This course is for officers and key ratings who have not previously served on board an oil tanker. It supersedes Model Courses 1.03 and 1.05. In covering precautions and procedures for basic safety and pollution prevention, layouts of different types of tankers, types of cargo, their hazards and their handling equipment, general operational sequence and oil tanker terminology, it meets the mandatory minimum training requirements prescribed by regulation V/1 of STCW 1978, as amended in 1995.
