use.

Drills to be carried out as per following table :

Interval	1 month	2 month	3 month	4 month
Drill	Abandon ship	Enclosed space	Rescue boat	Davit Launched Life-raft Training
	Fire drill		Steering Gear
	Chemical / Oil Spill		Search & rescue
			Security