This course provides training for officers and ratings. It comprises a basic training programme appropriate to their duties, including oil and chemical tanker safety, fire safety measures and systems, pollution prevention, operational practice and obligations under applicable laws and regulations. The course takes full account of section A-V/l-l of the STCW 1978 Convention as amended.
This training may be given on board or ashore. It can be supplemented by practical training on board or wherever possible on simulators in training institutions or in a suitable shore-based installation. This Training Course complies with the Safety Requirements of the Maritime (Fiji Small Craft Code) Regulations 2014.

•	Be not less than 18 years of Age at the time of enrolling. 
•	No academic qualification is required as it is purely competent based training.
•	The candidate shall provide sponsor letter from the employer.
•	PCMS reserves the right to request a registered medical practitioners’ certificate, in case the trainers deem the         participant to be medically unfit to   participate in the exercises.