A "SEQ" here refers to the Cargo Ship Safety Equipment Certificate (SE) renewal survey (with the associated SOLAS certificates and the coordinated survey). Documents to be prepared:

• The certificate file/copies of the current Safety Equipment Certificate and associated SOLAS certificates (Safety Construction, Safety Radio).
• Approved plans/documents: Fire Control Plan, the LSA (Life-Saving Appliances) arrangements/plan, Muster list, fire drill/safety drill records, SOPEP, Garbage Management Plan, and the certificate's provided equipment inventories.
• Survey history/records: the previous survey reports, the status of repairs and any conditions of class; the record of the life-saving appliance maintenance (weekly/monthly/annual/5-yearly service records), the life raft service/dates, EPIRB/SART test records, the emergency generator/lifeboat engine test records; the general emergency alarm test records; the records of drills.
• Equipment data: the inventory/schedules of lifeboats, life rafts, life jackets, immersion suits, EPIRB (406MHz), SART (AIS-SART), and the firefighting equipment (extinguishers, fire main/pumps), and distress signals and pyrotechnics with their dates.
• The maker's/servicing station's service certificates for life rafts and appliances.
• Record/evidence of the statutory requirements met (SOLAS III) and any offshore.

• Life-saving equipment: lifeboats/rafts (ready, properly stowed, with lashings and equipment per the schedule), lifeboat engine (started and run), davits and launching appliances (tested), life jackets, immersion suits, rescue/Hi-raft, EPIRB (operational), SART, distress signals, general emergency alarm (test), and the muster/abandon ship arrangements.
• Firefighting equipment: fire main and fire pumps, fire hoses/nozzles, portable and fixed extinguishers (umps, charges/type/dates), sprinkler/fire detection system (where fitted) and its tests, the fire control plan, emergency lighting, emergency power/switchboard changeover; fire doors and watertight doors operation.
• Navigation/other: navigation lights and their emergency supply, emergency generator (start/test), battery banks, and the bridge/GMDSS-radio? (radio is a separate certificate but the SE survey checks the safety-adjacent and alarm).
• The vessel should have all equipment operational, serviced and calibrated, with physical access to test each item; the surveyor will witness the operation of pumps, starters, alarms and the lowering of survival craft points.

"Form E" typically refers to the certificate's equipment form/annex (Form E - the "Cargo Ship Safety Equipment Certificate and Record of Equipment (Form E)" ) which is the annex to the Safety Equipment Certificate recording the actual items of life-saving and fire-fighting equipment provided on board. Contents: the certificate number, ships particulars, the inventory of life-saving appliances (lifeboats, rafts, lifejackets, EPIRB, SART, etc.), the fire-fighting equipment (fire main, pumps, extinguishers, fixed systems), and their quantities actually installed, confirming they meet the prescribed standards/records of the "form" - essentially the equipment list certified by the flag/RO.

The Approved Record of Safety Equipment is the detailed schedule/record (often integrated with Form E) listing the safety equipment fitted, with their makers/type/quantity/date of the equipment and the dates of servicing/expiry - a working ledger.

How they contribute: They provide objective evidence that the ship is actually equipped with the life-saving and firefighting equipment required by SOLAS Ch. III (LSA) and II-2, at the correct quantities, and that it is maintained/serviced within dates. By certifying and recording the equipment, the Flag State/RO demonstrates compliance and enables the port State to verify the equipment and its service dates; the certificates and records are used at solar/intermediate/annual surveys and PSC inspections to confirm that the vessel can abandon ship and fight fire effectively, and any missing/expired items are identified so they can be corrected before sailing.