As an EN1 or ENC you are required to establish or maintain a training program for your work center personnel. In this program you are required to teach the proper methods of equip-ment operation, repair, and safety. You should use all the materials available to you including teaching aids (manufacturers technical manuals, instructions, or rate training manuals). In addi-tion, you should know what schools are available to your workers and should try to get quotas for them (i.e., EN A or C, or A/C&R). In recent years, one of the best ways to check on how well personnel retain the information be-ing taught in your training program has been the use of the Personnel Qualification Standard PQS).

A PQS is a written list of knowledge and skills that are required to qualify for a specific watch-station, maintain a specific equipment or system, or perform as a team member within an assigned unit. The PQS program is a method for qualifying personnel to perform their assigned duties. Most Standards are divided into four sections: Fundamentals, Systems, Watchstations, and a Qualification Card. The Fundamentals section contains the facts, principles, and fundamentals concerning the subject for which a person is qualifying.

The Systems section deals with the major working parts of the installation, organization, or equipment with which the PQS is concerned. The Watchstation section defines the actual duties, assignments, and responsibilities needed for qualification. The Qualification Card has questions that match those in the Watchstation section and provides a space for the supervisors or the qualifying officers signature.

Not only your work center personnel must qualify under PQS but also you must qualify on all equipment under your control, in addition to the Maintenance and Material Management (3-M) System, and General Damage Control. Lets look at one of the requirements for an EN1 or ENC under PQS and the Engineman Occupational Standards, NAVPERS 18068-D. The requirement calls for you to supervise a damage control party. As an engineer you will probably be assigned to Repair 5 (propulsion repair) for a general quarters station. Repair 5 usually has an engineering department officer or the chief petty officer in charge. The damage control party you must supervise is composed of an electrical officer (or senior Electricians Mate) and a broad cross section of engineering ratings. Emphasis on assignment of personnel to Repair 5 is placed on fireroom and engineroom takeover qualifications rather than damage control qualifications. On larger ships, Repair 5 may be split. Each half of the party is assigned one-half of the engineering plant so that maximum use of manpower and equipment, and greater dispersal of personnel may be realized. Each section of the repair party is assigned sufficiently qualified engineering casualty control and damage control personnel.

Although your main function is for engineroom and fireroom takeover, your repair party must still be able to function as a damage control repair party if the need arises. Being the leader, you must be familiar with all the equipment used and the function of each. You must train your personnel in the use of the equipment and the functions of a repair party. Following is a list of functions which are common to all repair parties:

1. Each party must be capable of making repairs to electrical and sound-powered telephone circuits.

2. Each party must be capable of giving first aid and transporting injured personnel to battle dressing stations without seriously reducing the damage control capabilities of the repair party.

3. Each party must be capable of detecting, identifying, and measuring dose and dose-rate intensities from radiological involvement, and of surveying and decontaminating contaminated personnel and areas, except where specifically as-signed to another department as in the case of nuclear weapons accident/incident.

4. Each party must be capable of sampling and/or identifying biological or chemical agents, and of decontaminating areas and personnel affected as a result of biological or chemical at-tack, except where this responsibility is assigned to the medical department.

5. Each party must be capable of controlling and extinguishing all types of fires.

6. Each party must be organized to evaluate and report correctly the extent of damage in its area.

This will include maintaining:

Deck plans showing locations of NBC contamination, battle dressing and personnel cleaning stations, and safe routes to them.

A casualty board for visual display of structural damage.

A graphic display board showing damage and action taken to correct disrupted or damaged systems. The use of standard control symbology and the accompanying preprinted message format are recommended to facilitate recording transmitted damage control information.

Use the standard control symbology shown in figure 2-17 to read the message format in figure 2-18. In reading this message you should have come up with the following information: An 8-inch hole, 4 feet up from the deck at frame 38, starboard side of compartment 2-35-0-L.

Some of the specific functions for which Repair 5 is responsible in its own assigned area are listed below:

1. Maintenance of stability and buoyancy members of the repair party must be:

a. Stationed so that they can reach all parts of their assigned area with a minimum opening of watertight closures.

b. Able to repair damage to structures, closures, or fittings that are designed to maintain watertight integrity, by shoring, plugging, welding, caulking the bulkheads and decks, reset-ting valves, and blanking or plugging lines through watertight subdivisions of the ship.

c. Be prepared to sound, drain, pump, counterflood, or shift liquids in tanks, voids, or other compartments; and be thoroughly familiar with the location and use of all equipment and methods of action.

d. Maintain two status boards for accurate evaluation of underwater damage: the Stability Status Board (Flooding Effects Diagram) to be used for visual display of all flooding, flooding boundaries, corrective measures taken, and effects on list and trim; the Liquid Load Status Board to show the current status of all fuel and water tanks and the soundings of each tank in feet and inches.

2. Maintenance of ships propulsion the personnel in the repair party must be able to:

a. Maintain, make repairs, or isolate damage to main propulsion machinery and boilers.

b. Operate, repair, isolate, and modify the segregation of vital systems.

c. Assist in the operation and repair of the steering control systems.

d. Assist in the maintenance and repair of communications systems.

e. Assist Repairs 1, 2, 3, and 4 and the crash and salvage team when required.

Figure 2-17.Navy Standard Damage Control Symbology.

Figure 2-17.Navy Standard Damage Control SymbologyContinued.

Figure 2-17.Navy Standard Damage Control SymbologyContinued.