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The challenge of offshore liftingIn terms of ensuring high standards of health and safety, the offshore and sub-sea sectors have always represented unusually challenging environments. However, practical guidance is readily available.- Look below the hook for more efficient overhead liftingTo ensure both the safety and efficiency of lifting operations, it is important not to overlook the most straightforward items.
- Making sense of competenceThe LEEA has launched the TEAM card scheme, designed to ensure that only genuinely 'competent' engineers are permitted to test, examine and maintain overhead lifting equipment.
- Is your lifting equipment out of control?Regular in-service inspections and periodic thorough examinations are essential to maintain the continued integrity of all lifting equipment.
- Training demands more than lip serviceLOLER 1998 established a modern, risk-based approach to lifting. Whilst it focused attention on the need for training, in practice the results have been mixed.
- Choosing the right solution is criticalSince the introduction of manual handling regulations in 1992, there has been a significant increase in the use of lifting equipment. Rigorous specification is therefore vital.
- Planning is the key to a safer liftStatistics from HSE suggest that lifting-related accidents are in decline... however incidents directly related to overhead lifting are among the leading causes of fatal and major accidents in the UK workplace.
- The right approach to ensuring safe lifting equipmentWith a history that stretches back to the construction of the Pyramids, lifting equipment is still an integral part of the modern manufacturing environment.
