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RightShip Guide

THE DEEPDRAFT · RIGHTSHIP PREPARATION

Air-handling unit condition and cleaning

RISQ 15.14Section 15 · Health and Welfare of Seafarers

Applicability: Apply to the vessel’s employment, accommodation and welfare arrangements, retaining each question’s stated conditions.

What is being checked

The AHU provides comfort and has recorded cleaning and maintenance.

Ready on board

0 / 3 checked

Check the vessel’s procedures and evidence against these RISQ 3.2 points. Keep personal wages, medical records and complaint details out of public contributions.

Practice questions

Preparation prompts derived from this entry, not an official inspector interview script. Use anonymised examples without personal medical or complaint information.

1Does the source supply a fixed comfortable temperature or chemical-cleaning method?

No. It gives a maximum inspection/cleaning interval and points to MGN 38 for further guidance.

Where a finding may arise

Missing evidence, defects or gaps in familiarity against these checks may prevent a satisfactory answer. These are derived preparation concerns, not additional explicit finding criteria or reported past observations.

Past observations for practice

Anonymised reports, manually reviewed before publication. These are reported experiences, not additional inspection requirements.

No reviewed observations have been added for this entry.

Share an observation for private review

Remove vessel, company and inspector names, report numbers, exact dates and confidential information. Do not paste a complete inspection report.

Source clarification

No V/M marking is printed for this question. No chemical dose or HVAC cleaning sequence is invented.

References and source status

RightShip Inspection Ship Questionnaire, November 2025, version 3.2. Section 15, page 222, reference 15.14.

The explanation, checklist and practice answer derive from the supplied questionnaire. Reported observations are separately contributed and manually reviewed; they are not official RISQ guidance.

Independent DeepDraft preparation guide, based on the supplied RISQ 3.2 questionnaire. Not an official RightShip product or inspection report.