The MCA recommends that the manual steering be tested at least once a day and before entering areas where caution is required. During this test, the wheel (or equivalent) should be engaged and the ship steered by hand.

An average adjuster. They can advise on choice of a port of refuge and on persons to notify.

(1) A four-category system of categorisation for NLSs (categories X, Y, Z and Other Substances) replaces the old five-category system (categories A, B, C, D and Appendix III).