Archive for 'Personal Health' Category
Lifeboat Fall Preventer Devices (FPD’s)
A video from the UK MCA showing the benefits of fitting and using Fall Preventer Devices (FPD’s) to lifeboat on-load release hooks … FPD’s are discusssed in our ‘Lifeboat Drills – Preparing for Safety‘ DVD. The film discusses the importance of carrying out, attending and learning from regular and safe lifeboat drills and includes [...]
Costa Concordia – the Human Element.
The following article is taken directly from ‘The Ship Repair Newsletter’ (No: 1389), published weekly by A&A Thorpe (shipaat@aol.com) . The opinion expressed is close to my own feelings on the subject, hence my decision to publish the text: “The Costa Concordia has been on her side against the Italian island of Giglio for about [...]
The Walport Safety Training website – a new look!
If you’ve had a look around before you got to the blog pages, you’ll have noticed that we’ve made a few changes to the website, making it easier to use for our visitors. The first thing you’ll notice is the new front page, which we’ve tidied up to not only look more presentable but to [...]
Maritime Risk Assessment training for Hot Work
The latest training DVD from walport looks at the subject of Risk Assessment, and in particular how it should be applied when undertaking any Hot Work onboard. ‘Assessing Risk: Hot Work’ is designed to make crew appreciate not just how to carry out a Risk Assessment, but more importantly why they should do it. Using a 3D [...]
Making sure your children have fun safely this summer …
There is a point to this whether you’re a parent, you’re in maritime H&S or you’re otherwise responsible for safety and ‘risk assessment’ … Background While I’m not a parent myself, I’m ’Uncle Chris’ to some wonderful children and I know that there are few things better than seeing a child having fun and being happy, which makes something [...]
Safety Barriers – they’re there for a reason …
This very short clip amply demonstrates why you should never duck under a safety barrier … httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALDW8szvBbU Luckily no one was injured, apart from their pride!
VDU safety
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peMQbqT2HBw This video from Vodafone shows, in the simplest of ways, the kind of things you should watch for when setting up a work station, or when using your laptop. While it’s not directly maritime related, we all use computers these days, so it has an application across our industry, in the office, onboard and at home. [...]
The SafeSpace project – making Confined Space entry Safer …
I’d like to draw the attention of anyone who is not yet aware of it yet to the SafeSpace Project. To quote the introduction by Bob Couttie, the projects organiser … SafeSpace is a free project to reduce the unacceptable toll upon seafarers of confined space hazards. It aims to bring together those in the [...]
Free safety posters
Walport Maritime Training FIlms are pleased to announce the release of a series of twelve free safety awareness posters, available for download from our website. Based on our new ‘Think! First’ series of short training films, there are twelve available. You are free to download and print these for use in safety meetings and for display on your [...]
Think First!
The ‘Think! FIRST’ film is a series of short training scenarios designed to encourage crew to think about their own safety while they’re going about their work. Each scenario looks at a specific task or risk area and our trainer goes through the most basic precautions necessary to prevent an injury or accident. Presented by [...]