| Emergency generator routine run and load test | Weekly (class/PMS-set) | Class rules and the vessel's planned maintenance system under the ISM Code. No IMO instrument setting this interval was located. | Weekly applies to the routine run; the load test follows the maker's schedule and the PMS |
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| Emergency generator automatic start, changeover and blackout test | Annual (blackout: class-set) | Class rules, witnessed inside the survey window set by SOLAS Reg. I/10 for cargo ships or Reg. I/7 for passenger ships. Class decides when a blackout and dead-ship recovery test is witnessed, commonly at renewal survey. SOLAS Regs. II-1/43 and II-1/44 set the capability, not the interval. | On a cargo ship with no transitional source fitted, the set must be automatically started and supply the required load within a maximum of 45 seconds; re-run after any change to the generator plant |
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| Thermographic survey of switchboards and busbars | Annual (owner-set) | No IMO or class interval. Set by the owner's PMS, an insurer's condition, or a class condition-monitoring scheme; procedure to ISO 18434-1. | Boards must be energised and carrying representative load, or the survey shows nothing |
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| Insulation resistance, polarisation index and monitoring device test | Annual | Class rules and the machine maker's schedule set the interval. IEEE 43 sets the polarisation-index method, not the interval. SOLAS Reg. II-1/45 requires the insulation monitoring device on a distribution system with no connection to earth, and an audible or visual indication of abnormally low insulation values — not a test interval. | Also before re-energising after flooding, wetting or fire; the device functional test is separate from crew PMS readings |
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| Protection relay and circuit breaker testing | Maker's schedule | The switchgear manufacturer's maintenance schedule, and class rules where the board is surveyed. IEC 60092-202 governs protection design, not testing frequency. | Commonly ordered at renewal survey when the boards are open; discrimination re-checked after any distribution change |
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| Engine-room alarm, monitoring and shutdown system test | Annual | Class rules at the annual survey; the automation notation (UMS / E0 / AUT) sets what is tested and witnessed. No IMO instrument setting this interval was located. | Point-by-point alarm test and shutdown verification against the approved set-point list; repeated after any control-system change |
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| Emergency and escape-route lighting test | Annual | Class rules at the annual survey. Endurance is fixed by SOLAS Reg. II-1/43 for cargo ships — 3 hours at muster and embarkation stations and over the sides, 18 hours for alleyway, stairway, exit, machinery-space and control-station lighting — and by Reg. II-1/42 for passenger ships (36 hours, which the Administration may reduce to not less than 12 hours for ships regularly engaged on short voyages). | |
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| Low-location lighting examination and luminance test (passenger ships over 36 passengers) | Weekly visual; luminance test at least every 5 years (passenger ships) | Passenger ships only. SOLAS Reg. II-2/13.3.2.5.1 requires the marking and refers its evaluation, testing and application to the FSS Code Ch. 11, which points in turn to IMO Res. A.752(18). Those guidelines apply to passenger ships carrying more than 36 passengers and are written as recommendations: §9.1 that all LLL systems be visually examined and checked at least once a week with a record kept, §9.2 that luminance be tested at least once every five years with readings taken on site. ISO 15370 carries the measurement method. Nothing here is set for a cargo ship. | Over 30% of readings failing the guideline values: replace; 20–30%: re-check within a year or replace (§9.2) |
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| Battery bank and UPS capacity test | Annual | Class rules and the battery manufacturer's schedule set the interval. The endurance a discharge test is measured against follows the duty the bank serves: SOLAS Reg. II-1/43 (18 hours) for a cargo ship's emergency source, Reg. II-1/42 (36 hours) for a passenger ship's, and SOLAS Reg. IV/13.2 (1 hour where an emergency source complying with Reg. II-1/42 or II-1/43 is fitted, otherwise 6 hours) for the GMDSS reserve source. UPS autonomy is set by the equipment supplied, not by SOLAS Reg. II-1/43. | The GMDSS reserve source of energy is tested at the radio survey under SOLAS Reg. I/9 — a flag-State function, not part of this attendance. |
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| Ex equipment inspection in classified areas | Risk-based, periodic | IEC 60079-17 sets the inspection regime and grade for electrical installations in explosive atmospheres. The interval follows a documented assessment of the expected rate of deterioration, and an interval longer than three years has to be justified by that assessment. | Grades: visual, close, detailed. Send the hazardous-area classification drawing and the vessel's Ex register |
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| ICCP system check, afloat | Annual | Class rules and the ICCP maker's schedule. SOLAS Reg. I/10 governs the bottom inspection, not the power unit. | Power unit output, reference-electrode readings, anode cable continuity and shaft earthing slip-ring, ship afloat |
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| Sacrificial anode and hull potential survey | Class- or owner-set; taken at the bottom inspection | SOLAS Reg. I/10 sets the bottom-inspection cycle for cargo ships — a minimum of two inspections of the outside of the ship's bottom during the five-year period of validity of the certificate, with no more than 36 months between any two. SOLAS sets nothing for ICCP or anodes: that survey is class- or owner-ordered and is taken while the hull is accessible, which is why it follows the bottom-inspection window rather than a cycle of its own. Whether an in-water survey may stand in for a drydock bottom inspection is a matter for the Administration and class, not something Reg. I/10 provides for. | Anode wastage and reference-electrode condition checked while the hull is accessible |
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| Annual survey, main and emergency electrical installation | Annual, ±3 months of the anniversary date | SOLAS Reg. I/10 sets the annual survey for cargo ships — within three months before or after each anniversary date; Reg. I/7 sets the 12-month cycle for passenger ships. Class rules set what of the electrical installation is examined and tested. | The window is six months wide; most annual items above are ordered inside it, on one attendance |
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| Intermediate and renewal survey, electrical installation | 2nd or 3rd anniversary (±3 months); renewal ≤5 years | SOLAS Reg. I/10 for cargo ships — intermediate survey within three months before or after the second or the third anniversary date, renewal survey at intervals not exceeding five years. SOLAS Reg. I/14 caps the cargo ship safety certificates at five years; a Passenger Ship Safety Certificate is issued for not more than 12 months. Class rules set what is examined and tested. | Class rules set the test content of both surveys |
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