Personal-Injury-Prevention-Building-A-Safety-Culture FINAL
0 (0 Likes / 0 Dislikes)
[MUSIC PLAYING]
To work effectively ships and
their crews must work safely.
Developing a safety culture
will prevent personal injuries
on-board ships.
It's not only the safe
and smart way to operate,
it's also mandatory.
Running a safe ship is
important to those who own it,
to those who man
it, and to those who
entrust it with their cargo.
It's also an
important new emphasis
of the revised STCW
convention and the ISM code.
Specifically the
ISM code requires
ship owners and managers to
develop a safety management
system that will provide
for safe practices
and ship operation, establish
safeguards against risk,
and continuously improve
safety management skills.
In this program, we will feature
the insight and commentary
of author Richard Bracken,
whose book Personal Injury
Prevention, A Guide
To Good Practice
sets out the basic steps in
building a true safety culture
on-board ship.
The worst way to do it is
just to put a set of manuals
on-board the ship and say,
follow these procedures
and everything will be fine.
Because take it from
me, it won't be.
What it really is about is
giving the people on the ship
the ownership of the procedures.
Let them have a part
of it when you're
developing the procedures.
Go around the ship with them,
take the people on board
and take them to show you
what safe practice is.
It's an evolving process.
Turn it on by flipping
this switch here.
We'll identify the six items of
personal protective equipment
recommended for
individual protection.
We will discuss
the way ships could
prevent accidents and
injuries before they happen.
And we'll see examples of the
safe use of on-board tools
and equipment.
How serious is the business
of personal injury prevention?
P&I clubs estimate that
after cargo claims,
personal injury
and illness claims
are their second largest
category of claims registered,
accounting for more than
a third of the total.
To dramatize the
seriousness of this issue
we're going to introduce you
to a couple of characters
that are not quite so
serious, to contrast
the good and the bad.
Naw, safety, schmafety.
Come on.
No element of personal
injury prevention
is as crucial as what happens
before the work even begins,
work planning.
So if you got any
questions about what
you're supposed to be doing come
see me 'cause it's all up here.
I've done this 100 times before.
I'll tell you, I've been on
this ship and ships like it
for years.
No matter how many
times you've done it,
you still need to plan it.
What's the plan?
Well I'll tell you what,
you know what to do today?
Well, am I going to
paint, am I going
to sand, what am I going to do?
Well then you're coming with
me, I'll put you to work.
All right.
Forget this planning nonsense.
It's all up here.
But as you know, last
time you had a problem--
Effective planning
starts at the top.
The daily work planning
meeting attended
by senior officers, the
ship board safety officer,
and the bosun assigns
roles and responsibilities.
The aim of the planning
team is to organize the work
before doing the work,
with safety firmly in mind.
But I just want to make
sure that all the guys are
wearing either ear
plugs or the ear muffs.
That's the biggest message
about work planning is,
it's the stepping back.
What are we going to do?
What tasks are we
going to undertake?
What factors have
we got to consider?
Daily work planning
involves job allocation,
taking into account individual
skills, equipment needs,
interdepartmental
coordination, job procedures,
and preparing a daily work plan.
When is the [INAUDIBLE]
going to be on?
Yeah.
What?
I polished the floor.
What?
I'm polishing the deck.
What?
One of the very best
reasons for planning
your work ahead of
time is how hard
it is to plan it on the spot.
Lack of planning allows room
for sloppiness, confusion,
accidents, and of
course injuries.
Aaaagh
[BIRDS CHIRPING]
--a well planed way.
A good crew follows the
daily work planning meeting
with a more detailed
departmental meeting
to go over specifics.
--fuel pumps off and you
have some kind of a pan
underneath to catch all the
excess fuel and so forth.
The departmental
meeting deals in detail
with correct procedures,
staff, and safety concerns.
And in the case of work that
might be especially hazardous,
many ships use the
permit to work system.
This system requires written
procedures and authorization
for potentially hazardous
tasks like hot work,
electrical maintenance,
work aloft or over-side,
an entry into enclosed spaces.
Essentially this
switchboard will kill you.
If we open this panel
put our hands in there,
we'll just going to
come back and find out
where do we take the body.
You don't get second chances
with 440 volt power systems.
So that's a classic
environment where I would want
to see a permit to work system.
Work planning and
permit to work systems
are based on good
communication, team input,
and the use of daily work plans
and written authorizations.
A few minutes spent planning
add focus and discipline
to the work that follows.
It's a structured
way of doing it,
and it makes the people at
the top actually step back
and think about the job as well.
Instead of the chief
engineer just saying,
OK boys, go down and work
on the main switchboard,
and then going off and
doing something else,
it focuses his mind, and thus
everybody else in his team,
that we've got to take into
account the true safety
implications.
Personal injury
prevention begins
with personal
protective equipment.
In this segment, we'll
talk about safety gear
and how and when to use it.
Are you ready?
Ready, OK, I'm going to go
get my safety equipment,
I'm going to get my gloves.
You don't need gloves.
What about my coveralls?
You don't need coveralls.
I'm going to need
my safety goggles.
No goggles.
What about my helmet?
Nah, safety schmafety.
Come on.
[RRRINNGG]
Well, what are you waiting for?
We're all familiar with
personal protective equipment,
sometimes too familiar.
We often take it for granted
or use it improperly.
In personal protective
equipment, PPE,
there are six
absolute essentials,
boilersuits or coveralls,
steel toe capped safety shoes,
safety helmets or hard hats,
ear protection, gloves,
and goggles.
It's not enough to
simply say, here is
a boilersuit and a hard
hat, go away and wear it.
There's a way to
wear these things,
and there's a way that you
could jeopardize your safety
by thinking you're
wearing equipment that's
going to help you,
and actually it
could be doing you
more harm than good.
Boilersuits provide
protection from dirt, oils,
and potential hazards,
and at the very least
they keep clothing
clean and protected.
They should be fastened
at the neck and wrists,
and be washed and repaired when
they become dirty or damaged.
Boilersuits should
be worn at all times
when working outside the living
areas of the accommodation.
Safety shoes must have steel
toe caps for protection
from impact injuries,
have anti-slip soles,
and be oil and chemical
resistant in case of spills.
Use steel toe rubber
boots for wet work.
Safety shoes should
be worn any time
you're working outside
the accommodation,
including work in galleys,
stores, and refrigeration
spaces.
Safety helmets should be
worn whenever you're working
outside the accommodation.
Some examples include during
mooring, at emergency stations,
during storing and
lifting operations, cargo
and bunkering operations,
and for all engine room
maintenance.
But whenever you're on the
job a safety helmet is vital.
It's a physical
hard hat, there's
the inlaid lining and
structure of the hat.
We've got heavy
mounted ear defenders,
chin straps, all these parts of
it, alone without the webbing
it's a hazard.
It's no different
to just wearing
a piece of plastic
on top of your head.
Safety helmets provide
personal protection
from bumps, knocks,
and falling objects.
It's not just the plastic,
it's the webbing too.
Ear protection should always
be worn near loud machinery,
in engine rooms, hydraulic
rooms, fan and pump
rooms, and compressor,
refrigeration,
and cranes spaces.
As a rule of thumb, if you
can't converse normally,
like in this environment,
then you should
be wearing ear protection.
One of the most common injuries
in the maritime industry
is hearing loss.
The solution is ear
protection, preferably built
into the safety helmet itself.
Leather palm gloves are
good for general duty
work around the ship.
Use approved rubber gloves
when working with chemicals,
heat resistant gloves or
gauntlets for hot work,
and approved insulated rubber
gloves for electrical work.
Gloves should be worn
whenever their use
will help prevent injury.
Remember, there
are different types
of gloves suitable
for different tasks.
Goggles, or other
approved eye protection,
is essential when operating
machine tools, handling
chemicals, welding, pressure
washing, grinding, chipping
and blasting.
Approved eye protection is
mandatory whenever there's
a risk of injury to the eyes.
Be aware that there are
hazards in places you might not
be looking for them, such
as mooring and anchoring
operations.
To review then,
there are six items
of personal protective
equipment that
should be mandatory,
boilersuits, steel toe cap
safety shoes, safety helmets,
ear protection, gloves,
and goggles.
There's also plenty of
specialized safety equipment
you should be
familiar with and know
how to use as the
job at hand requires.
Including safety harnesses
and belts, flotation aids,
heat resistant clothing,
dust masks and respirators,
fire suits, and chemical suits.
Immediately we can see
that they're telling us
hard hats is a
priority for everyone.
We're wearing hard hats here.
We want people
wearing gloves, and we
want people wearing safety foot
ware, anti-slip soles, steel
toe caps, protective foot ware.
Wearing personal protective
equipment is a good start,
but communicating and sharing
information about safety
will actually help you
anticipate and prevent
accidents and injuries
before they occur.
Going beyond simple
protection is called
building a safety culture.
That's next.
Safety isn't simply a set
of rules and regulations,
or even the equipment
we just looked at,
it's a continuous process where
we look to learn and improve.
We call it building
a safety culture,
and it's a far cry
from business as usual
and the way things used to be.
You think you've got things,
aw mate, I'll tell you,
I've done a lot harder
work than this ship.
I've had waves crashing against
the deck, 30 to 40 feet high.
You won't be able to change
anything on-board ship,
unless you can change
individual behaviors,
and that may take some work.
So you've got it easy, this
is an easy life for you.
You have never had
it easier than this.
I've worked hard all me life.
You're wrong
The basis for any safety culture
is individual responsibility
and accountability, personal
hygiene, cleanliness, pride
in yourself and your ship.
Most mariners will
tell you there's
a relationship between good
housekeeping on-board ship
and ship safety.
Consider this fact, 45% of all
personal injuries on-board ship
are simple slips and falls.
Building a safety culture
requires a team effort.
With each and every
individual officer or crewman
working towards the same goal.
It's not do this way and
everything will be OK.
If somebody, a junior
officer, comes up to you,
or a crew member comes
up to you and says,
I think we could help if
we changed it this way,
don't dismiss it out of hand.
The procedures say
this is what we
do, listen to what
they're saying,
because these guys do it every
day of their working life.
And they probably know a
damn sight more about it,
than we do just
writing down rules.
A safety culture
begins with commitment
from the very top of the
shipping organization.
It's a four step process
of continuous improvement
and corrective action driven
by the senior officers
and the designated
safety officer.
--know make sure when
you're chipping at it--
Step one is identifying
the size of the problem.
Talk about safety, near
misses, accidents, hazards.
Work together to get a sense
of what works and what doesn't.
However you do that,
whether you do it
in terms of lost time
injuries, whether you
do in terms of accidents
on-board ship, whatever
method you use, you have to
establish what size of problem
you have and what particular
problems you're facing.
Step two is providing the
correct equipment and training.
We've identified the correct
personal protective equipment.
Get it, learn it, and use it.
It's not just give
them the equipment
and say, go away and
wear this equipment.
It's showing people how to
wear it, when to use it,
when is the right place for
a certain type of glove,
or when should you wear
your ear defenders.
Educating people, education
and training has to be the key.
Step three is making
safety a priority.
Actions speak louder than words.
When safety is a priority aboard
ship the culture will change.
It becomes a
natural progression.
It's not, stop, what should I
think about safety, you know,
what factors should
I now consider?
After a while it just becomes
second nature, it's automatic.
Step four is developing
a reporting system.
Continuous improvement is
based on good communication,
sorting out what works and
what doesn't and taking
corrective action.
It's getting a picture
of what's happening
on board the ship, so a near
miss, accident reporting.
An accident is any
unforeseen incident,
it doesn't necessarily
result in injury.
So there's various stages,
there's the near miss,
there's the accident,
there's the injury, and still
far too often, fatality.
Safety is everybody's
concern, every day.
It begins with each
of us individually,
yet it affects the
welfare of all of us.
Building a safety culture
saves lives and saves property.
It begins with
good work planning,
and the proper use of
personal protective equipment.
If you're conscious
of safety, you'll
improve working conditions and
your whole ship will benefit.
[MUSIC PLAYING]