Section 2 Continuous Survey Machinery
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Clasifications Register Guidance Information - Guidance Notes for Machinery Survey Arrangements including The Examination of Surveyable Machinery Items by Chief Engineers, April 2021 - Chapter 2 Machinery Survey Arrangements - Section 2 Continuous Survey Machinery

Section 2 Continuous Survey Machinery

Parent topic: Chapter 2 Machinery Survey Arrangements

2.1 CSM

2.1.1 Approval for the Complete Survey of the machinery to be carried out on a Continuous Survey basis may be obtained on request.

2.1.2 Machinery items are to be opened for survey in rotation, as far as practicable, to ensure that the interval between consecutive examinations of each item will not exceed five years. In general, approximately one-fifth of the machinery is to be examined each year.

2.1.3 Chief Engineers may not credit machinery items in LR Class Direct.

2.1.4 The Chief Engineer or Operator should arrange for Lloyd’s Register's Surveyors to carry out the machinery surveys at ports where LR is represented.
  1. Machinery items should be opened out for inspection, as requested by the attending Surveyor.
  2. The Chief Engineer’s maintenance and monitoring records should be made available.
  3. The Surveyor will ‘X’ Credit items, subject to examination and testing.
2.1.5 On occasions where it is not practicable for LR to attend, i.e. the ship is at sea or in a port where LR is not represented:
  1. Chief Engineers may carry out the examination of applicable machinery items, in accordance with the requirements of Lloyd’s Register’s Rules and Regulations for the Classification of Ships, July 2022.
  2. The Chief Engineer or Operator should arrange for the attendance of a Surveyor to credit such items at the next port of call where a Surveyor is available.
  3. The Chief Engineer should prepare two signed copies of the Chief Engineer’s Statement of Examination of Surveyable Machinery Items. One copy is to be retained on the ship and the other is to be given to the Surveyor.
  4. The Chief Engineer’s maintenance and monitoring records should be made available.
  5. Parts that have been replaced by spares are to be retained and shown to the Surveyor.
  6. The Chief Engineer’s Statement and records will, subject to confirmatory surveys, be sufficient for the Surveyor to ‘C’ Confirmatory Credit the applicable machinery items for survey.
  7. If the Surveyor is not satisfied with the Chief Engineer’s Statement, records or operating condition, they may request that items be opened out for inspection.

NOTES:

  1. Review of maintenance and monitoring records;
  2. General examination of the machinery, under working conditions where practical;
  3. Testing of alarms, controls and safeguards.

2.1.6 Conducting classification surveys by the Continuous Survey Machinery (CSM) regime is also a prerequisite for ships operating under the ShipRight Machinery Planned Maintenance Scheme.

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