Safety Alert
Safety Alert 331 - Personnel Transfers by Swing Rope and Personnel Basket
Safety Alert 331 - Personnel Transfers by Swing Rope and Personnel Basket
- BSEE
- Safety Alert
- BSEE Safety Alert 331
- Lifting OperationsMarine Operations
- Drowning
- Personnel transfer
- Fitness assessmentPre-use checksSafety communicationStop-work authority
- Upstream oil and gas
- Offshore installationVessel
Summary
This alert reviews a January 2018 swing-rope transfer injury in the Gulf of Mexico and several 2017 personnel-basket and swing-rope incidents. It identifies fitness, training, technique and weather factors, and asks operators to consider hardware checks, hazard discussions, stop-work authority and fitness-for-duty requirements.
Classifications: Drowning; man overboard; person overboard.
Classifications: Personnel transfer; crew transfer.
Classifications: Fitness assessment.
Classifications: Pre-use checks; pre-use inspection.
Classifications: Safety communication; toolbox talk; toolbox talks.
Classifications: Stop-work authority; stop work; stop-work intervention.
Classifications: Upstream oil and gas; oil and gas extraction; upstream petroleum.
Classifications: Offshore installation; offshore platform; offshore rig.
Classifications: Vessel; aboard ship; onboard vessel.
Summary
The alert addresses offshore personnel transfers using swing ropes and personnel baskets.
BSEE Safety Alert 331. Themes: lifting operations, marine operations.