Walport Maritime Training Films: The affordable way to promote fleet safety!
- One-off purchase allows you to manage your budget – no contracts, no recurring rental costs
- Contributes towards loss prevention
- The ideal supplement to existing training methods - fleet discounts available
- Increase crew awareness of key safety & environmental issues
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 allow access to all the main pages of the site. From here you can get to the newly organised catalogue pages which are now much easier to navigate through and have new product images.
There is a new page on the website now that discusses the benefits of our Company Specific Training (CST) option, allowing you to consider the idea of using targeted training for your crews as opposed to buying ‘off the shelf’ solutions. Depending on the size of your fleet and the financing option you choose, this can not only be a very effective way of providing training, but extremely cost-effective.
Another key improvement is that our site now works across a broad range of devices, not just on a desktop browser. However, if you find a mobile or other device that makes a mess of our new layout, please let us know and we’ll try and sort the problem.
You can get our complete catalogue in PDF format for easy offline viewing as well as our twelve free ‘Think! FIRST’ safety posters from the Downloads page. All we ask is that you enter your email address, which we may use to update you on offers and new freebies occasionally. And when we say occasionally, we mean no more than once a month, and you can unsubscribe at any time.
We hope you enjoy the new look website and we’re sure that you’ll find something of interest. If there’s something you’d like to see amended or added, please do let us know.
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 animation we follow a real life accident to show how even an apparently simple hot work task can end in tragedy if the risks involved aren’t considered beforehand.
One of the key learning points from the film is that a Risk Assessment is your ‘Thinking Time’ – it gives you the time to consider the hazards and risks involved before you start work.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jY-msnpJuhE
The film looks at how to correctly carry out a Risk Assessment and explains why each step is important. This includes a discussion of the key terms used, as there is frequently a misunderstanding of the terminology.
- Risk Assessment is your ‘Thinking Time’
- Stop and take a look at the job, before you start!
- Understand the three steps of a successful Risk Assessment: Identify the Hazards, Estimate the Risk of these hazards, Eliminate or Control the Risk
- Understand the terms ‘Hazard’ and ‘Risk’, so you have a better understanding of what it is you’re assessing
- Change Management – if the job changes, stop and re-assess the situation.
For more information and to order your copy online please click here.
The DVD includes the following language subtitles - Chinese, English, French, Greek, Hindi, (Brazilian) Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog as well as 12 free safety posters and a training guide to assist the Safety Officer in making a presentation using the film. Preview copies are available on request for fleet managers.
Like all our training films, fleet discounts are available for multiple-copy orders – please contact Nick Brown directly for a quote. Call our Tilbury office on +44 (0)1375 489 792 or email sales@walport.com.
Somewhere in the North Sea …
Somewhere in the North Sea …
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScD4IGbn9cY
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 I read this morning all the more harrowing. I would never attempt to prevent a child from doing something exciting, thrilling, maybe even dangerous, as long as those responsible (be it myself or others I trust with the task) have taken all reasonable steps to ensure they come home safely at the end of the day. Wrapping little ones in cotton wool is not what I’m about. Keeping them alive, is.
People who work in Health and Safety have a reputation for being boring whingers, totally risk averse and guaranteed to spoil anything that remotely resembles fun, especially for children. I know this, because I’ve seen the looks I get when I dare to raise the subject, particularly with parents. I think there’s probably an element of truth to this perception, but I ask you to consider for a moment the case of an unfortunate eleven year old girl and her family …
Overhead Powerlines?
Overhead powerlines are rarely an issue in the world of maritime safety, but this particular video is too good not to share.
I think you’ll agree that this clearly demonstrates the dangers of working near any live electrical source, not just overhead power lines. While we concentrate on maritime safety here at Walport, this is worth sharing regardless of it’s land based origins.
The stairs, or the escalator?
When it comes to keeping fit, most of us could do with using the stairs more often. I know I almost always use the escalator …
While this is clearly not a practical full-time alternative and certainly not on a working vessel, it might give you something to think about … Maybe I’ll use the stairs tomorrow morning.
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!
Seafarer Fatigue
This is an excellent film from the researchers at Cardiff Universty on the subject of Seafarer Fatigue …
The original source of this film is HERE … where you can also download a copy of the research paper that the film is based on. This is well worth watching for anyone with an interest in fatigue, it’s causes and effects in the maritime industry.
Please note that Walport did not have any part in the production of this film, nor do we distribute it. I’m sharing the link simply because it deserves to be seen by as wide an audience as possible.
SIRC Symposium 2011, Cardiff
My colleague Nick Brown and I attended the Seafarers International Research Centre (SIRC) Symposium last week in Cardiff, UK. The event was well attended, as you can see below, with faces from the maritime safety community present from around the globe.
The 2011 SIRC Symposium group photo
SIRC do a considerable amount of valuable research work of both academic and, perhaps more ipmortantly practical benefit to the maritime community. I stringly recommend that you take a look at their website and some of the publications that they have freely available.
You can download a copy of the guide for this years event by clicking the image below …
Luckily, I’m near the back in the group photo, so you can’t see me …
Save Our Seafarers campaign
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