Recommendation Date
Recipient Name
MSA
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Review the system for determining the eligibility of candidates for maritime qualifications.
Reply Text
Whilst MSA would concur that the actions or inactions of the duty engineer were inappropriate, we do not support a review of a system for determining the eligibility of candidates for maritime qualifications based on what are, in effect, clerical errors in this candidate's application. With regard to processing of the duty engineer's application, the significant issue was that each of the assignments required by the duty engineer to complete his training before sitting for the MEC3 examination had been signed as completed, by the Chief Engineer. Hence, there was a check that the engineer had been instructed on these issues. That the engineer did not utilise this training, or perhaps had not appreciated his duties, is a separate issue.
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